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clinically obese

British  

adjective

  1. the state at which being overweight causes medical complications

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The steps we can take, they say, include losing weight so that we are no longer clinically obese, giving up smoking, cutting down alcohol consumption or ending it altogether, taking more exercise, lowering our blood pressure, wearing hearing aids when our hearing starts to fail, staying socially active and avoiding isolation.

From MarketWatch

Prof Sir Jim Mann, co-director of the Edgar Diabetes and Obesity Research Centre, in Otago, New Zealand, said the emphasis was likely to be "on the needs of those who are defined as clinically obese" and the limited funding was "very likely" to be directed towards them.

From BBC

At least 2.8 million people die every year from being overweight or clinically obese.

From Science Magazine

My youngest sister has gradually become clinically obese.

From Washington Post

Maddock, who was clinically obese, had diabetes and high blood pressure, which he received medication for.

From BBC