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 ...

Sociodemographic Factors At Play The AHA introduced Life’s Simple 7 in 2010 as way to assess an individual’s overall CV health status based on seven parameters: nicotine exposure, diet, physical ...

Police said the suspect left a note saying he was taking action against the healthcare industry ... a hematologist and professor at Northwestern University’s medical school, said aspirin ...

New guidance from a team of health experts around the world proposes expanding the definition of obesity beyond the popular body mass index (BMI ... education at Northwestern University's Feinberg ...

Obesity is currently defined as a BMI of 30 or above in adults ... and professor of medicine and medical education at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, in an interview ...

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

An international committee of scientists has proposed changing the way obesity is defined and diagnosed. The proposal adds ...

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