Health● Low46m ago · Nov 11, 2026, 4:00 PM
BMI is not enough to know who has obesity and misses some cases
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Measuring where fat is in the body and if it already harms organs identifies more people with obesity than the weight and height calculation used today, the Body Mass Index (BMI). A study published this Wednesday (11) in Nature, with 844,108 adults.
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