BMI does not accurately predict overweight in Asian Indians in northern India.
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Summary
In the northern Indian population, the conventional cut-off level of the BMI underestimates overweight and obesity when percentage BF is used as the standard to define overweight.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 2001-07-01
- Cited by
- 410
- References
- 35
- Access
- Open access
- OpenAlex
- https://openalex.org/W2002654539
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- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:196943
Keywords
Overweight, Asian Indian, Body mass index, Medicine, South asia
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