What's India's average BMI? How national guidelines differ from global norms

Indians face higher diabetes and heart risks at lower body mass index (BMI) levels than Western populations.
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Rethinking our approach to BMI highlights the need for speed

Last year, The Lancet helped catalyse this overdue change by recommending that BMI alone should not be used to measure obesity, a suggestion that was promptly taken up by 75 international medical ...
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BMI alone is a poor indicator of health, the AMA says. These metrics may be better.

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Obesity rates are rising, despite GLP-1s. What does it mean?

In every single state, researchers expect at least 35% of adults to have a body mass index of 30 or higher, the threshold ...