Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
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.
Body composition might be more important than BMI. Another common body measurement tool is the body mass index (BMI), which makes its calculation from two factors: height and weight. It’s still ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
Osborn noted that in his own clinic, he and his team do not use BMI, relying instead on visceral fat scores, skeletal muscle mass and body fat percentage. In some cases, using BMI can result in ...