Comparison of race‐ and ethnicity‐specific <scp>BMI</scp> cutoffs for categorizing obesity severity: a multicountry prospective cohort study
Establishing a race- and ethnicity-tailored classification of the three classes of obesity is urgently needed.
Authors
- Yinshun Peng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-1200-991X)
- Woon‐Puay Koh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5674-6341)
- Sujing Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-2806-5727)
- Jie Shen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9100-2348)
- Victor W. Zhong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9208-4683)
- Jian‐Min Yuan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4620-3108)
- Xiang Gao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7698-8578)
- Yue Huang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3913-9400)
- Ying Dong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0251-0170)
- Yaqing Xu
- Shuxiao Shi
Institutions
- National University of Singapore (SG)
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University (CN)
- Fudan University (CN)
- UPMC Hillman Cancer Center (US)
- Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Obesity
- Published
- 2024-09-03
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.24129
- Citations
- 9
- Primary Topic
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 4.89
Funders
- Shanghai Municipal Health Commission
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- National Institutes of Health
- Medical Research Council
- National Medical Research Council
- National Key Research and Development Program of China