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Diagnostic criteria for obesity and abdominal obesity in Korean adults may require future adjustment as demographics change, highlighting the need for more valid indicators of health risks.
Highlights the need for adjusting obesity cut-offs in the Korean population and developing better indicators for health risks.
Obesity criteria in Koreans warrant cautious use; leaves open validation of updated, risk-based thresholds.
, respectively, for Caucasians. In the future, the optimal cut-off levels for obesity and abdominal obesity may require adjustment as the demographic characteristics of the Korean population change. In addition, development of more valid indicators that better reflect health risks of obesity is needed.
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Nam et al. (2018) studied this question. Diagnostic criteria for obesity and abdominal obesity in Korean adults may require future adjustment as demographics change, highlighting the need for more valid indicators of health risks.
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