• 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={Masao Kanazawa and Nobuo Yoshiike and Toshimasa Osaka and Yoshio Numba and Paul Z. Zimmet and Shuji Inoue},
  journal={World review of nutrition and dietetics},
  year={2005},
  volume={94},
  pages={
          1-12
        }
}

Masao Kanazawa, Nobuo Yoshiike, +3 authors Shuji 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 obesity-associated chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and… CONTINUE READING

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