Ethnicity key to accurate obesity measurements, researchers find

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 22:30 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 US and should be adjusted to account for ethnic differences in body composition to produce proper diagnosis of obesity, according to new research.

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