Body Mass Index: A WikiFocus Book details the Usage, BMI Prime, Categories, BMI-for-age, International variations, Applications, Clinical practice, Medical underwriting, Limitations and shortcomings, Varying standards, and impact of Body Mass Index.
The body mass index (BMI), or Quetelet index, is a heuristic proxy for human body fat based on anindividual's weight and height. BMI does not actually measure the percentage of body fat. It was nventedbetween 1830 and 1850 by the Belgian polymath Adolphe Quetelet during the course of developing "social physics".[2] Body mass index is defined as the individual's body weight divided by the square of his or her height.
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