New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and take into account health ...

A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial ...

Clinical obesity is a chronic disease affecting ... a professor of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a Northwestern Medicine physician. One way to change the ...

Currently, obesity is defined as a BMI of 30 or ... an endocrinologist at Chicago-based Northwestern University and one of the report authors, told NPR News. The report was authored by 58 experts ...

A new report noted that body mass index does not provide a nuanced enough assessment of health as it relates to weight ...

Children who respond well to pediatric obesity treatment have markedly lower ... Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, in New York City, discussed the study ...

The new definitions are likely to be confusing, said Kate Bauer, a nutrition expert at the University of ... Overhauling the ...

a commissioner and professor of medicine and medical education at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, in an interview with ABC news. Clinical obesity, by contrast, involves ...

The current BMI-based measure of obesity can both overestimate and underestimate how much body fat a person has, explains Dr.