A growing crisis in obesity levels demands that diagnosis be radically overhauled to improve help for patients who have already been made ill by the condition, according to an international commission backed by leading medical bodies.
Reclassifying obesity into “pre-clinical” and “clinical” types should improve access to treatment for millions of people most at risk of serious conditions such as irreversible organ damage, the review says.
The more than doubling of global obesity rates in 30 years has triggered an urgent search for better diagnostic tools than the numerical body mass index, which offers little insight into the health damage caused by the condition.
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