http://www.medrants.com/archives/2281 Internal medicine, American health care, and especially medical education Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:15:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.medrants.com/archives/2281/comment-page-1#comment-19795 DB’s Medical Rants » Maybe we should have a small spare tire Wed, 20 Apr 2005 12:53:53 +0000 http://medrants.com/archives/2005/02/22/the-value-of-a-tape-measure/#comment-19795 [...] 21; patients have acceptable waist circumference. So go back and read this earlier rant - The value of a tape measure. Possibly we should classify obesity not throug [...] [...] 21; patients have acceptable waist circumference. So go back and read this earlier rant – The value of a tape measure. Possibly we should classify obesity not throug [...]

]]> http://www.medrants.com/archives/2281/comment-page-1#comment-12877 John Anderson Wed, 23 Feb 2005 03:31:27 +0000 http://medrants.com/archives/2005/02/22/the-value-of-a-tape-measure/#comment-12877 Don't know how far this will go, but I do think waist (or waist-height relationship) is easier and at least as likely to be accurate as BMI. I doubt that Michael Jordan and other athletes (perhaps excluding top weight lifters, in the lifting 600-lb and over range, and professional divers), overweight by BMI, would look so via waist measurement. Or that Marilyn Monroe would have been considered dangerously underweight. Don’t know how far this will go, but I do think waist (or waist-height relationship) is easier and at least as likely to be accurate as BMI. I doubt that Michael Jordan and other athletes (perhaps excluding top weight lifters, in the lifting 600-lb and over range, and professional divers), overweight by BMI, would look so via waist measurement. Or that Marilyn Monroe would have been considered dangerously underweight.

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