The most commonly used scale that healthcare providers use to diagnose obesity is called the body mass index. BMI is a simple ...

The OPERA meeting, March 5-6th 2018, Naples Italy, was a forum for attendees to discuss and learn about obesity, related areas of medicine and health care including: prevalence and trends of obesity, ...

Laboratories are no longer peripheral. They are central to modern clinical development - enabling earlier decision-making, ...

A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial body mass index and hoping to better identify people who need treatment for ...