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Assessment of obesity beyond body mass index to determine benefit of treatment
Author(s) -
Aasheim E. T.,
Aylwin S. J. B.,
Radhakrishnan S. T.,
Sood A. S.,
Jovanovic A.,
Olbers T.,
le Roux C. W.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
clinical obesity
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.64
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1758-8111
pISSN - 1758-8103
DOI - 10.1111/j.1758-8111.2011.00017.x
Subject(s) - medicine , body mass index , obesity , weight loss , disease , psychological intervention , gold standard (test) , stage (stratigraphy) , physical therapy , paleontology , psychiatry , biology
• Weight or weight loss per se may not indicate health status or health benefit. • There is no gold standard for assessing which patients would benefit most from weight-loss interventions. • The King's Criteria is one of several recently proposed obesity classification systems.