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Obesity: how to stop millions being misdiagnosed - video
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SignalsMonitor is following this as a general story. The Guardian UK is the outlet attached so far. The first report grouped here was at 12 Nov 2026, 12:49 UTC. The headline in use is “Obesity: how to stop millions being misdiagnosed - video”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
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An alternative to BMI for diagnosing obesity could prevent misdiagnosis in millions of people worldwide, according to doctors who found it more accurately distinguished healthy people from those with harmful excess body fat. Guardian Science editor Ian Sample takes co-host Madeleine Finlay through why BMI is flawed, and how the…
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