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  2. BMI Chart for Women of All Ages - AOL

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    Where you fall on a BMI chart provides some clues into your health. This article features a BMI chart for women 18 and older.

  3. Body mass index - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 12 December 2024. 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 ...

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

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    Your BMI could be anywhere from less than 18 to over 40, indicating where you fall on a scale of healthy body weight. This number is also supposed to give an idea of your risk for disease and ...

  5. Body shape index - Wikipedia

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    ABSI over age diagram female ABSI over age diagram male. If the ABSI is above 0.083, an increased risk is assumed; a value of 0.091 is said to represent a doubling of the relative risk. The ABSI is classified into risk classes by means of the ABSI-z value derived from the ABSI. The ABSI-z is calculated from the deviation of the ABSI from the ...

  6. 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 ...

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

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    BMI vs. Body Fat Percentage. BMI and body fat percentage are both ways of determining whether a person has a healthy weight or not. A high BMI can indicate a high body fat percentage, but it’s ...

  8. Body fat percentage - Wikipedia

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    Body fat can be estimated from body mass index (BMI), a person's mass in kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters; if weight is measured in pounds and height in inches, the result can be converted to BMI by multiplying by 703. [26] There are a number of proposed formulae that relate body fat to BMI.

  9. For People Over 40, BMI Obesity Readings May Not be ... - AOL

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    A new study finds that body-mass index standards for obesity may need to be adjusted for people over 40. The new research was presented this week at the annual European Congress on Obesity in ...