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2. The Average American Man Weighs This Much - AOL

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   BMI does not measure body composition directly, and it may not accurately reflect the health or wellness of individuals of a specific race/ethnic group, those with high muscle mass, pregnant women ...

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

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   But BMI tends to overestimate body fat in people with a lot of muscle and it doesn’t show how much abdominal fat you have, which is a risk factor for health issues like cardiovascular disease.

4. Waist-to-height ratio - Wikipedia

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   NICE say that these classifications can be used for people with a body mass index (BMI) of under 35, for both sexes and all ethnicities, including adults with high muscle mass. The health risks associated with higher levels of central adiposity include type 2 diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular disease. NICE have proposed the same ...

5. 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]

6. Why BMI is not the obesity measurement we need - AOL

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   A big part of the problem is relying too much on body mass index (BMI), which is often used to define obesity as a BMI over 30 kilograms per square meter (kg/m²) for people of European descent.

7. Body shape index - Wikipedia

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   Thus, more muscle with a small waist circumference leads to a better risk classification. This is a significant difference to BMI. The following diagram shows the progression of risk groups as a function of weight and waist circumference using the example of a 35-year-old man.

8. 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 ...

9. Overweight - Wikipedia

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   The body mass index (BMI) is a measure of a person's weight taking into account their height. It is given by the following formula: BMI equals a person's weight (mass) in kilograms divided by the square of the person's height in meters. The units therefore are kg/m 2 but BMI measures are typically used and written without units.