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Obesity won't be solely defined by BMI under new plan for diagnosis by global expertsan obesity expert at the University of Washington and one of the 58 authors of the report published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology journal. The report introduces two new diagnostic ...
Obesity affects over 1 billion people globally, with 40 percent of U.S. adults classified as obese under the present framework, ...
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Experts look to abandon BMI, find new ways to define obesity“The whole goal of this is to get a more precise definition so that we are targeting the people who actually need the help most,” Dr. David Cummings, a University of Washington obesity expert ...
Dr David Cummings, an obesity expert at the University of Washington and a co-author of the new report published in “The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology”, explained: “BMI is a risk factor ...
an obesity expert at the University of Washington and one of the 58 authors of the report published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology journal. The report introduces two new diagnostic ...
(Allison Robbert/The Washington Post) The Trump administration has promised that addressing childhood obesity will be a key part of its “Make America Healthy Again” agenda. That’s much ...
However, the new report notes that BMI can lead to both over- and under-reporting of obesity. An athlete with little body fat but significant muscle mass might score in the “obese” BMI range.
Researchers explored the effects of obesity on the lung microenvironment in ferrets ... She earned her PhD in neuroscience from the University of Washington in 2017 and completed the Dalla Lana ...
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