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How Obesity Affects Your Blood Pressure (And What You Can Do About It)
Medically reviewed by Jeffrey S. Lander, MD Obesity is a medical condition that can present a range of health complications, including high blood pressure (hypertension). Excess weight increases the ...
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How Obesity Is Diagnosed
The most successful strategy for obesity treatment involves early diagnosis and intervention. Studies have shown that getting a formal diagnosis of obesity is more likely to resul ...
The US is now the fattest it’s ever been as obesity rates rise again, CDC says — and these are the most overweight states
The CDC defines obesity as having a body mass index (BMI) of at least 30 ... gut microbiome and access to healthcare and safe ...
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Obesity: BMI is the most common measurement, but it has flaws
But BMI is not a perfect measure of whether someone is fat, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC says BMI is correlated with direct measures of adiposity (body ...
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Morbid Obesity: When Are You Medically Overweight?
Medically reviewed by Karina Tolentino, RD Being overweight is defined as having more body fat than is ideal for good health. Body mass index (BMI) is a measuring tool to define whether a person is in ...
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Three Classes of Obesity: Each Category Explained
Each of these classifications has a direct impact not only on a person's health but also on their risk of death. Obesity independently increases the risk of morbidity (illness). This is evidenced by a ...
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Proposal would ditch BMI for determining obesity
A group of experts from around the world are proposing an alternative way of defining clinical obesity, eschewing the commonly referenced body max index (BMI ... Prevention (CDC), 40.3 percent ...