ReviewObesity facts2016
Beyond BMI: Conceptual Issues Related to Overweight and Obese Patients.
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92 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Predictive models of newborn body composition: a systematic review.Revista paulista de pediatria : orgao oficial da Sociedade de Pediatria de Sao Paulo · 2023Pooled it
- Effects of Nutritional Education Interventions on Metabolic Risk in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review of Controlled Trials.Nutrients · 2019Pooled it
- Association between body mass index and clinical outcomes in patients with acute myocardial infarction and reduced systolic function: Analysis of PARADISE-MI trial data.European journal of heart failure · 2025Trial
- Effectiveness of an mHealth Intervention Combining a Smartphone App and Smart Band on Body Composition in an Overweight and Obese Population: Randomized Controlled Trial (EVIDENT 3 Study).JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2020Trial
- Nonlinear association between body roundness index and depressive symptoms in women of reproductive age: The mediating role of systemic inflammation.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2026Article
- Clinical Assessment of Obesity Beyond Body Mass Index: Adiposity Evaluation, Body-Composition Phenotyping and Disease Staging: A Narrative Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Do We Need Body Composition Analysis in Patients with Obesity? A Rethinking of Body Composition Assessment in Preclinical and Clinical Obesity.Obesity facts · 2026Review
- Retrospective cohort study of body fat percentage and incident impaired fasting glucose among Chinese adults.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- Persistence of Body Composition Changes Observed During the Winter Holiday Period: A Three-Time-Point, One-Year Longitudinal Study.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Observational
- Routine Life-Course Health Records in Infancy Predict Being Overweight in Childhood and Adolescence: The TMM BirThree Cohort Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Obesity: current developments in mechanisms, diagnosis, classification and the evolution of personalized management.Medical review (2021) · 2026Review
- Equation-derived SMI not generalizable for DXA-defined low muscle mass in Chinese adults: external validation study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- MRI abdominal fat segmentation with a novel VAT/SAT delineation algorithm: Otsu regression calibration and comparison to k-means and fuzzy c-means.Frontiers in bioinformatics · 2026Article
- Health of Collegiate Athletes - An Investigation into Symptoms Associated with Low Energy Availability.International journal of exercise science · 2026Article
- The C-reactive protein-to-body mass index ratio predicts prognosis in patients with different types of heart failure.Open medicine (Warsaw, Poland) · 2026Article
- Sign- vs. goal-tracking is associated with greater adiposity and altered functional connectivity in response to a naturalistic food paradigm.Physiology & behavior · 2025Article
- Body composition, anthropometry, and resting energy expenditure in adults with achondroplasia: a pilot study to determine best practices.Orphanet journal of rare diseases · 2025Article
- Sex differences in adiposity and hemodynamic parameters as cardiovascular risk indicators among South African university staff: a descriptive cross-sectional study.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2025Article
- Association between body roundness index and obstructive sleep apnea: a cross-sectional study from the NHANES (2005-2008 to 2015-2020).BMC oral health · 2025Article
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Abstract
BMI is widely used as a measure of weight status and disease risks; it defines overweight and obesity based on statistical criteria. BMI is a score; neither is it biologically sound nor does it reflect a suitable phenotype worthwhile to study. Because of its limited value, BMI cannot provide profound insight into obesity biology and its co-morbidity. Alternative assessments of weight status include detailed phenotyping by body composition analysis (BCA). However, predicting disease risks, fat mass, and fat-free mass as assessed by validated techniques (i.e., densitometry, dual energy X ray absorptiometry, and bioelectrical impedance analysis) does not exceed the value of BMI. Going beyond BMI and descriptive BCA, the concept of functional body composition (FBC) integrates body components into regulatory systems. FBC refers to the masses of body components, organs, and tissues as well as to their inter-relationships within the context of endocrine, metabolic and immune functions. FBC can be used to define specific phenotypes of obesity, e.g. the sarcopenic-obese patient. Well-characterized obesity phenotypes are a precondition for targeted research (e.g., on the genomics of obesity) and patient-centered care (e.g., adequate treatment of individual obese phenotypes such as the sarcopenic-obese patient). FBC contributes to a future definition of overweight and obesity based on physiological criteria rather than on body weight alone.
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