The Straits Times13d
Korean study finds ‘obese’ BMI may actually be healthiest, urges threshold to be raised to 27
SEOUL - In South Korea, a body mass index (BMI) over 25 is considered “obese”, but recent research suggests the healthiest ...
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BMI Is Misleading—Could Your ‘Body Roundness Index’ Be a Better Health Indicator?
Experts say that BRI could be a more accurate predictor of health risk than BMI, which has been criticized as flawed and ...
Data suggest cardiometabolic risk of a higher BMI may be underestimated in taller populations worldwide
58 (95% CI 1.12–2.23) in the lowest height category (≤150 cm) to 2.85 (95% CI 2.37–3.42) in the highest height category (>180 ...
Too Old to Operate20d
Cardiac Remodeling Across BMI Classes and the Impact of Weight Loss
The following is a summary of “Echocardiographic Assessment of Cardiac Remodeling According to Obesity Class,” published in the November 2024 issue of Cardiology by Prajapati et al. Obesity is linked ...