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

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   Is BMI Really Accurate? Pros vs Cons ... Normal weight: BMI 18.5–24.9. Overweight: BMI 25–29.9 ... It may underestimate adiposity in older adults and overestimate it in athletes with high ...

3. BMI, one of the most popular ways of telling if you're a ...

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   BMI is calculated using a person's weight ... it was meant to help describe the dimensions of the "perfect" or average man. ... Women with a waist size over 35 inches and men with a waist larger ...

4. Body mass index - Wikipedia

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   This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 January 2025. Relative weight based on mass and height Medical diagnostic method Body mass index (BMI) Chart showing body mass index (BMI) for a range of heights and weights in both metric and imperial. Colours indicate BMI categories defined by the World Health Organization ; underweight, normal ...

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

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   According to the WHO BMI standards, about 38% of men and 41% of women in the study had a BMI of 30 or higher, which would qualify them as obese. ... Researchers concluded for people aged 40 and ...

6. Body roundness index - Wikipedia

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   Instead, BRI quantifies body girth as well as height, potentially providing more accurate estimates of fat mass. BRI scores range from 1 to 16, with most people between 1 and 10, although people with scores of 6.9 and up – indicating wider, rounder bodies – were found to have a risk of all-cause mortality that was increased by up to 49% ...

7. Corpulence index - Wikipedia

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   The corpulence index yields valid results even for very short and very tall persons, [7] which is a problem with BMI — for example, an ideal body weight for a person 152.4 cm tall (48 kg) will render BMI of 20.7 and CI of 13.6, while for a person 200 cm tall (99 kg), the BMI will be 24.8, very close to the "overweight" threshold of 25, while ...

8. Is the Body Roundness Index the New BMI? What it Says ... - AOL

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   The higher your BMI above normal (anything above 25), and the greater your risk for things like type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and cardiovascular disease. BMI vs BRI

9. Normal weight obesity - Wikipedia

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   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.