Posts Tagged ‘bioimpedance’

Cats All Around, Illustration for “Millions of Cats” by Wanda Gág

Herding Cats Toward Something Better Than BMI

December 30, 2025 — Everyone seems to know it. We need something better than BMI to serve as a clinical index for the diagnosis of obesity. But getting them to move on is like herding millions of cats. Agreement on the substitute and movement toward it is hard to find. In Search of an Alternative Writing on Medscape, obesity […]

A Stroll Through the Graveyard, photograph by Ted Kyle

Percent Body Fat Seems to Beat BMI for Predicting Mortality

August 4, 2025 — After the strong and subjective opinions we keep hearing about the uselessness of BMI, it is refreshing to see a careful analysis of objective data. A new study in Annals of Family Medicine suggests measuring percent body fat through bioimpedance is superior for predicting mortality linked to excess adiposity. Bioimpedance is the method seca and […]