A global Commission, published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology and endorsed by more than 75 medical organizations ...

Despite evidence that some people with excess adiposity have ill health due to obesity, obesity is generally considered a ...

A larger body doesn’t necessarily mean you have ‘clinical obesity’, according to a proposed new definition of the disease.

The way obesity is diagnosed needs to become more sophisticated, an international commission has concluded.Using body-mass ...

Published in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology journal and endorsed by over 75 medical organisations, including the All ...

New report by The Lancet released Wednesday has suggested adopting measures apart from body mass index (BMI) to determine ...

An international and widely supported group of experts is pushing doctors to avoid the exclusive use of BMI to decide whether ...

The revised definition, published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology 1 on 14 January, focuses on how excess body fat, a ...

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Is obesity a disease or a risk factor for disease? In medical circles – and outside of them – the question is contentious, ...

Aerobic exercise and mind-body exercise were associated with significant improvements in sleep efficiency, relative to control.

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