A new treatment guideline published Friday challenges current guidelines on treating obesity. The authors propose that rather than focusing on the body mass index score alone to qualify for medications and surgery, high abdominal fat accumulation in people with lower BMI scores should also receive these kinds of treatments for obesity.
“The system for diagnosing and managing obesity can no longer be about just body mass index (BMI), which is excluding many people who would benefit from obesity treatment,” the European Association for the Study of Obesity said in a press release.
