The 2022 Korean guidelines for obesity maintain previous waist circumference cutoffs but emphasize morbidity in diagnosing obesity to better identify high-risk groups.
May support morbidity-focused obesity diagnosis with revised waist thresholds; leaves open outcome validation in prospective cohorts.
, based on a significant increase in obesity-related diseases. A waist circumference of ≥90 cm in men and ≥85 cm in women are defined as abdominal obesity, which is also correlated with obesity-related diseases. These diagnostic criteria are the same as in the previous version; however, the updated guidelines put greater emphasis on the use of morbidity as the basis for obesity and abdominal obesity diagnoses. These new guidelines will help to identify and manage high-risk groups for obesity-related comorbidities among Korean adults.
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Haam et al. (2023) conducted a review in Obesity and abdominal obesity. 2022 Clinical Practice Guidelines for Obesity was evaluated. The 2022 updated guidelines emphasize using morbidity for obesity diagnosis and define abdominal obesity as waist circumference ≥90 cm in men and ≥85 cm in women.
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