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BMI alone is no longer enough to define obesity, according to health experts. PHOTO : Getty Images / Liudmila Chernetska
The question has torn the medical world apart for 30 years. According to the journal’s committee on obesity The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinologyit is time to redefine the concept of obesity, since the current version, based on body mass index (BMI), generates overdiagnosis. BMI is really nonsense!
launches Jean-Pierre Després, researcher at the Institute of Cardiology and Pneumology of Quebec (IUCPQ)–Université Laval and member of the commission.
Jean-Pierre Després cites as an example the doctor and former professional footballer Laurent Duvernay-Tardif who has a BMI of 34 equivalent to that of an obese person even though he has the health of an athlete.
-The researcher explains that the new proposed definition must take into account waist circumference and the presence of certain pathologies, in addition to BMI. Based on these criteria, the medical world is now called upon to speak of clinical obesity and preclinical obesity.
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