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Body Mass Index: Obesity, BMI, and Health: A Critical Review

The body mass index (BMI) is the metric currently in use for defining anthropometric height/weight characteristics in adults and for classifying (categorizing) them into groups. The common interpretation is that it represents an index of an individual’s fatness. It also is widely used as a risk fact...

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Autor principal: Nuttall, Frank Q.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4890841/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27340299
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/NT.0000000000000092