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There are inadequacies in the measures used to qualify obesity.
Practitioners should be aware of the limitations in current obesity measures when assessing health risks.
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These associations and the supporting causal evidence are useful, but hide both the inadequacies of the measures used to qualify obesity.
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New insights into understanding obesity: from measures to mechanisms
Nicholas J. Timpson et al. · BMJ Medicine · 2024
DOI 10.1136/bmjmed-2023-000787
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