Friday, April 6, 2012

The scope of the obesity epidemic in the United States has been ...




The scope of the obesity epidemic in the United States has been greatly underestimated, according to a study publishe in the open access journal PLoS ONE. Researchers found that the Body Mass Index (BMI) substantially under-diagnoses obesity when compared to the Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DXA) scan, a direct simultaneous measure of body fat, muscle mass, and bone density. The disparity is particularly significant for women of advancing age, those with high blood leptin levels, and the normal weight obese...

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