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New report proposes redefining obesity by adding body fat and health status to BMI
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 ...
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Scientists Suggest New Way to Help Measure Obesity Instead of Just Using Traditional BMI Metric
However, the new report notes that BMI can lead to both over- and under-reporting of obesity ... an endocrinologist at Northwestern University who is a part of the commission, noted that belly ...
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Move aside BMI: There's a better way to define obesity, commission finds
The current BMI-based measure of obesity can both overestimate and underestimate how much body fat a person has, explains Dr. Robert Kushner, an endocrinologist at Northwestern University who is ...
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Obesity Won't Be Solely Defined by BMI Under New Plan for Diagnosis by Global Experts
The new definitions are likely to be confusing, said Kate Bauer, a nutrition expert at the University of ... Overhauling the definition of obesity will take time, acknowledged Dr. Robert Kushner, an ...
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We’re measuring obesity wrong — experts pinpoint 3 signs you may fit the bill regardless of your BMI
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 ...