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For years, medical experts have defined obesity primarily based on body mass index, which measures stored fat by calculating ...

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An international team of doctors proposed a new way to define obesity that's not based solely on BMI. Here's what they ...

Instead of using the controversial body mass index, or BMI, to assess weight, an international group of scientists proposes ...

BMI is therefore an imperfect tool to help us diagnose obesity. The goal of the Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission on the Definition and Diagnosis of Clinical Obesity was to develop an ...

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These patients don't have ongoing illness, but they do have an increased risk for clinical obesity as well as other health problems like type 2 diabetes, heart problems, and certain cancers ...

“The whole goal of this is to get a more precise definition so that we are targeting the people ... Washington and one of the 58 authors of the report published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology ...

The current, blanket definition means too many people are ... breathlessness, type 2 diabetes or joint pain - and a person's day-to-day activities. Treatment with drugs or surgery is likely.