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In terms of influence over later public health agendas, one of Quetelet's lasting legacies was the establishment of a simple measure for classifying people's weight relative to an ideal for their height. His proposal, the body mass index (or Quetelet index), has endured with minor variations to the present day. [15]
Body mass index (BMI) is a value derived from the mass and height of a person. The BMI ... Adolphe Quetelet, a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician, ...
The Quetelet formula was rebranded in 1972 as “body mass index” by physiologist Dr. Ancel Keys, who tried — and not without some controversy — to link body composition to health, disease ...
Body mass index or BMI is a simple and widely used method for estimating body fat mass. [11] BMI was developed in the 19th century by the Belgian statistician and anthropometrist Adolphe Quetelet. [12]
For one thing, body mass index (BMI), ... The formula—weight in kilograms divided by height in meters, squared—was developed in the 1830s by Adolphe Quetelet, ...
Anthropometric history is the study of the history of human height and weight. [1] [2] The concept was formulated in 1989 although it has historical roots. [3]In the 1830s, Adolphe Quetelet and Louis R. Villermé studied the physical stature of populations.
He wanted to explain the values of these variables by other social factors. These ideas were rather controversial among other scientists at the time who held that it contradicted a concept of freedom of choice. He also created the body mass index, still in use for the measure of obesity. Joshua Davis 15:35, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
In a 1972 article, Keys and his coauthors promoted [citation needed] Adolphe Quetelet's body mass index (BMI) as "preferable over other indices of relative weight on [correlation with height and measures of body fatness] as well as on the simplicity of the calculation and, in contrast to percentage of average weight, the applicability to all ...