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Should race affect BMI guidelines? Doctors are split

Short Wave by NPR

Sep 14, 202613:47Science & Medicine

BMI is a quick, cheap way for doctors to estimate body fat and screen for conditions like heart disease and diabetes. But medicine has long known that BMI is problematic and unnuanced. By using it, groups of people have...