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The prevalence of obesity in the US could rise sharply under a new definition of obesity released earlier this year by the Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology Commission . Researchers from Mass General Brigham found that when applying the new criteria, which expands upon the traditional use of body mass index (BMI) to include measures of body fat distribution, the prevalence of obesity increased from about 40 percent to about 70 percent among over 300,000 people included in the

In the first multinational study of a proposed change to how obesity is defined - which calls for health factors beyond a person's height...