with no signs or symptoms of ongoing illness.” The commission advises two new categories of obesity: clinical and preclinical obesity. Clinical obesity is a chronic disease affecting organ ...

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 ...

The group said those with a B.M.I. of 40 or greater have clinical obesity on the basis of their B.M.I. alone — there is no need to assess their body fat. The commission said it did not know the ...

Jan. 27, 2025 — A study shows that patients with obesity and fatty liver-related cirrhosis who had bariatric (weight-loss) surgery significantly lowered their future ... Signposting Children to ...

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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 ...

A crude measure of weight relative to height, BMI is commonly used to diagnose obesity—even though many ... Clinicians are under no obligation to follow the group’s proposal, but 76 medical ...