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Article: Body-mass index helps calculate heart-disease risk

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March 19, 1995
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Judy Siegel-Itzkovich, POST HEALTH REPORTER
Jerusalem Post
03-19-1995
I read somewhere that women with a "body-mass index" of more than 29 have a nearly four times higher risk of heart disease than women with a lower number. What does this mean and how is it calculated? Is this true? B.N., Tel Aviv

Dr. Yoni Yarom of the sports medicine department at Netanya's Wingate Institute answers:

The body-mass index is a system devised to improve the old formula used by US insurance companies to calculate the risk of heart disease of their clients. Previously, they used a simple height-to-weight ratio, which they realized was not accurate enough, so they added three body categories: frail, medium ...

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