A new study suggests there may be a better way than BMI to standardize how we measure health outcomes, and they refer to it as body roundness.
New research suggests incorporating waist circumference into how we predict health outcomes, instead of relying on BMI. Study authors say BMI does not take into account muscle mass or the links between abdominal fat and poorer health, among other downfalls of the measurement.
It relied only on Belgian men and did not take women and/or non-Caucasians into account, the British Journal of General Practice authors noted. As other researchers note, it was also not meant to inform medicine or predict health outcomes.By looking only at height and weight, the BMI might measure general obesity but it doesn't distinguish body fat from muscle mass, said the recent study’s co-author Wenquan Niu, Ph.D., at the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine in China.
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