A larger body doesn’t necessarily mean you have ‘clinical obesity’, according to a proposed new definition of the disease.
BMI falls short as a way to measure obesity. Doctors need to also determine whether body fat harms a person's health.
Over one billion people in the world are estimated to have obesity. Some experts believe its treatment and diagnosis need a ...
A crude measure of weight relative to height, BMI is commonly used to diagnose obesity—even though many experts and ...