@cidertimster @datepsych @CaitPsych ASBP guidelines for percent body fat classify men as obese when body fat ≥25% and women as obese when body fat ≥30% https://t.co/ubgMx9QAEO
@RajeevJayadevan Am surprised it was used as individual measure. It's adequate as a population measure. Could waist circumference or other measures be used for that same population level purpose? This remarkable paper suggests BMI drastically underestimat
RT @EnZoStockton: @BachelorJoker Reminds me of this too:
RT @Mangan150: Using body fat instead of BMI in obesity: many, especially women, are falsely classified as non-obese. Suggested new cut-of…
@BachelorJoker Reminds me of this too:
@LeahFHardy Yes on the need to eat a larger bolus of protein to be able to make use of it. I was trying to explain this to someone last night (focus group on women's health). The risk of sarcopenic obesity even in normal weight (non-obese) women is high wi
Measuring Adiposity in Patients: The Utility of Body Mass Index (BMI) BMI may underestimate obesity prevalence—this study demonstrates that many many people who are not obese by scale weight often are obese when measured with a DEXA https://t.co/uzSlmVFkp
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Measuring Adiposity in Patients: The Utility of Body Mass Index (BMI), Percent Body Fat, and Leptin https://t.co/1KwTO0BMli
Measuring Adiposity in Patients: The Utility of Body Mass Index (BMI) & Body Fat https://t.co/3AFElyYb6j Abstract Background Obesity is a serious disease that is associated with an increased risk of diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, stroke, and
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@musical_doc @Liz_ORiordan I've always meant to follow-up on this research (TLDR - post-meno women may be 'normal' BMI but metabolically obese by body composition). I've often wondered what the healthcare records might reveal that might be of interest for
Don't use BMI as a metric to see if you're fat. In most cases it underestimates your fat. A lot more people are fatter than they think they are. Sauce: https://t.co/B6SQ9VmG3S https://t.co/IkyzC6WZlE
RT @Mangan150: Using body fat instead of BMI in obesity: many, especially women, are falsely classified as non-obese. Suggested new cut-of…
@robottomulatto @GVIrish @bmzambrano @saoirse_idk Regarding muscle mass, this study seems to suggest BMI is actually way too generous because it does not account, for example, for age-related muscle loss: https://t.co/sh2mj5KG3l
@Florenturna https://t.co/uWU831nxD7 https://t.co/CP8kiz3e4B https://t.co/NP06PECQk4 mal so als anfang...
@pjmweijs @DrPFCollins @HvAUrbanVital You would anticipate some degree of normal weight/sarcopenic/metabolic obesity in those who are recovering? 'Normal' population below but interesting demographics and sidelight on index of suspicion. https://t.co/o80hz
@DavidEnsminger1 @biggestjoel BMI is indeed useless. 70% of women declared non-obese by the BMI are indeed obese in body fat (https://t.co/FO1cVYQq5d). BMI is too nice. However, BMI is a good broad strokes tool. And it is an excellent predictor of health
@LouiseW66812633 @Dylanmon77 Das ist nicht korrekt. Tatsächlich würde ich "schlank" als "KFA 15 - 22%" (bei Frauen) bezeichnen, was auch der gesündeste Köfperfettanteil ist. Selbst im BMI-Normalgewicht sind sehr viele Leute noch überfettet. https://t.co/9
@rustnutrition Agreed - and Shah & Braverman is an indication that more PM women than are identified may have normal weight metabolically obese sarcopenia & can't afford to lose LBM: https://t.co/MJKYxDpWW1
RT @Mangan150: Using body fat instead of BMI in obesity: many, especially women, are falsely classified as non-obese. Suggested new cut-of…
...or... BMI is a terrible metric, almost as bad as using LDL-cholesterol to estimate heart disease risk. BMI (Ancel Keys paper) was an attempt to estimate subcutaneous adiposity. It estimated it badly, and a useless thing to estimate - visceral adiposity
RT @cambridge_pt: The official BMI start point in the UK for obesity is also 30 for both sexes. Using bodyfat % or simple waist to height…
RT @Mangan150: Using body fat instead of BMI in obesity: many, especially women, are falsely classified as non-obese. Suggested new cut-of…
RT @Mangan150: Using body fat instead of BMI in obesity: many, especially women, are falsely classified as non-obese. Suggested new cut-of…
RT @Mangan150: Using body fat instead of BMI in obesity: many, especially women, are falsely classified as non-obese. Suggested new cut-of…
RT @Mangan150: Using body fat instead of BMI in obesity: many, especially women, are falsely classified as non-obese. Suggested new cut-of…
The official BMI start point in the UK for obesity is also 30 for both sexes. Using bodyfat % or simple waist to height ratios are far more accurate on an individual level. BMI works for populations only. Obesity prevalence is higher than statistics sho
RT @Mangan150: Using body fat instead of BMI in obesity: many, especially women, are falsely classified as non-obese. Suggested new cut-of…
