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The American Medical Association (AMA) on Wednesday said it will advise doctors to pay less attention to body mass index (BMI) in determining if a patient is at a healthy weight, saying the measure does not predict disease risk equally well across racial and ethnic groups.
There have been "issues with using BMI as a measurement due to its historical harm (and) its use for racist exclusion," the AMA said.
There have been "issues with using BMI as a measurement due to its historical harm (and) its use for racist exclusion," the AMA said.
US Doctors' Group Adopts New Policy on Healthy Weight Assessment
The American Medical Association on Wednesday said it will advise doctors to pay less attention to body mass index in determining if a patient is at a healthy weight.
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