More people could count as obese under newly proposed definition — here's what you need to know
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Obesity is linked to a range of health problems — including heart disease, diabetes and early death — but it can be hard to know who is most at risk for these outcomes. Doctors and researchers often use body mass index (BMI) as a convenient tool to assess patients, but this metric does not account for individual differences in body composition, scientists have long argued."BMI misses a lot of information," Dr. Francesco Rubino, a professor of bariatric and metabolic surgery at King's College
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