Abdominal fat rather than BMI alone ‘key to diagnosing obesity’
BMI alone is 'insufficient as a diagnostic criterion', according to the European Association for the Study of Obesity.
Patients with a BMI of ≥25kg/m2, a waist-to-height ratio of ≥0.5 and any medical complications should be diagnosed with obesity, according to a new clinical framework developed by European doctors.
The European Association for the Study of Obesity has put forward 28 consensus statements “to aid in the diagnosis, staging and management of obesity” rather than relying on BMI alone.
