Our reframing acknowledges the nuanced reality of obesity and allows for personalized care,” said Dr. Francesco Rubino of ...
An international commission made the case for focusing on body fat quantity and the illnesses people experience.
Body Mass Index, or BMI, has long been criticized as an unreliable method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts ...
Novo Nordisk said a higher dose of its drug Wegovy led to greater weight loss in patients during a late-stage trial, but the ...
Commenting on the commission, Dr Kath McCullough, special adviser on obesity at the Royal College of Physicians, said: “For ...
The way obesity is diagnosed needs to become more sophisticated, an international commission has concluded. Using body-mass ...
The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology published its Commission on the definition and diagnostic criteria of clinical obesity.
The Lancet, a global medical journal that works with academics to identify issues in public health, hosted a Commission on ...
A panel of health experts looking at obesity announced that the definition of the condition should be split into two ...
Despite evidence that some people with excess adiposity have ill health due to obesity, obesity is generally considered a ...