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Because it is easy to measure and compare, BMI has long been used as a tool to diagnose obesity. But it doesn’t offer a full picture of a person’s health, because it doesn’t account for ...

Here, we apply GMM to facial shape data, producing models that successfully predict aspects of physiological health in 272 Asian, African, and Caucasian faces – percentage body fat (21.0% of variance ...

However, an evidenced dose-dependent relationship exists between body mass index (BMI) and the risk of NAFLD ... Despite having an increased burden of metabolic risk factors, African Americans tend to ...

It comes after the American Medical Association raised similar concerns about BMI in 2023. The report includes recommendations from 58 experts in multiple medical specialties and from multiple ...

BMI, one of the most popular ways of telling if you're a healthy weight, is bogus. Here's what to use instead.