Commenting on the commission, Dr Kath McCullough, special adviser on obesity at the Royal College of Physicians, said: “For ...
Overweight scores continue from 25-30. And over 30 is obese. Quetelet merely used this early calculation as a descriptor. He did not make any medical proclamations. The Quetelet Index became ...
People are being “overdiagnosed” with obesity, leading medics have warned as they called for a “reframing” of the way the ...
An international team of doctors proposed a new way to define obesity that's not based solely on BMI. Here's what they ...
Most people know that body fat stored around the midsection can spell disaster for cardiovascular health. But Harvard ...
A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial ...
New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and also take into account health ...
People are being “overdiagnosed” with obesity, leading medics have warned as they called for a “reframing” of the way the condition is diagnosed. Academics have suggested that a body mass ...
People are being “overdiagnosed” with obesity, leading medics have warned as they called for a “reframing” of the way the condition is diagnosed. Academics have suggested that a body mass ...