New Measure May Be More Accurate Than BMI Z Scores For Assessing Teens’ Body Fat Percentage, Researchers Say.

reports, “A different measurement tool than body mass index (BMI) z scores was more accurate in assessing adolescents’ body fat percentage than BMI z scores,” researchers found. In fact, “more than twice as many adolescents aged 8-17 years were misclassified as overweight using BMI z scores than using triponderal mass index (TMI), which uses a formula for calculating a weight-to-height ratio, researchers reported” in findings published online in JAMA Pediatrics. http://www.mdedge.com/clinicalendocrinologynews/article/138177/obesity/bmi-z-scores-less-accurate-teen-obesity-new-measure