"BMI presents as an inaccurate obesity classification method that underestimates the epidemic and contributes to failed treatment"
RT @Mangan150: Using body fat instead of BMI in obesity: many, especially women, are falsely classified as non-obese. Suggested new cut-of…
RT @Mangan150: Using body fat instead of BMI in obesity: many, especially women, are falsely classified as non-obese. Suggested new cut-of…
RT @Mangan150: Using body fat instead of BMI in obesity: many, especially women, are falsely classified as non-obese. Suggested new cut-of…
RT @Mangan150: Using body fat instead of BMI in obesity: many, especially women, are falsely classified as non-obese. Suggested new cut-of…
RT @Mangan150: Using body fat instead of BMI in obesity: many, especially women, are falsely classified as non-obese. Suggested new cut-of…
RT @Mangan150: Using body fat instead of BMI in obesity: many, especially women, are falsely classified as non-obese. Suggested new cut-of…
RT @Mangan150: Using body fat instead of BMI in obesity: many, especially women, are falsely classified as non-obese. Suggested new cut-of…
RT @Mangan150: Using body fat instead of BMI in obesity: many, especially women, are falsely classified as non-obese. Suggested new cut-of…
RT @Mangan150: Using body fat instead of BMI in obesity: many, especially women, are falsely classified as non-obese. Suggested new cut-of…
RT @Mangan150: Using body fat instead of BMI in obesity: many, especially women, are falsely classified as non-obese. Suggested new cut-of…
RT @Mangan150: Using body fat instead of BMI in obesity: many, especially women, are falsely classified as non-obese. Suggested new cut-of…
Using body fat instead of BMI in obesity: many, especially women, are falsely classified as non-obese. Suggested new cut-off points for obesity are BMI of 24 for women, 28 for men, as opposed to 30 for both now. Would make obesity rates even worse. http
higher #leptin level can help classifying BMI mis-classified obesity, insulin not so (but not looking at IR, visceral obesity specifically) https://t.co/Mw5ScwzkDa https://t.co/cGxmh0l2OI
Acude con un profesional de la salud para un diagnóstico completo y certero! https://t.co/X13dQpjY2t
RT @buhringk: No debe olvidarse que el IMC (BMI) es un indicador de composición corporal total (masa grasa+masa grasa) que se utiliza para…
No debe olvidarse que el IMC (BMI) es un indicador de composición corporal total (masa grasa+masa grasa) que se utiliza para identificar riesgo de malnutrición a través de la composición corporal (screening), ya que no discrimina entre compartimentos corpo
RT @MFdezNut: @Enrique2604 @SolanoLuisa @Leodietista @nutrichile @buhringk https://t.co/w1FKPQbVfI En este estudio, algo viejito ya, el BMI…
@Enrique2604 @SolanoLuisa @Leodietista @nutrichile @buhringk https://t.co/w1FKPQbVfI En este estudio, algo viejito ya, el BMI clasificó erróneamente a 25% de hombres y 48% de mujeres. Gracias @Enrique2604 por invitarnos a reflexionar!! https://t.co/UukMtMa
@dnunan79 @pash22 @mellojonny @felly500 @muirgray @richardblogger @RichardLehman1 @latimes @NhsccJ @TammyHughes3 @TIME " BMI characterized 26% of the subjects as obese, while DXA indicated that 64% of them were obese. 39% of the subjects were classified as
@aaronlage @AJA_Cortes @MimeticValue Maybe. Here's a study that found BMI greatly underestimated obesity when measured by body fat percent. https://t.co/UYSiyWkDWK
@bbchealth @PhilippaPr And not a jot of evidence in sight! Here's some: - "BMI significantly underestimates prevalence of obesity" (https://t.co/vyJAhPmFBC) - "These results cast serious doubts on the validity of BMI to represent adiposity accurately" (h
Measuring Adiposity in Patients: The Utility of Body Mass Index #BMI, Percent Body Fat, and Leptin https://t.co/hRmXzTJTOS
Comprehensive article on measuring body fat beyond #BMI. Add inflammation, methylation for complete #health picture https://t.co/EjgPzIHI63
RT @Mangan150: BMI seriously underestimates obesity. Using body fat instead, more than double the number were obese. https://t.co/dkTcHwUd18
RT @Mangan150: BMI seriously underestimates obesity. Using body fat instead, more than double the number were obese. https://t.co/dkTcHwUd18
RT @Mangan150: BMI seriously underestimates obesity. Using body fat instead, more than double the number were obese. https://t.co/dkTcHwUd18
RT @Mangan150: BMI seriously underestimates obesity. Using body fat instead, more than double the number were obese. https://t.co/dkTcHwUd18
Apparently, the BMI shows more people as LESS fatty than they really are: https://t.co/tBgb5W3PjC #fatacceptance #fitfam #fatsidestories
@AlasdairStuart BMI is flawed, yes - but in the opposite direction than usually thought: https://t.co/FKW0WkgLHl
@SigneSJohansen @laurent_bannock (e.g., post-menopausal women http://t.co/JiWuEfkqh9 ) or sarcopenia status 6/6
@RD_Catherine You're unconvinced by notion of normal weight metabolic obese categories & assoc. risks as per http://t.co/JiWuEfkqh9 ?
