"I'm not fat anymore?"Will BMI Obesity Standards Be Different? [Anchor Report]

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Since 2000, Korea has been classified as obese if the body mass index BMI is 25 or higher.

According to this, one in three Koreans is obese.

However, the National Health Insurance Service announced yesterday that this standard is not suitable for Koreans and that the obesity standard should be corrected to a BMI of 27 or higher.

BMI is the weight divided by the square of the height.

For example, if you are 175cm tall and weigh 77kg, dividing your weight (kg) by the square of your height (m) is just over 25, which is equivalent to mild obesity by the current standards.

However, if the obesity standard is adjusted to a BMI of 27 or higher, you will be free of mild obesity.

The obese population in Korea is also decreasing to one in five.

So why do you want to change the obesity standard?

[Lee Seung-nam / Family medicine specialist: After 21 years of follow-up of 8.47 million people who had general health check-ups from 2002 to 2003, the Korea Health Insurance Corporation said that the BMI should be below 25 in the past. This time, it was announced that it would be okay to set the BMI above 27 because cardiovascular disease, cerebrovascular disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and dyslipidemia increase.]

Currently, the World Health Organization and the United States have their own standards, with BMI above 30 and China seeing BMI above 28 as obese.

This study also drew attention in that it used big data for the first time to present suitable standards for Koreans.

In the midst of this, obesity treatments such as gastric obesity have recently been on the rise.There is also concern that losing weight

will harm your health.

In fact, there have been cases of death while increasing the dose of gastric emptying, raising awareness.

[Lee Seung Nam / Family medicine specialist: If you look at what you need to be careful about when administering gastroparesis, you can get acute pancreatitis, hypoglycemia, appetite suppression, and vomiting. The doctor should pay attention to that in advance. In the case of acute pancreatitis, the abdomen hurts a lot. It is important to understand that I may have acute pancreatitis if there is no other abnormality, but the solar plexus hurts and we have severe pain. Another thing is that it's not good for everyone to take it. [It's very important to always be careful and administered because you have a small stomach, but you're not an obese patient.]

The corporation plans to evaluate the adequacy after applying the raised obesity standards.

The Korean Society of Obesity, which sets standards and guidelines for obesity diagnosis, also announced that it will soon come up with a position on this.