• DOI:10.1159/000088200
Corpus ID: 19963495

Criteria and classification of obesity in Japan and Asia-Oceania.

@article{Kanazawa2005CriteriaAC,
  title={Criteria and classification of obesity in Japan and Asia-Oceania.},
  author={M. Kanazawa and N. Yoshiike and T. Osaka and Yoshio Numba and P. Zimmet and S. Inoue},
  journal={World review of nutrition and dietetics},
  year={2005},
  volume={94},
  pages={
          1-12
        }
}

• M. Kanazawa, N. Yoshiike, +3 authors S. Inoue
• Published 2005
• Medicine
• World review of nutrition and dietetics

In 1997 when WHO initiated the formation of the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF), the Task Force proposed the cut-offs for overweight and obesity as BMI 25 and BMI 30, respectively. If we accept the criteria of BMI ≥ 30 to indicate obesity, it would appear that the prevalence of obesity in Japan of less than 3% has changed little during the last 40 years, and we cannot explain the rapid increase in incidence of obesityassociated chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and… Expand