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BMI compared with 3-dimensional body shape: the UK National Sizing Survey

Author(s) -

Jonathan C. K. Wells,

Philip Treleaven,

Tim Cole

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

american journal of clinical nutrition

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.608

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1938-3207

pISSN - 0002-9165

DOI - 10.1093/ajcn/85.2.419

Subject(s) - waist , body mass index , anthropometry , medicine , demography , national health and nutrition examination survey , obesity , circumference , body shape , body volume index , gerontology , classification of obesity , environmental health , population , pathology , mathematics , fat mass , geometry , sociology

Human body shape is a rich source of information about health and the risk of disease. Measuring anthropometry manually is time-consuming, however, and only a few indexes of shape (eg, body girths and their ratios) are used regularly in clinical practice or epidemiology, both of which still rely primarily on body mass index (BMI). Three-dimensional (3-D) body scanning provides high-quality digital information about shape.

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