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Obesity can no longer be just defined by body mass index (BMI) and rather should be about how body fat is distributed throughout ones body, researchers said while launching a new framework for diagnosing and managing obesity...
An important novelty of the framework is including a waist-to-height ratio higher than 0.5, along with a BMI of 25-30, for diagnosing obesity, the authors, representing the European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO), said...
Accumulation of abdominal fat is a more reliable predictor of health deterioration, compared to BMI, even for individuals not meeting the current standard cut-off value for obesity diagnosis, which is a BMI of 30, the authors said.. They said that the current guidelines are based on evidence from studies in which participants meeting cut-off values were included for analysis, rather than on a complete clinical evaluation...
The researchers said that introducing the suggested changes in the diagnostic processes could reduce risk of undertreatment in this particular group of patientslow BMI and high abdominal fatin comparison to the current BMI-based definition of obesity..
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