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Originally Posted by flashy
Kate, anyone over 13 stone now is classed as obese, ask your doctor
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Surely that cannot be right.......they must have to take height into condsideration.
I know that when we did pre-op checks we used to measure the height and the weight of the patient to calculate the body mass index ( a far from ideal way of deciding whether someone was obese, but that was the tool that we were asked to use )
Now if I were 13 stone, then yes I would be obese...being only 5 foot one inch.
I thought that there was a move to using the waist to hip ratio to determine whether someone was obese or not.