%0 Journal Article
%T The ABCD of Obesity: An EASO Position Statement on a Diagnostic Term with Clinical and Scientific Implications
%A Dror Dicker
%A Ellen E. Blaak
%A Euan Woodward
%A Gema Fr¨¹hbeck
%A Gijs H. Goossens
%A Hermann Toplak
%A Jason G.C. Halford
%A Johannes Hebebrand
%A Luca Busetto
%A Nathalie J. Farpour-Lambert
%A Volkan Yumuk
%J Archive of "Obesity Facts".
%D 2019
%R 10.1159/000497124
%X Obesity is a frequent, serious, complex, relapsing, and chronic disease process that represents a major public health problem. The coining of obesity as an adiposity-based chronic disease (ABCD) is of particular relevance being in line with EASO's proposal to improve the International Classification of Diseases ICD-11 diagnostic criteria for obesity based on three dimensions, namely etiology, degree of adiposity, and health risks. The body mass index as a unique measurement of obesity does not reflect the whole complexity of the disease. Obesity complications are mainly determined by 2 pathological processes, i.e., physical forces (fat mass disease) as well as endocrine and immune responses (sick fat disease), which are embedded in a cultural and physical context leading to a specific ABCD stage
%K Adiposity
%K Dysfunctional adipose tissue
%K Noncommunicable diseases
%K Comorbidities
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6547280/