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Without adjusting for BMIs it doesn't tell us that much about causality. If you could get that data that would be huge.


I just recently read that BMI is turning out to be a not so great measure of things now.

http://www.nature.com/ijo/journal/vaop/naam/abs/ijo201617a.h...

" Using BMI categories as the main indicator of health, an estimated 74 936 678 US adults are misclassified as cardiometabolically unhealthy or cardiometabolically healthy. "




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