BMI Is a Flawed Measure of Obesity. What Are Alternatives? :

BMI is the go-to obesity metric, but there is increasing acknowledgment that it's an imperfect measure and can differ with ethnicity, sex, and body frame; hence, the growing chorus for alternatives.

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