Objective: Screen all adults for overweight or obesity.
Recommendations:
- Adult patients should have their BMI calculated from their height and weight to establish a diagnosis of overweight or obesity.
- Obese patients (BMI >30 kg/m2) should be offered weight loss treatment. . . .
- Overweight patients (BMI between 25 and 29.9 kg/m2) or patients with increased waist circumference (>40 inches for men; >35 inches for women) should be assessed for the presence of obesity-associated conditions that are directly influenced by weight, to determine the benefit they might receive from weight loss treatment.
- Normal weight patients (BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 kg/m2) should be provided with education regarding healthy lifestyle behaviors, advised of their BMI and their weight range margins, and instructed to return for further evaluation should those margins be exceeded.