RT @MichaelAlbertMD: @DeveshRaiMD Sadly, BMI is not going anywhere because other tools like Water Displacement, BodPod, and DEXA are expens…
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@DeveshRaiMD Sadly, BMI is not going anywhere because other tools like Water Displacement, BodPod, and DEXA are expensive and hard to scale and expensive. I like the early data for Edmonton Obesity Staging System as an alternative.https://t.co/4vCsRBO45Y #
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@DrMarthaGulati Absolutely, BMI remains the standard due to ease of collection and reproducibility, but this distinction is important as stratification tools like EOSS and Body Comp analysis prove better measures of health risk for obesity than BMI alone.
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Using the Edmonton obesity staging system to predict mortality in a population-representative cohort of people with overweight and obesity https://t.co/iilIc1NIAa