Gesundheitsexperten schlagen eine neue Definition von Fettleibigkeit vor | Die Kommission empfiehlt außerdem die Verwendung einer alternativen oder ergänzenden Metrik zum BMI, um Messungen der Körperzusammensetzung genau wiederzugeben

>The proposed definition and diagnostic criteria for clinical obesity are pragmatic and would help clinicians identify who would benefit most from treatment, says cardiologist and obesity researcher Francisco Lopez-Jimenez of Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., who was not involved in the new report. Interventions like [GLP-1 drugs](https://www.sciencenews.org/article/benefits-ozempic-weight-loss-glp1), bariatric surgery and lifestyle counseling can be costly for patients, health systems and insurers.

>Still, Lopez-Jimenez worries whether preclinical obesity — in which patients may need anything from simple monitoring to weight-loss medications — would be taken seriously. “We have to be careful when we call a condition preclinical,” he says. “If that would lead to less attention, if that would lead to less treatments for those individuals, I would have a problem with that.”

[Read more here](https://www.sciencenews.org/article/obesity-clinical-disease-bmi-health) and the [research article here. ](https://www.thelancet.com/commissions/clinical-obesity)