Beyond BMI
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. What Body Mass Index Does: Historical Perspective
“Corpulency, when in an extraordinary degree, may be reckoned a disease, as it is some measure obstructs the free exercise of the animal functions, and has a tendency to shorten life, by paving the way to dangerous distempers”.[24]
A High Level of the BMI Describes This Setting Clearly
3. Limitations of the BMI: What Body Mass Index (BMI) Does Not Do
4. Anatomic Limitations
5. Etiological Heterogeneity of Obesity
6. Nutrients as Modulators of Obesity
7. Phenotypes of Obesity
7.1. Metabolically Healthy Obesity
7.2. Phenotypes of Adipose Tissue
7.3. Genetic Phenotypes and Individual Variability
7.4. Functional Phenotypes
8. Conclusions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Measurement | Value Rating |
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Estimation of body weight | **** |
Tracking population weight | **** |
Estimation of body fat | ** |
Estimating distribution of fat | 0 |
Use in genetic studies | ** |
Pathophysiology of obesity | 0 |
Phenotyping obesity | 0 |
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