RT @EvidenceMatters: @RD_Catherine You're unconvinced by notion of normal weight metabolic obese categories & assoc. risks as per http://t…
@RD_Catherine You're unconvinced by notion of normal weight metabolic obese categories & assoc. risks as per http://t.co/JiWuEfkqh9 ?
@Stephen_P_Dunn and, even that 'normal weight' doesn't preclude metabolic obesity. http://t.co/JiWuEfkqh9
@gimpyblog hmm - I respectfully disagree w utility of BMI for some demographics. http://t.co/JiWuEfkqh9
@gimpyblog hmm - I respectfully disagree w utility of BMI for some demographics. http://t.co/JiWuEfkqh9
@ProfJillCook @timcook80 Would you assess normal BMI post-menopause women for metabolic obesity per Shah & Braverman? http://t.co/JiWuEfkqh9
@DrDuaneRD @Peter_Aldiss Shah & Braverman useful tho' draw no conclusions (normal weight metabolically obese etc.: http://t.co/JiWuEfkqh9
@gastromom Not about regional fat but inspired by this: http://t.co/JiWuEfC18H
If Shah and Braverman got their way, I'd already be classified as obese (obese BMI cutoff >28 for men instead of >30) http://t.co/CIuYgPmcYq
@HrB3RT (2) Weil es Forschungsergebnisse gibt, die die Aussagekraft dieser einen Maßzahl in Frage stellen, z.B.: http://t.co/lpiQAWiC8Q
PLOS ONE: Measuring Adiposity in Patients: The Utility of Body Mass Index (BMI), Percent Body Fat, and Leptin: http://t.co/n52Xcna4pr
@CaloriesProper @HealthyLiving apologies, Shah & Braverman was published 2012 http://t.co/Znp2vQQUa1
@Claire_pettitt @HelenlouWest Shah & Braverman http://t.co/T5us5O2IMv then at what point do you discount data/categories/
@TravisSaunders Pace Shah & Braverman? (Eg, # women who are categorised as normal by BMI but obese by Dexa body fat.) http://t.co/Znp2vQQUa1
@TravisSaunders @YoniFreedhoff (as per Braverman & Shah study that mentions category http://t.co/Znp2vQQUa1 )
@RitaRubin Braverman & Shah: Utility of BMI etc. http://t.co/Znp2vQQUa1
@PLOSONE Measuring Adiposity in Patients: The Utility of BMI, % Body Fat, and Leptin | http://t.co/Ppi699oQ | @rodrigoc_90 @julio_poterico
@gimpyblog thanks - I'll need to look at paper & assessment in view of Shah & Braverman on obesity & BMI http://t.co/HeJV2bRB
More in #US would be considered #obese if method more precises than #BMI, duel-energy x-ray #absorptiometry, were used. http://t.co/vdO8W6dC
BMI has underestimated our rate of obesity. http://t.co/kJpEV9Fp study here: http://t.co/8asm081B measured body fat with xrays. also leptin
Just 36% of American women are not obese. Dating pool cut down much? http://t.co/WzWMNmzh
;[ RT @freakonometrics: "A More Scientific Obesity Test Says: It's Even Worse Than You Think" http://t.co/KitKYf50 and http://t.co/iXzGsmEE
#PLoS: Measuring Adiposity in Patients: The Utility of Body Mass Index (BMI), Percent Bod... http://t.co/8YOTMTJn
Measuring Adiposity in Patients: The Utility of Body Mass Index (BMI), Percent Body Fat, and Leptin http://t.co/ctBOnD5f {BMI sucks}
RT @nutsci: wow- competing interests is longer than the abstract in the BMI utility study http://t.co/w9jjac1r
wow- competing interests is longer than the abstract in the BMI utility study http://t.co/w9jjac1r
PLoS ONE: Measuring Adiposity in Patients: The Utility of Body Mass Index (BMI), Percent Body Fat, a http://t.co/sVUsdf95
RT @stevekass: PlosOne loses cred: pat article on BMI by quacky AM radio MD Braverman. http://t.co/WuDWcXCR (He’s barely literate: http://t.co/jASzqLBr)
Jesus, health researchers. RT @iddux: Even if you're not fat, you're fat. http://t.co/LZnDG0a3
RT @iddux: Even if you're not fat, you're fat. http://t.co/fyuTaTbz
Even if you're not fat, you're fat. http://t.co/fyuTaTbz
Why % Body Fat vs BMI! The Utility of Body Mass Index (BMI), Percent Bod... http://t.co/SsieAX9N