According to your weight and height: this is how you will know if you are at risk of heart disease

One of the common indicators for checking the risk of overweight diseases is called BMI, it is a body mass index that refers to only one thing – the ratio between weight and height. It’s a very simple formula that was invented many, many years ago – weight divided by height squared.For example, if someone weighs 50 and is 1.7 meters tall – do 1.7 squared, then do 50 and divide for a result of 1.7 squared. If the results 19-24 are considered normal, 25-30 are considered overweight with a risk of diseases, and above 30 – a high risk of diseases such as heart disease.

The problem with this index is that there are many people whose weight is relatively higher but their fat percentage is low, and the higher weight is muscle mass. In athletes who build muscles in the gym it is particularly noticeable, but among other people who do sports.

The new study published this month in the American Monthly for Clinical Nutrition wanted to check whether it is possible to divide the BMI into categories according to fat percentage. In the study, they checked the percentage of fat and the percentage of muscles in over 2.5 million people and reached the very expected result.

People with a low fat percentage – are at low risk of diseases and it doesn’t matter what BMI category they are in, except for the low BMI below 19, then there was no connection to the muscle percentage and the risk of diseases was low anyway.

The results of the study highlight the need to upgrade this index that is used so much (BMI) and to check the fat percentage at the same time as the calculation – because the fat percentage has a higher meaning than the weight.