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In addition to BMI, assessment of WC should be incorporated more frequently when assessing population trends of obesity and the burden of disease associated with excess adiposity. Thats not what I said (although it could be) but what Stephanie K Tanamas et al. concluded after analysing 12-year weight change, waist circumference change and incident obesity in Australia. The researchers found that specifically for Australians aged ≥75 years the BMI is totally misleading. While the guys and girls in this age group lost an average 4.5kg of body weight their waistlines expanded by an average of 0.8 cm. The effects were more pronounced in women who are thus particularly prone to develop sarcopenic obesity (=no muscle, only fat) without somebody noticing, if the only thing he / she uses to gauge the obesity levels is the BMI. Reference: Tanamas et al. 12-year weight change, waist circumference change and incident obesity: The Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle study. Obesity. 2014 [accepted article]
Posted on: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 18:00:00 +0000

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