Posts Tagged ‘body compostion’

Herding Cats Toward Something Better Than BMI

December 30, 2025 — Everyone seems to know it. We need something better than BMI to serve as a clinical index for the diagnosis of obesity. But getting them to move on is like herding millions of cats. Agreement on the substitute and movement toward it is hard to find. In Search of an Alternative Writing on Medscape, obesity […]

Digging into Body Composition with Obesity Treatment at EASD

October 4, 2023 — People have “lots of interest” in the effects of GLP-1 treatment for obesity on body composition, reports endocrinologist Daniel Drucker from EASD in Hamburg. Judging from clickbait headlines about semaglutide, we suspect public interest in this question is strong as well. So that makes data presented at EASD from the SURPASS study on muscle composition […]