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by relaxing 603 days ago
Sickle cell isn’t affected by social matters, unlike body fat.
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I'm not sure if you're following what I am saying. The same body fat percentage leads to different health outcomes for members of different races in aggregate because of different genetic predispositions. Someone of one race with BMI X is likely to have a different risk profile than someone of a different race with BMI X no matter what X is, high or low. This is not a social matter. We're just talking about heath statistics, not aesthetics.

That's not to say there aren't social aspects to obesity as well (obviously) but that's not what we're talking about right now, and parent dragging that in is just a distraction.

From [1] in the comment you replied:

> Access to medications and surgery should be improved, in part by updating US indications for therapies to reflect race‐specific obesity thresholds and through inclusion of Asian American people of all subtypes with lower BMI values in clinical trials.