Health experts are proposing new guidelines for defining obesity, by publishing new guidelines that split the definition into two distinct categories.
The proposed changes, announced yesterday, aim to reframe obesity by moving beyond Body Mass Index calculations and toward clinical obesity and pre-clinical obesity.
The authors determined that "clinical obesity" exists when organ function is reduced by weight gain and "pre-clinical obesity" when patients are healthy but carrying excess weight.
Rather than just BMI, the authors proposed 18 criteria for diagnosing clinical obesity, taking into account a range of problems from sleep apnea to liver disease.
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