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2. 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 February 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 ...

3. 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 ...

4. BMI Can Tell You Something About Your Health...Just Not What ...

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   “I’m so close to getting my BMI down,” said one of the women. BMI, the abbreviation for Body Mass Index, is the calculation used to classify someone as “underweight,” “normal ...

5. 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 ...

6. Weight and height percentile - Wikipedia

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   Weight and height percentiles are determined by growth charts and body mass index charts to compare a child's measurements with those of other children in the same age group. By doing this, doctors can track a child's growth over time and monitor how a child is growing in relation to other children.

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

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   The Body Roundness Index is similar to the Body Mass Index, but relies on more anthropometric variables. The BRI which was first proposed in 2013 , uses height, weight, waist circumference, and ...

8. Waist-to-height ratio - Wikipedia

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   Body mass index – Relative weight based on mass and height (Total mass divided by the square of height) Body roundness index – Body scale based on waist circumference and height; Body shape – General shape of a human body; Body shape index – Human health index (Waist circumference compared to its allometric average)

9. What to know about body roundness index, an alternative to BMI

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   While body mass index (BMI) has long been a go-to measure of a person's health, used by doctors and health insurers alike, a new approach is taking hold. Body roundness index, or BRI, is gaining ...