Posted by theanonymousone 14 hours ago
They need to figure out a way to reliably Measure OXLDL.
just got statin at 44 :(
i am not fat and workout ( although diet can use some improvment)
BMI was never meant to be used as a diagnostic measure. BMI is just a rough filter for large data sets, and entirely dependent on the average height and habits of that population.
Anyone taller than about 6'3" could tell you the recommended weight according to their BMI has always been absurdly low. If it's a printed chart on the wall, they might not even be on it.
The "ideal weight" of a person is proportional to height to an exponent somewhere between 2 and 3. Simple physics would say 3 but because tall people are not just scaled up copies of small people, it is closer to 2 in practice, maybe around 2.3, but we say 2 because it is easier to calculate.
The downside is that BMI overestimates the "ideal weight" for short people and underestimate it for tall people. But BMI is not great at capturing exceptions anyways, so there is little interest in "fixing" this.
Using your 6 3" male as an example, they are significantly more likely to be clinically obese (using waist circumference, body fat % etc) at a weight lower than BMI cut-off of 240 lbs.
It's really good at catching people who are obese who are overweight.
You're not going to die of a heart condition if you hit the gym 3 times a week.
Also nobody says "don't eat food" other than thinspo instagram pages. You should eat food, if you don't eat food you die.