World experts urge overhaul of obesity definition The Global Commission on Clinical Obesity says diagnosis must change, setting out new criteria, categories, and calling on doctors to go ‘beyond BMI’.
Is it time to trade in BMI for body roundness? GPs need to move away from using BMI as a diagnostic tool, one expert in the field says. So how should patients’ weight risks be calculated?
Body fat over BMI for obesity diagnosis: Study Researchers say doctors must ditch BMI as a diagnosis tool as it is excluding patients in need, instead calling for the use of waist-to-height ratios.
Study links frailty risk with obesity Routine assessment of BMI is a fundamental part of reducing the risk of frailty in older age, according to both new research and a local expert.
Study reveals global burden of early T2DM The number of young people with type 2 diabetes has risen substantially in the past 30 years, research involving more than 200 countries shows.
Body fat deep below the surface is a ‘toxic risk’ The type and location of fat is important, especially around the heart.