New clinical definition of obesity could help target care more effectively, saving time and money
The traditional way of assessing whether someone is overweight using body mass index (BMI) may fail to capture whether excess body fat is harmful and could be supplemented with a second measure when assessing patients, a new UCL study suggests.
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