A body mass index in the range considered overweight, or even obese, is not necessarily associated with a higher risk of death, a new study has found.
, assessed the relationship between BMI and the risk of death from any cause, based on data from more than 550,000 U.S. adults over an average of nine years.
, saying BMI does not account for crucial factors such as body fat percentage and variations in disease risk among people of different races and genders.advising physicians to use additional measures — including waist circumference, fat distribution in the body, and genetic factors — to assess a patient’s health.according to Dr. Aayush Visaria, an internal medicine resident at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and co-author of the new study.
The study results did, however, show that participants with a BMI of 30 or more faced a greater mortality risk. Among younger adults, a BMI of 27.5 to 29.9 was also associated with a nearly 20% greater risk.
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