The recommendations also put forth two new diagnosis categories: clinical obesity and pre-obesity. The first describes people with evidence of health conditions caused by excess weight, such as heart ...
A new report noted that body mass index does not provide a nuanced enough assessment of health as it relates to weight ...
Communication problems increase exponentially. (When recently attempting to schedule a meeting, for example, a Northwestern University task force team discovered that there was no time or day of the ...
An international committee of scientists has proposed changing the way obesity is defined and diagnosed. The proposal adds ...
Obesity is currently defined as a BMI of 30 or above in adults ... and professor of medicine and medical education at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, in an interview ...
BMI is a person’s weight in kilograms divided ... a professor of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a Northwestern Medicine physician. One way to change the ...
New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular body mass index (BMI ... education at Northwestern University's Feinberg ...