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To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (196820)1/19/2025 6:55:02 PM
From: marcher  Read Replies (1) of 218132
 
doctors criticizing bmi as a measure of obesity:

"...The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission asserted... that “current BMI-based measures of
obesity can both underestimate and overestimate adiposity
and provide inadequate information about
health at the individual level, undermining medically-sound approaches to health care and policy...

[The Commission proposed] ...a diagnosis of clinical obesity requires one or both criteria:
evidence of reduced organ or tissue function due to obesity and
substantial age-adjusted limitations of daily activities due to obesity.

...Using BMI to define obesity carries “several limitations” according to the commission. Because BMI
doesn’t differentiate between lean mass and body fat, some people with normal BMIs may have excess
body fat that could put them at increased risk for certain conditions. On the other end, the commission
members noted individuals with BMIs that define them as obese may not have excess fat, leading to
an overdiagnosis of obesity
..."
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