The way obesity is diagnosed needs to become more sophisticated, an international commission has concluded.Using body-mass ...
The Commission on Clinical Obesity recommends a new, nuanced approach where measures of body fat - for example, waist ...
The Global Commission on Clinical Obesity has put forward 18 criteria for diagnosing clinical obesity, moving away from the ...
Over one billion people in the world are estimated to have obesity. Some experts believe its treatment and diagnosis need a ...
Clinical obesity -- now defined as a state of ongoing illness -- is hallmarked by reduced tissue or organ function due to ...
Credit World Obesity FederationA global Commission, published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology and endorsed by 75 medical organisations around ...