Beyond BMI: Visceral Fat, Genetic Testing, and Advanced Imaging

Obesity management represents a critical and rapidly growing global health issue with profound multisystemic impacts. Excess adiposity drives wide-ranging harmful effects across the body, affecting the brain, lungs, liver, heart, gallbladder, pancreas, and joints, while significantly increasing...

• Obesity management is a rapidly growing global issue. It's crucial to consider factors like body mass index (BMI), age, sex, and height-to-waist ratio when assessing obesity. A healthy height to waist ratio should be less than .8