Allometric scaling of weight to height and resulting body mass index thresholds in two Asian populations

Hood, Karoline; Ashcraft, Jacob; Watts, Krista; Hong, Sangmo; Choi, Woong; Heymsfield, Steven B.; Gautam, Rajesh K.; Thomas, Diana M.

Allometric scaling of weight to height and resulting body mass index thresholds in two Asian populations

Date

2019

Authors

Heymsfield, Steven B.

Gautam, Rajesh K.

Thomas, Diana M.

Publisher

Nutrition & Diabetes

Abstract

Body mass index (BMI) represents a normalization of weight to height and is used to classify adiposity. While the capacity of BMI as an adiposity index has been experimentally validated in Caucasians, but there has been little testing Asian populations.

Keywords

Body mass index (BMI)

Citation

Hood, K., Ashcraft, J., Watts, K. et al. Allometric scaling of weight to height and resulting body mass index thresholds in two Asian populations. Nutr & Diabetes 9, 2 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41387-018-0068-3