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Moving Beyond Scales and Tapes: The Edmonton Obesity Staging System

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Edmonton Obesity Staging System, or EOSS, represents a simple clinical staging framework that provides an indication of obesity-related disease extent and severity. In addition, it is a better predictor of mortality than current anthropometric measures of obesity such as BMI or WC. Thus, EOSS not only has the potential to enhance clinical decision-making but could also serve as a useful tool for researchers, payers, and policy makers to better define the impact of excess body fat on health and well-being.

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  1. Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Li Ka Shing Building, Rm 1-11687th Avenue and 112th Street, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2E1, Canada

    Arya M. Sharma MD, FRCPC

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  1. Watton Place Clinic, Watton-at-Stone, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

    David W. Haslam

  2. Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    Arya M. Sharma

  3. Department of Pathology, Diabetes Complications Research Centre, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    Carel W. le Roux

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Sharma, A.M. (2014). Moving Beyond Scales and Tapes: The Edmonton Obesity Staging System. In: Haslam, D., Sharma, A., le Roux, C. (eds) Controversies in Obesity. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2834-2_17

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