Why the study?
Should lower BMI cutoffs be used to define overweight and obesity in Chinese populations compared to whites?
Should lower BMI cutoffs be used to define overweight and obesity in Chinese populations compared to whites?
Lower BMI cutoffs are more appropriate for defining overweight and obesity in Chinese populations compared to white populations.
May support ethnicity-specific BMI thresholds in Chinese adults; leaves open whether guidelines should change without prospective validation.
Comorbidity, mortality, and body composition data consistently support the use of lower BMI cutoffs in Chinese than those in whites.
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He et al. (2015) studied this question.
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