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Comment: Obesity and the possibility for private medical weight management services
Abstract
Obesity is a serious problem on a personal, societal and global level. Some individuals are able to lose weight using diet and exercise alone, but others require additional intervention from healthcare professionals. Following her talk at ACE Conference, Sandy Green explores the issue of obesity and the private medical weight management services available, which can easily be incorporated into any aesthetic practice
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines obesity as a serious chronic disease associated with having excess body fat, to the extent that it may have a negative effect on a person's health (WHO, 2019). However, obesity is complex because it is influenced by many external and internal factors.
A crude measure of obesity, by way of the Body Mass Index (BMI) uses a person's weight in kilogrammes divided by the square of their height in metres, to create a BMI score which falls into one of six classifications:
As the classification and BMI increases, so does the risk of associated comorbidities, with excessive body weight being associated with multiple diseases and conditions and a reduction in life expectancy. The BMI classification of obesity has been amended recently so that, for example, a person with a BMI of 30 or more is considered obese, and in the category of obese there are now three different classes (one, two and three), which replaces previous terminology, which included the term ‘morbidly obese’.
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