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Doug Manuel
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Scientist, prof, public health physician, family doctor. Open science advocate. @doug_manuel@fosstodon.org projectbiglife.ca https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0912-0845
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Great to see renewed calls to redefine obesity by waist circumference. But how do we measure it in practice? I just rediscovered my 20-year-old #PHAC tape measure.📏
Go #ImplementationScience. #PublicHealth #Obesity @thelancet.bsky.social
https://www.thelancet.com/infographics-do/clinical-obesity-25 Flow diagram for diagnosing obesity from The Lancet. Infographic titled ‘Excess body fat?’ outlines criteria for confirming excess body fat. It provides three diagnostic options: 1) at least one measurement of body size and BMI, 2) at least two measurements of body size regardless of BMI, and 3) direct body fat measurement via methods like a DEXA scan. For body size measurements, three thresholds are defined: waist circumference (≥102 cm for men, ≥88 cm for women), waist-to-hip ratio (>0.90 for men, >0.85 for women), and waist-to-height ratio (>0.50 for all). It notes that excess body fat can also be pragmatically assumed if BMI is >40 kg/m².
January 20, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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@CJPH_JCSP marks 50 years of the Lalonde Report, with @LauraCRosella outlining the journal's vision under her new editorship. "Both a challenge and a gift of public health is that it touches the full continuum of the human experience more than any other discipline." #Canada #publichealth
April 3, 2024 at 10:57 AM