Measurement of body fat can help with more obesity to treat obesity
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Reflection on the way we determine obesity can help millions of people all over the world, arguing a team of researchers who want to present a new category of obesity “before clinical”.
The current definition of obesity, as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO), has excessive fat in the body that poses a risk to health. The World Health Organization recommends that health care workers reside whether people suffer from obesity by calculating the BMI (BMI), which is a scale of weight in relation to height. The body mass index is between 18.5 and 24.9 healthy, while below or higher indicates that someone suffers from weight gain. The BMI above 30 indicates that someone suffers from obesity.
It is true that high levels of body fat can cause it to be infiltrated into organs such as the liver and pancreas, Weaken its function. It can also lead to increased inflammation, which provokes the risk of conditions such as cancer, liver disease and heart problems.
But the body mass index badly reflects the levels of body fat. He says: “With a body mass index, we do not know if this” excess “weight is due to the excessive time in the body, a stronger muscle mass, or a bone mass. Francesco Robino At King’s College London, who led the obesity review.
Even when evaluated properly, by measuring the waist or, X -ray examinations are rarely, the body’s fat levels do not dictate the health of someone completely. “There are no two people who respond in the same way to increase the body fat. This is affected by the sweat of the person and sweat, age, and what foods they eat, and genetics play a huge role.” Stephen Hemzfield At Louisiana State University.
That is why Robino and his colleagues want to provide more accuracy in the definition of obesity, and the division of cases into pre -clinical and clinical. Both models will be distinguished as they contain excess body fat, but only the clinical shape involves symptoms caused by excess fat, such as breathing difficulties, heart problems or the difficulty of implementing daily activities. Meanwhile, pre -clinical obesity raises the risk of these obesity -related symptoms, says Robino.
This will be closer to how people are exposed to diabetes, as blood sugar levels are higher than usual, but they are not high enough to diagnose type 2 diabetes, says Robino.
Under the proposed changes, health care employees measure the body fat levels directly using a waist or X -ray width in addition to calculating the body mass index, although someone has a body mass index above 40 will always be supposed to have excess fat. Then they use blood tests to assess the health of the organs and ask people if they suffer from symptoms. Heymsfield says that blood tests are routinely by many doctors, but direct body fat measurements will somewhat increase their work burden.
Robino says that new definitions may mean that new definitions may mean that people have been better provided and treatment for their bodies. In general, those who suffer from pre -clinical obesity may only need to monitor their health and adopt lifestyle changes, while those who have a clinical shape are more likely to treat medicines or surgery, says Robino.
“This will allow us to empty people more suitable for appropriate care,” he says. Adrian Brown At the University of London.
Laura Gray At Sheffield University, UK, she welcomes proposed changes. “There is an urgent need. These guidelines in clinical practice are what the current research says.” “Not everyone who suffers from obesity according to the body mass index is fine, and not everyone has in good health body mass index.”
The updated definitions, which have already been adopted by 76 health organizations around the world, may help even reduce the stigma surrounding clarity. Hope is that determining obesity in a more accurate way indicates that it is a disease in itself. “It is not just a result of behavioral things,” Gray says.
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