Lowering the figure from 30 could help monitor people at risk of obesity-related conditions, such as diabetes.
The threshold for detecting obesity should be lowered for middle-aged and older people, researchers have suggested.
Using a body scanner, researchers then recategorised people based on their age and their body fat percentage. “It’s likely that the changes in body composition across the lifespan, which seem to occur without a meaningful change in body weight, lead to higher adiposity at a lower BMI.”
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