Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In an observational study, Meyerovitch and colleagues used the Clalit Health Services database to analyze data ...
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What BMI does not tell you about your health
The reason BMI is not very usable for measuring an individuals health is that the BMI only takes a persons weight and height ...
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How obesity is diagnosed
The most commonly used scale that healthcare providers use to diagnose obesity is called the body mass index. BMI is a simple ...
While there is solid evidence that adolescent overweight and obesity are associated with coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke, less is known about the association between body mass index (BMI) and ...
3 reasons why BMI is not an accurate measure of your health or body weight — and what to use instead
BMI is not an accurate predictor of health because it does not account for body fat percentage or body fat distribution. In addition, BMI cannot accurately predict the health of different demographics ...
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