A commission proposed a new definition of obesity focused on how excess fat affects the body, rather than assessing body mass index, that could change clinical care.

Is obesity a disease? How could it be better defined? A commission of 56 global experts from 'The Lancet' magazine has set ...

A new report argues that body mass index or BMI is not the most accurate way to define ... Adopting the commission's suggested obesity definition could help spark more open conversations with patients ...

And people with high muscle mass — football players or other athletes ... used to be classified as obese would no longer meet the definition, preliminary analysis suggests.

In Tuesday's issue of The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, dozens of international medical experts and people with lived experience are proposing a major change to how obesity is diagnosed because ...

The current definition of obesity ... workers assess whether people have obesity by calculating their body mass index (BMI), a measure of weight relative to height. A BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 ...

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 of the condition released by an international ...