Definition and diagnostic criteria of clinical obesity

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2 pointsggm4 comments

Getting quite a lot of newspaper coverage e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/14/call-to-over...

A review away from BMI is in my personal, non-medical view, long overdue.

> The proposed shake-up, endorsed by more than 75 medical organisations around the world, puts forward new ways to diagnose obesity based on other measures of excess body fat in addition to BMI, such as waist-to-hip ratio or waist-to-height ratio, as well as objective signs and symptoms of ill health.

This one includes BMI.

Yes, but it de-prefs it as I understand it, and refines the model with better, more fine grained objective measures. There's room in this new space for a "fat, but fit" category.

I don't mind keeping BMI any more than I mind GPs hitting my knee with a hammer. That isn't the only way they measure reflexes these days. I do mind BMI alone being used to determine health pathways.

(not a medico so this is outside-view)

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