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- Title
The ABCD of Obesity: An EASO Position Statement on a Diagnostic Term with Clinical and Scientific Implications.
- Authors
Frühbeck, Gema; Busetto, Luca; Dicker, Dror; Yumuk, Volkan; Goossens, Gijs H.; Hebebrand, Johannes; Halford, Jason G.C.; Farpour-Lambert, Nathalie J.; Blaak, Ellen E.; Woodward, Euan; Toplak, Hermann
- Abstract
Obesity is a frequent, serious, complex, relapsing, and chronic disease process that represents a major public health problem. The coining of obesity as an adiposity-based chronic disease (ABCD) is of particular relevance being in line with EASO's proposal to improve the International Classification of Diseases ICD-11 diagnostic criteria for obesity based on three dimensions, namely etiology, degree of adiposity, and health risks. The body mass index as a unique measurement of obesity does not reflect the whole complexity of the disease. Obesity complications are mainly determined by 2 pathological processes, i.e., physical forces (fat mass disease) as well as endocrine and immune responses (sick fat disease), which are embedded in a cultural and physical context leading to a specific ABCD stage.
- Subjects
OBESITY; BODY mass index; ETIOLOGY of diseases; NOSOLOGY; OBESITY complications
- Publication
Obesity Facts: The European Journal of Obesity, 2019, Vol 12, Issue 2, p131
- ISSN
1662-4025
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1159/000497124