Vers de nouveaux phénotypes et de nouvelles nosographies : de l'obésité aux maladies du tissu adipeux

The definition of obesity is based on thresholds of body mass index associated with an increase in morbimortality. This approach is relevant at a population level but it reaches some limits as far as the individual is concerned. Advances in epidemiology, physiopathology and clinics of obesity should lead to new phenotypes and nosography of obesity included in a general framework of adipose tissue disorders.