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Letter: It is time to rethink the equation for BMI

Published 28 September 2022

From Larry Stoter, The Narth, Monmouthshire, UK

Body mass index – weight divided by height squared – has always seemed questionable to me (10 September, p 28). Wouldn’t weight divided by height cubed, a rough measurement of density, be better?

Issue no. 3406 published 1 October 2022

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