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

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   Your BMI is a crude measurement of whether or not you fall into a healthy weight range. However, the measurement is far from perfect: it doesn’t distinguish between muscle and fat, for example ...

3. Body roundness index - Wikipedia

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   Compared to traditional metrics, such as the body mass index (BMI), (which uses weight and height), BRI may improve predictions of the amount of body fat and the volume of visceral adipose tissue. Despite its common use, BMI can misclassify individuals as obese because it does not distinguish between a person's lean body mass and fat mass ...

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

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   Here’s a standard BMI chart: Underweight: BMI less than 18.5. Normal weight: BMI 18.5–24.9. Overweight: BMI 25–29.9. Obesity Class I: BMI 30–34.9. Obesity Class II: BMI 35–39.9.

5. Body mass index - Wikipedia

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   This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 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 ...

6. When it comes to obesity, is BMI really the best measure? - AOL

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   Find out the pros and cons of using BMI, body fat percentage calculations and more to determine if a person is overweight, obese or at-risk of obesity. Skip to main content. 24/7 ...

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. BMI vs. Body Fat: What's More Important? - AOL

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   BMI vs. Body Fat. We’ll start at the very beginning: Body mass index (BMI) is a measure of someone’s weight compared to their height whereas body fat percentage is a measure of how much body ...

9. Classification of obesity - Wikipedia

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   Obesity and BMI An obese male with a body mass index of 53 kg/m 2: weight 182 kg (400 lb), height 185 cm (6 ft 1 in). Obesity classification is a ranking of obesity, the medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it has an adverse effect on health. [1]