A new report says only using BMI to determine if a patient has obesity leads to under-diagnosing people who are ill and ...

Traditionally BMI was used to define obesity, but a team of doctors redefined obesity based on the Indian population.

Indian doctors have revised obesity guidelines for the first time in 15 years, moving beyond the traditional BMI tool to ...

A day after international experts proposed a new approach to define obesity by looking beyond body mass index (BMI), Indian ...

The term overweight is no more a part of the India-specific obesity guidelines that were revised after nearly 15 years and ...

Indian doctors have redefined obesity with new guidelines that consider the unique health challenges faced by the population.

Obesity is now understood as a condition that affects the functions of organs and tissues, leading to complications such as ...

BMI over 30 is considered obese. But those having excess fat may not have a BMI 30, which shows under-diagnosis of people and ...

India has experienced a doubling of obesity prevalence over the past two decades, with abdominal obesity becoming ...

More than 1 billion people worldwide live with obesity, and the condition is linked to about 5 million deaths every year from ...

As of March 2020, nearly 42% of US adults had obesity, with the report estimating that more than a billion people are living ...

Instead of using the controversial body mass index, or BMI, to assess weight, an international group of scientists proposes ...