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A panel of global experts explains why BMI is not the most helpful measurement of body weight, and how else doctors can diagnose obesity. Image credit: VICTOR TORRES/Stocksy.
For these people, obesity is a risk factor and should be addressed as such to reduce the risk of chronic conditions developing, but they do not yet have medical complications caused by obesity.
Obesity risk factors can be genetic or environmental — the latter has to do with lifestyle choices and things you don’t have as much control over, like illness or work stress.
Obesity is a major cause of disability and is correlated with various diseases and conditions, particularly cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, obstructive sleep apnea, certain types of cancer, and osteoarthritis. [2] [12] [13] Obesity has individual, socioeconomic, and environmental causes.
These associations were not attenuated when fat intake and calorie intake was accounted for. [37] [38] Similarly, heavy consumption of fried food is linked to greater obesity risk on a population level. [39] On a more individual level, the relative risk of fried food consumption and increased weight gain seems to depend on genetic ...
Obesity medicine is a field of medicine dedicated to the comprehensive treatment of patients with obesity.Obesity medicine takes into account the multi-factorial etiology of obesity in which behavior, development, environment, epigenetic, genetic, nutrition, physiology, and psychosocial contributors all play a role. [1]
The second category is pre-clinical obesity, which is obesity with normal organ function, but acknowledges the increased risk of developing clinical obesity and other diseases, such as including ...
Diagram of the medical complications of obesity, from the US CDC. Proponents claim that evidence from certain scientific studies has provided some rationale for a shift in focus in health management from weight loss to a weight-neutral approach in individuals who have a high risk of type 2 diabetes and/or symptoms of cardiovascular disease, and that a weight-inclusive approach focusing on ...