People with diabetes and obesity are at higher risk for severe respiratory illness caused by viruses, including serious ...

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

A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial ...

Clinical obesity is a chronic disease affecting ... a professor of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a Northwestern Medicine physician. One way to change the ...

A new report noted that body mass index does not provide a nuanced enough assessment of health as it relates to weight ...

Children who respond well to pediatric obesity treatment have markedly lower ... Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, in New York City, discussed the study ...

a commissioner and professor of medicine and medical education at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, in an interview with ABC news. Clinical obesity, by contrast, involves ...

The current BMI-based measure of obesity can both overestimate and underestimate how much body fat a person has, explains Dr.

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 ...

The new definitions are likely to be confusing, said Kate Bauer, a nutrition expert at the University ... obesity will take time, acknowledged Dr. Robert Kushner, an obesity expert at the ...