Research
Hormonal
Obesity is a chronic disease characterized by physiological dysregulation of fat mass, not merely a result of willful behavioral choices.
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The panel recognized and endorsed the World Health Organization's definition of obesity as a chronic disease characterized by excessive or abnormal adipose tissue that is associated with increased health risk, and reached the consensus that obesity is a disease that develops from a disturbance in the body's normal regulation of fat mass, with development and severity influenced by both endogenous and exogenous (environmental) factors.
Why this rating
Consensus statement by an international panel of obesity medicine experts.
Source
Assessing the state of obesity care: Quality, access, guidelines, and standards
Lee M. Kaplan et al. · Obesity Science & Practice · 2024
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