BMI is a crude measure of weight relative to height that reveals very little about someone’s health. It does not differentiate between weight from fat versus muscle.
The proposal advocates for clinicians to augment or replace BMI with body measurements like waist circumference or objective tests that measure body fat.
The definition separates obesity into two categories: clinical obesity, marked by health problems, and preclinical obesity, which lacks immediate health concerns but is a risk to monitor.
Dr. Rubino describes the new framework as the most radical change proposed for the diagnosis of obesity, calling it a pragmatic approach for global application.
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