I’m a primary care physician, and if you’re Asian, your cutoff for obesity isn’t the same as everyone else’s. Hear me out.👇🏻 Most people think obesity starts at a BMI of 30, but that number was developed based on studies in Western populations and doesn’t reflect how body composition, fat distribution, and metabolic risk differ among ethnic groups. For Asian populations, research shows that metabolic complications like diabetes, fatty liver, and heart disease begin showing up at much lower BMI

In this video clip, Dr. Asaf Bitton, a primary care physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, says we need to change primary care pedagogy. | The New England Journal of Medicine