70% of the US has obesity now? Based on new definitions it appears that way but the devil is the in details. They took the new anthropometric definitions of obesity and applied it to a large cohort. The traditional BMI cut off of 30 was used while also adding in having 2 other anthropometric markers either waist circumference (102 cm for males, 80 cm for females), waist-to-height ratio (equal to or above 0.5), or waist-to-hip ratio (equal or above 0.9 for men or 0.85 for women). They also did so
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70% of the US has obesity now? Based on new definitions it appears that way but the devil is the in details. They took the new anthropometric definitions of obesity and applied it to a large cohort. The traditional BMI cut off of 30 was used while also adding in having 2 other anthropometric markers either waist circumference (102 cm for males, 80 cm for females), waist-to-height ratio (equal to or above 0.5), or waist-to-hip ratio (equal or above 0.9 for men or 0.85 for women). They also did so
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