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#324 Obesity Medicine FAQ

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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Is BMI an Indirect Measure of Adaposity?

B m i is an indirect measure of adaposity. Its based upon metropolitan life insurance table data, actuerial data from the 19 thirties and forties. For any of us i care my patients range from the ages of two to 90. There is this obesity paradox, which is when you really kind of cross that either, depending on your paper, you're looking at either 60 or 65. We see that is an actual am youd advantage for being in this category of having oval weight - a b m i of 25, 29 point nine if you're an older adult.

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