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2. Is BMI Really Accurate? Pros vs Cons - AOL

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   BMI may not be appropriate for measuring weight in pregnant women, elderly adults or individuals with significant muscle mass, which can lead to inaccurately interpreted health risks. Alessandro ...

3. For People Over 40, BMI Obesity Readings May Not be Accurate

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   A new study finds that the body-mass index may be less accurate for people over age 40. ... According to the WHO BMI standards, about 38% of men and 41% of women in the study had a BMI of 30 or ...

4. BMI vs. Body Fat: What's More Important? - AOL

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   BMI also doesn’t account for certain biological differences between men and women. It isn’t always helpful for diagnosing abdominal obesity, or obesity around the center of the body, either.

5. Air displacement plethysmography - Wikipedia

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   Air-displacement plethysmography offers several advantages over established reference methods, including a quick, comfortable, automated, noninvasive, and safe measurement process, and accommodates various subject types (e.g., children, obese, elderly, and disabled persons). [1]

6. Body fat percentage - Wikipedia

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   The widely used body mass index (BMI) provides a measure that allows the comparison of the adiposity of individuals of different heights and weights. While BMI largely increases as adiposity increases, due to differences in body composition, other indicators of body fat give more accurate results; for example, individuals with greater muscle ...

7. Sarcopenic obesity - Wikipedia

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   Sarcopenic obesity is a combination of two disease states, sarcopenia and obesity.Sarcopenia is the muscle mass/strength/physical function loss associated with increased age, [1] and obesity is based off a weight to height ratio or body mass index (BMI) that is characterized by high body fat or being overweight.