According to the consensus guidelines followed in Indian clinical practice, an adult Asian Indian is classified as obese at which body mass index cut-off?

• A 25 kg/m2 ✓
• B 27.5 kg/m2
• C 30 kg/m2
• D 23 kg/m2

Explanation

For Asian Indians, the consensus classification sets overweight at BMI 23 to 24.9 kg/m2 and obesity at 25 kg/m2 and above, lower than the WHO international cut-offs of 25 and 30 respectively, because cardiometabolic risk begins at lower BMI in this population. Option D (23) marks overweight, not obesity, and option C is the WHO global cut-off for obesity that overestimates healthy weight in Indians. Waist cut-offs used are 90 cm in men and 80 cm in women.

Reference: Park's Textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine, 27th ed.

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