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Withings: Leverage technology for more reliable definition of obesity

March 5, 2025HME News Staff

BOSTON – Nearly 40% of consumers classified as overweight or obese under traditional body mass index (BMI) definitions would no longer carry that diagnosis under newly proposed criteria recently published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, according to an analysis by Withings. Withings, which has been offering scales with body composition assessment since 2009, analyzed data from 3.4 million anonymized users aged between 20 and 79 years old and found: More than a third (38.4%)...

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