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A panel of global experts explains why BMI is not the most helpful measurement of body weight, and how else doctors can diagnose obesity. Image credit: VICTOR TORRES/Stocksy.
Doctors explain what the Body Mass Index is and why it isn't an accurate indicator of health, especially for certain people. Plus, what doctors refer to instead. BMI Can Tell You Something About ...
Here's why BMI is a bogus way to evaluate your health and what you should be paying attention to instead, according to experts who spoke to BI in 2022 and prior, before 2025 Lancet report was ...
A group of 58 researchers is calling for a new, better way to measure obesity and excess body fat that goes beyond BMI. Here's what they recommend using instead.
BMI may not accurately reflect body composition differences among populations, ethnicities, ages and genders. It may underestimate adiposity in older adults and overestimate it in athletes with ...
Print this story. From the 16th century to the 19th, scurvy killed around 2 million sailors, more than warfare, shipwrecks and syphilis combined. It was an ugly, smelly death, too, beginning with rattling teeth and ending with a body so rotted out from the inside that its victims could literally be startled to death by a loud noise.
A detailed study published in 2012 concluded that estimates of body fat percentage based on BAI were not more accurate than those based on BMI, waist circumference, or hip circumference. [ 5 ] Adiposity indexes that include the waist circumference (for example waist-to-height ratio WHtR ) may be better than BAI and BMI in evaluating metabolic ...
[17] [18] A 2016 meta-analysis found that MHO individuals were not at an increased risk of all-cause mortality (but were at an increased risk of cardiovascular events). [19] The relatively low risk of cardiovascular disease among people with MHO relative to metabolically unhealthy obese people has been attributed to differences in white adipose ...