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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 18 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 ...
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On October 9th, a new gadget was enabled on Wikipedia, the calculator gadget, to power a new template: {}. Unlike most templates that simply display something, this gadget allows for dynamic reader interaction. You can see an example of it in the body mass index (BMI) calculator on the right hand side of this page.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Based on the commission's recommendations, health insurers might require people to meet a minimum BMI threshold plus a secondary measure, such as waist size or body fat percentage before paying ...