Controversy continues over use of Body Mass Index to calculate obesity | Mark Mahoney
The number does not capture a person's muscle mass; where on their body fat is stored; or how their race, ethnicity and ...
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Experts Propose a New Definition of Obesity—and It Goes Beyond BMI
Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. A new report argues that body mass index or BMI is ...
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BMI, one of the most popular ways of telling if you're a healthy weight, is bogus. Here's what to use instead.
Chances are, a doctor has at one point measured your Body Mass Index to check if you are a healthy ... Quetelet only looked at white French and Belgian men, a very narrow representation of humanity.
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Lifestyle Intervention Improves Vitamin D Levels in Men With OSA and High BMI
An 8-week weight loss and lifestyle intervention improved vitamin D levels up to 6 months after treatment among men with OSA and high BMI.
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Relationship Between Body Mass Index and Intraocular Pressure in Men and Women
Table 3 shows the ORs (95% CIs) of having IOP≥18 mm Hg when comparing subjects with increased BMI to subjects with normal BMI using unadjusted and adjusted models. Men with abnormal BMI compared ...
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Why BMI doesn’t tell the full story of health
However, this classification system assumes that weight alone is a reliable indicator of health, disregarding important variables such as body composition, muscle mass, and bone density. These ...
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BMI not an accurate measure to check obesity, new study confirms
This looks at measures of fat in the body such as waist circumference or waist-to-hip ratio in addition to body mass index (BMI). The report was published in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology ...