BMI not an Accurate Measure of Cardiovascular Risk
WEDNESDAY, 23 AUGUST 2006
Researchers from the Mayo Clinic said that measuring a person's Body Mass Index (BMI) may not be an accurate indicator of one's cardiovascular health risk. According to them, the reason behind it is that the method lumps fat and muscle into one category. This is according to the August 18 report of www.medicalnewstoday.com.
The researchers' study, which was published in the August 19 issue of the journal Lancet, concluded that BMI is, "a poor measure of body fat." That is because, according to them, the method makes no distinction between fat and fat-free mass.
Instead of the BMI, the team at the Mayo Clinic stated that calculating the hip-waist ratio was a better method. The hip-waist ratio gives a better estimate of the amount of a person's body fat in the abdominal area.
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