For instance, African Americans often have higher bone density and muscle mass compared to other populations. This means that, for the same BMI, African Americans may have a lower body fat ...

A high BMI could mean that they have too much body fat," Brull says, though she notes that "every body is different and BMI isn’t one-size-fits-all." In case you didn't see: Travis Kelce, Jake ...

Thus, BMI will overestimate their body fat, and isn't accurate. BMI also fails to accurately assess health in Asian people, but in the opposite direction of African Americans.

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You’ll find it at the doctor’s office, at the gym, and in online calculators: the body mass index, or BMI, has been ever-present since its introduction in the 1970s.But this metric of a ...

Among Black Americans, “BMI tends to overestimate Black people as being overweight when, in actuality, their BMI is high because of muscle mass and not increased body fat associated with obesity ...

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