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Identifying Patients for Weight-Loss Treatment

Author(s) -

Michaela Kiernan,

Marilyn A. Winkleby

Publication year - 2000

Publication title -

archives of internal medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1538-3679

pISSN - 0003-9926

DOI - 10.1001/archinte.160.14.2169

Subject(s) - waist , medicine , overweight , body mass index , circumference , obesity , abdominal obesity , national health and nutrition examination survey , demography , weight loss , gerontology , physical therapy , environmental health , population , geometry , mathematics , sociology

The NHLBI (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute) Obesity Education Initiative Expert Panel recently proposed that clinicians and other health care professionals use a new treatment algorithm to identify patients for weight-loss treatment. In addition to the usual assessment of body mass index (BMI, calculated as weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters), the new algorithm includes the assessment of abdominal obesity (as measured by waist circumference) and other cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors.

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