Investors lose their appetite for the obesity trade
Just as quickly, investors are losing their appetite for the trade. After a disappointing trial of a new Novo Nordisk drug ...
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Doctors reveals why BMI alone can’t determine obesity
Leading health experts challenge traditional BMI measurements and introduce a comprehensive new approach to diagnosing obesity, potentially affecting millions.
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Top in endocrinology: New criteria for diagnosing obesity; Medicare price negotiations
A report from The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission has proposed new criteria for defining and diagnosing obesity, ...
End of the Line for BMI? Experts Propose New Obesity Definition
Obesity affects over 1 billion people globally, with 40 percent of U.S. adults classified as obese under the present ...
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Experts Propose a New Definition of Obesity—and It Goes Beyond BMI
An international team of doctors proposed a new way to define obesity that's not based solely on BMI. Here's what they ...
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BMI Sidelined in New Obesity Definition That Favors Health Evaluation
Instead of using the controversial body mass index, or BMI, to assess weight, an international group of scientists proposes ...
New Obesity Definition Challenges Current Use of B.M.I.
An international commission made the case for focusing on body fat quantity and the illnesses people experience.
Obesity Drug Study Points to Effectiveness in Curbing Addictions
One of the world’s largest studies of Ozempic, Mounjaro and other blockbuster diabetes and obesity drugs highlighted their ...
Oprah Winfrey reveals taking GLP-1 weight-loss drug made her realize what she got wrong about ‘thin people’
The media queen also confessed that she was reluctant to take a GLP-1 drug because she felt it was “the easy way out.” That ...