Browsing: synthesis

Weight Loss

Diagnosis, staging and management of obesity: a synthesis of contemporary guidelines

By 0

Obesity is a chronic, adiposity-based disease with increasing global prevalence and multiple, competing definitions. Traditionally, body mass index (BMI) has been the primary tool for diagnosis, although it does not completely reflect adipose tissue mass, distribution or associated organ dysfunction. In the past 2 years, major professional societies (including the European Association for the Study…