What is it about?
A review on the history of BMI and how it has been inadequately used to provide the nutritional status diagnosis, in particular, in an obese world.
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Why is it important?
Why BMI should not be used in the current clinical setting.
Perspectives
We, the authors, would love to see BMI where it belongs in the History of nutrition but definitely not as a tool to assess the nutritional status
Professor Isabel Correia
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
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This page is a summary of: A requiem for BMI in the clinical setting, Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition & Metabolic Care, June 2017, Wolters Kluwer Health,
DOI: 10.1097/mco.0000000000000395.
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