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Obesity: Why using BMI as the sole diagnostic tool doesn’t work. BMI fails to account for fat distribution and provides no insight into an individual’s overall health or the presence of illness.
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 ...
Studies, including one led by Stanford, have shown that Black and Asian people may not be at the same risk as white people with the same BMI. Waist size is a better predictor of ill health — but ...
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.
Diagram of the medical complications of obesity, from the US CDC. Proponents claim that evidence from certain scientific studies has provided some rationale for a shift in focus in health management from weight loss to a weight-neutral approach in individuals who have a high risk of type 2 diabetes and/or symptoms of cardiovascular disease, and that a weight-inclusive approach focusing on ...
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 ...
In 2008, the first prevalence of US adults above 20 years was published, based on the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys from 1999 to 2004, finding that 24% of normal-weight adults were metabolically abnormal; on the other hand 49% of overweight adults and 68% of obese adults were metabolically abnormal.
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 ...