More than 75% of US adults may meet criteria for obesity under new definition: Study

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14. The correlation between obesity and health issues is unquestionable

It's conclusively tied to heart disease, joint damage, diabetes, sleep apnea and over a dozen forms of cancer.

If you don't like using BMI or waist ratios, DEXA is the gold standard for body mass composition. When it's been used in studies, it too shows far more Americans are obese than previously thought.

https://www.mdedge.com/endocrinology/article/263693/obesity/bmi-vastly-underestimates-true-obesity

CHICAGO – Twice as many U.S. adults have obesity based on assessment of their fat volume by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) scan compared with measurement of body mass index (BMI), a finding that highlights the shortcomings of BMI and adds to the growing case that BMI alone should not be the default gauge for obesity.

“BMI vastly underestimates true obesity,” Aayush Visaria, MD, said at the annual meeting of the Endocrine Society.

His findings highlight that “BMI should be supplemented with other measures of obesity” for the management of individual patients, with assessments that could include a bioelectrical impedance scale or waist circumference, said Dr. Visaria, a researcher at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, N.J.