It's not meant to be. It is, however, a measure of risk. Is y'all finished or is y'all done?https://twitter.com/fivethirtyeight/status/743184118205157377 …
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Byron Whyte, MD Retweeted FiveThirtyEight
It's not meant to be. It is, however, a measure of risk. Is y'all finished or is y'all done?https://twitter.com/fivethirtyeight/status/743184118205157377 …
Byron Whyte, MD added,
I don't tell you how to manage group therapy, you don't tell me how to prevent diabetes. How's about that?
I hate this "BMI is useless" crap. No one ever comes up with a similarly quick/easy method to measure risk.
And they don't know what risk is. The thrust of the argument is "don't tell people they're overweight bcuz it gives them the Sads."
BMI has some limitations. Doesn't work for well muscled people.pic.twitter.com/1hWlBRlCxm
Works well for population wide stats where the distribution of muscle types averages out
Agreed. The well-muscled are outliers. Around here, kids are just obese.
Two things 1 David pocock has a BMI of 32. (He plays rugby for Australia)pic.twitter.com/6UfdPWDBoj
There are definite problems with BMI, but it's still more useful than any of the other proposals I've seen!
For example, cardiovascular fitness is a good measure of risk, but takes ages to get a good measurement.
And as mentioned. Just looking will exclude these outliers
Problem comes with things like insurance. They will use BMI exclusively. I know ppl like the above denied life ins
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