Medical experts have urged a shift away from the Body Mass Index (BMI) as the main yardstick to determine obesity as it does not factor in body fat levels. The prevalent method is so flawed that it ...

Five years after starting a private practice, Colorado-based obesity medicine specialist Carolynn Francavilla, MD, was at risk of going under. The pandemic hit, and her patients couldn’t come to ...

LONDON – Doctors worldwide should diagnose obesity differently, relying on broader criteria and taking into account when the condition causes ill-health, according to a new framework drawn up by ...

Can the market justify the hundreds of GLP-1 developers that are working to eventually reach the market? When the dust settles, Minji Kim, CEO of Cross Border Partners and Advisory Service, told ...

People are being “overdiagnosed” with obesity, leading medics have warned as they called for a “reframing” of the way the condition is diagnosed. Academics have suggested that a body mass ...

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The current approach for diagnosing obesity – one defined solely by an individual’s body mass index – is inadequate. The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission on the definition and diagnostic ...

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 ...

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But the timing of this recommendation—along with the omission of other significant risks like obesity—has sparked debate. Is this advisory a well-timed intervention, or does it reflect deeper ...