New obesity criteria that add waist and body fat measures to BMI could classify nearly 70% of U.S. adults as obese, according ...

A new definition of obesity could nearly double the prevalence of U.S. adults with the condition, a new study published ...

For years, medical experts have defined obesity primarily based on body mass index, which measures stored fat by calculating height and weight, to determine a person’s health risks. Major public ...

It’s estimated more than one billion people in the world are living with obesity as defined by the current definition that relies solely on body mass index or BMI. Now health care experts say one-size ...

The prevalence of obesity was 75.2% among adults in the U.S. when new criteria proposed by The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission was used to diagnose the disease, researchers reported in a ...

JAMA study shows more than 75% of American adults could qualify as obese under revised criteria - Anadolu Ajansı ...

A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial body mass index and hoping to better identify people who need treatment for ...

Scientists have proposed a simple new definition for "metabolically healthy obesity" to identify individuals who do not have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) death and total mortality ...