What shape is your body? This new body index is more effective in detecting a possible health problem

2024-10-09 14:09:00

Silvia Turin (Corriere della Sera)

Updated Wednesday 9 October 2024 –
4.09pm

Is it time to introduce a new body index into medicine that helps healthcare professionals and patients do so? evaluate more fully problems related to overweight and obesity?

The index used so far (although not exclusively) has a long history, at least 200 years, and is called “body mass index” BMIand is calculated by dividing the weight (expressed in kg) by the height (expressed in

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