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Millions more middle-aged are obese, study suggests [View all]
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-69009787Millions more middle-aged are obese, study suggests
7 hours ago
By Philippa Roxby,
Millions of middle-aged people have been mistakenly led to believe they are not obese, according to an Italian study that looked at body fat instead of weight related to height.
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A study of 4,800 adults aged 40-80 years old, led by the University of Tor Vergata in Rome, and presented at the European Congress on Obesity, looked at an alternative - measuring body fat percentage.
Just 38% of the men and 41% of the women had a BMI above 30 - but when their body fat percentage was calculated using scans, 71% and 64% were found to be obese.
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A BMI of 27 should be used to define obesity in future, the researchers said.
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