Obesity New Definition: Indian doctors have redefined obesity with new guidelines that consider the unique health challenges faced by the population. Listen to Story Indian doctors have given obesity ...

Under recommendations released Tuesday night, obesity would no longer be defined solely by BMI, a calculation of height and weight, but combined with other measurements, such as waist circumference, ...

Now health care experts say one-size-does-not-fit-all. It’s been used for more than 100 years but doctors around the world say it’s time to move the field forward when it comes to body mass index.

allowing them to receive more appropriate care, proportional to their needs,” commission member Louise Baur, chair of child and adolescent health at the University of Sydney in Australia ...

Obesity needs a new definition, argues a global group of ... It’s up to individual doctors and health care systems to decide whether to put these guidelines into clinical practice.

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By Gina Kolata Obesity should be assessed in a way that goes beyond the standard measure of body mass index, or B.M.I., according to a new definition ... to improve their health and prevent ...

The current definition of obesity, as set by the World Health Organization (WHO), is having ... more appropriately triage people to the right care,” says Adrian Brown at University College ...

“And they don’t seek care because they ... who do have the clinical definition of obesity, recognising it as a disease does give it legitimacy that this is a health condition, and it needs ...

On Jan 14, 2025, The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology published its Commission on the definition and diagnostic criteria of ... might increase the workload of and time pressures on health-care workers ...

Despite evidence that some people with excess adiposity have ill health due to obesity, obesity is generally considered a harbinger of other diseases, not a disease in itself. The idea of obesity as a ...