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  2. Experts Want Obesity Defined Beyond BMI - AOL

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    Body mass index (BMI) is one of the most ubiquitous yet controversial metrics in medicine. A crude measure of weight relative to height, BMI is commonly used to diagnose obesity—even though many ...

  3. Who should be considered 'obese'? Time to move on from BMI ...

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    The commission said 18 factors can support a diagnosis of obesity. Examples include breathlessness, high blood pressure, knee or hip pain, reduced range of motion due to excess body fat, heart ...

  4. Radical new proposal from 58 medical experts would decenter ...

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    Being more explicit about obesity criteria would likely lead to fewer diagnoses of obesity given the more narrow criteria of clinical obesity. That would lead to fewer GLP-1 prescriptions limited ...

  5. Obesity won't be solely defined by BMI under new plan for ...

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    Under recommendations released Tuesday night, obesity would no longer be defined solely by BMI, a calculation of height and weight, but combined with other measurements, such as waist circumference, plus evidence of health problems tied to extra pounds. Obesity is estimated to affect more than 1 billion people worldwide. In the U.S., about 40% ...

  6. Obesity - Wikipedia

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    Obesity is a major cause of disability and is correlated with various diseases and conditions, particularly cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, obstructive sleep apnea, certain types of cancer, and osteoarthritis. [2] [12] [13] Obesity has individual, socioeconomic, and environmental causes.

  7. Classification of obesity - Wikipedia

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    Obesity and BMI An obese male with a body mass index of 53 kg/m 2: weight 182 kg (400 lb), height 185 cm (6 ft 1 in). Obesity classification is a ranking of obesity, the medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it has an adverse effect on health. [1]

  8. Adipose tissue expandability hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    Version of the hypothesis implicating failure to generate more adipocytes in tissue expandability. The adipose tissue expandability hypothesis posits that metabolic dysregulation that appears to be caused by excess weight, such as type 2 diabetes [1] and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, [2] are triggered when an individual's capacity for storing excess calories in the subcutaneous adipose ...

  9. Obesity needs new definition, says global report - AOL

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    "Obesity is a health risk - the difference is it's also an illness for some," Prof Rubino said. Redefining it was sensible, he added, to understand the level of risk in a large population, instead ...