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A Good Way to Measure Obesity? Fat Chance.

Authors :
Bialik, Carl
Source :
Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition. 1/12/2013, Vol. 261 Issue 10, pA2-A2. 1/2p.
Publication Year :
2013

Abstract

The article discusses ways of measuring obesity, focusing on the Body Mass Index (BMI) and noting an article in the periodical "Journal of the American Medical Association" ("JAMA") that found that overweight patients according to BMI were likely to live longer than others.

Subjects

Subjects :
*BODY mass index
*OVERWEIGHT persons
*BODY weight
*HEALTH

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00999660
Volume :
261
Issue :
10
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition
Publication Type :
News
Accession number :
84752456

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