The impact of the Lancet Commission definition of obesity on its prevalence and implications on long-term cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic outcomes in East Asians: Observational study of two community-based cohorts

Adoption of the Lancet Commission definition would classify a small proportion of individuals with BMI of ≥25.0 kg/m2 as non-obese. People with clinical obesity identified by the revised criteria had the highest risks of cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic outcomes including all-cause mortality, whereas individuals reclassified as non-obese had intermediate risks of cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic outcomes between those in pre-clinical obesity and overweight categories.