Researchers find ethnicity key to accurate obesity measurements

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 16:01 in Health & Medicine

The current National Institutes of Health body mass index cutoff values for obesity are too high for many reproductive-age women in the U.S. and should be adjusted to account for ethnic differences in body composition to produce proper diagnosis of obesity, according to new research from the University of Texas Medical Branch.

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