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Vol.2, No.3, 265-271 (2012) Open Journal of Preventive Medicine /10.4236/ojpm.2012.23038 Body mass index estimation and measurement by healthcare professionals 1* 2 3 1 4 Tomás Ahern , Kirsten Doherty , Daniel Kapeluto , Maeve Davis , Una Mulholland , Edwina Rossiter4 2 1 2 2 , Irene Gilroy , Astrid Billfalk-Kelly , Patricia FitzPatrick , Leslie Daly , Cecily Kelleher2,5, Donal O’Shea1,5 1Department of Endocrinology, St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland; * Corresponding Author: tomasbahern@physicians.ie 2Department of Preventive Medicine and Health Promotion, St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland 3Department of Family Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada 4Department of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Studies, School of Health Science, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Dundalk, Ireland 5Irish Health Research Board Centre for Food and Health, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland Received 13 March 2012; revised 24 April 2012; accepted 16 May 2012 ABSTRACT 1. INTRODUCTION Background: Severe obesity has increased more The obesity epidemic continues to provide challenges than three-fold in prevalence over the past fif- to healthcare professionals (HCPs). American and Euro- teen years in Europe and the United States. Cor- pean data suggest that the prevalence of obesity (body rectly identifying severe obesity permits access mass index [BMI] 30 kg/m2) has approximately dou- to mortality-reducing intervent