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overweight
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Being overweight is having more body fat than is considered healthy. The World Health Organization (WHO) classifies people as overweight when their body mass index (BMI)—a person's weight divided by the square of the person's height—is between ; BMIs above are defined as obese. Being overweight is especially common where food supplies are plentiful and lifestyles are sedentary.
Key facts
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- Overweight
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- The overweight range according to the body mass index (BMI) is the area on the chart where BMI > 25.
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- Endocrinology
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Research
350,791 papers- The Overweight and Obese Patient in Oculofacial Plastic Surgery: A Narrative Review.Ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgery · 2023
- Overweight and pregnancy complications.International journal of obesity · 1988
- Overweight but unseen: a review of the underestimation of weight status and a visual normalization theory.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2017
- Overweight and Obesity: Current Clinical Challenges.Annals of internal medicine · 2023
- Overweight and obesity: time to reconsider their role in heart failure.European journal of preventive cardiology · 2021
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- syndrome
- Subclass of
- overnutrition
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- opposite of
- underweight
- Commons category
- Obesity
- health specialty
- endocrinology
- ICPC 2 ID
- T83
- hashtag
- fat
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Classification
- Health effects
- Causes
- Treatment
- Epidemiology
- See also
- References
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Being overweight is having more body fat than is considered healthy. The World Health Organization (WHO) classifies people as overweight when their body mass index (BMI)—a person's weight divided by the square of the person's height—is between ; BMIs above are defined as obese. Being overweight is especially common where food supplies are plentiful and lifestyles are sedentary.
, high BMIs reached high proportions globally, with more than 1 billion adults being considered overweight or obese. In 2013, this increased to more than 2 billion. Increases have been observed across all age groups.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “overweight” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.