We can't have health at every size but we can experience dignity at every size. We can appreciate and care for others at every size. We need to understand the risks imposed by excess adiposity & deliver effective compassionate treatment. We need to heal weight bias & stigma.
Good chance the pre- diabetes cutoff will be raised to 6 in the next year or two, watch this space!
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That would be a first, maybe? Moving the goalposts away from "normal"?
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Not sure of other examples, there may be some, but the argument is that there's no utility to having the cutoff set at 5.7, setting it at 6 allows us to better target people in need, and those who are 5.7-5.9 are at a very low risk anyway
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. The rest is speculation.
Weight-height tables were used by insurance companies to predict mortality. This is an associative, not causal relationship.
BMI has a long & twisted history, with an origin in stats, not biology. See Hite & Carter 2019.