Obesity is increasingly recognized as a disease and BMI—an estimate of percentage of fat in the body—is often used alone to diagnose obesity. A new study suggests including waist circumference captures obesity risks missed by BMI alone. The doctoral study at Sweden’s Lund University Diabetes Center is published in the journal EBioMedicine. Obesity increases risk of developing type 2 diabetes, as well as other cardiometabolic diseases. Some participants in the study had a normal BMI, but had a higher body fat profile. This group faced a forty-five percent greater risk of cardiovascular events, more than fifty percent higher risk of chronic kidney disease and four times greater risk of type 2 diabetes.