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Metabolic & Weight
The Cheapest Measurement in the Exam Room Beat BMI and the Lancet's Four-Part Obesity Formula
BMI flagged 37 percent of the adults a body-fat scan called obese. On overall accuracy, a cloth tape around the waist caught far more and edged out the four-measurement framework built to fix BMI.
Metabolic & WeightThe Fat Rebound Pediatricians Watch For at Age Six: Measure the Waist, and It Turns Out to Be Muscle and Bone
Waist-to-height ratio tracks body fat with about 90 percent accuracy. In 2,410 American kids it kept falling straight through the age when BMI says the fat comes roaring back.
Metabolic & WeightObesity Stopped Denting Older Adults' Metabolic Numbers: In the Young It's Biting Harder Than Ever
For middle-aged and older adults, extra weight no longer tracks with the cardiovascular damage it once did. For the young, the same fat is biting harder and earlier. The lab panels converged; the fat didn't.