Lancet commission’s report calls for global shake-up and suggests looking at measures such as waist-to-height ratios and ill-health symptomsReframing obesity may end the diagnosis debate, but the health challenges remainDoctors are proposing a “radical overhaul” of how obesity is diagnosed worldwide amid concerns that a reliance on body mass index may be causing millions of people to be misdiagnosed.More than 1 billion people are thought to be living with the condition that for decades has been diagnosed by measuring a person’s BMI (their ratio of height to weight) to estimate the amount of excess body fat they have. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/14/call-to-overhaul-obesity-diagnoses-amid-fears-of-over-reliance-on-bmi
Author : Andrew Gregory Health editor
Publish date : 2025-01-14 23:30:00
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Call to overhaul obesity diagnoses amid fears of over-reliance on BMI
