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Obesity Pillars Roundtable: Body mass index and body composition in Black and Female individuals. Race-relevant or racist? Sex-relevant or sexist?

BACKGROUND: Body mass index (BMI or weight in kilograms/height in meters(2)) is the most common metric to diagnose overweight and obesity. However, a body composition analysis more thoroughly assesses adiposity, percent body fat, lean body mass (i.e., including skeletal muscle), and sometimes bone m...

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Autores principales: Bays, Harold Edward, Gonsahn-Bollie, Sylvia, Younglove, Courtney, Wharton, Sean
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10662008/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37990673
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.obpill.2022.100044