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

The way the world defines obesity has been in need of an overhaul, according to some experts, and it could be coming soon ...

Endocrinology is the branch of medicine that deals with disorders of the endocrine system. Genetic deletion of Kdm2a or pharmacological blockade of KDM2A, a histone 3 demethylase, in skeletal ...

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

New recommendations on how to define obesity would reduce the emphasis on body mass index and take into account health ...

“The whole goal of this is to get a more precise definition so that we are targeting ... of the report published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology journal. The report introduces two new ...

In Tuesday's issue of The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology ... people with lived experience released a report proposing a new definition and diagnostic criteria for clinical obesity.

The report, published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology journal ... The current, blanket definition means too many people are being diagnosed as obese but not receiving the most appropriate ...

The analysis included data from 1,826 adult participants (47 percent Black; mean age, 51.0 years) in the Dallas Heart Study. The researchers found that higher HDL cholesterol efflux capacity and small ...

bnHealth Promotion and Obesity Management Unit, Department of Pathophysiology, Faculty of Medical Science, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland boSchool of Public Health, Tongji Medical ...

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 ...