BMI May Not Be Accurate Metric To Assess Obesity In Postmenopausal Women,

eports new research suggests that BMI may not be an accurate measure for classifying obesity in postmenopausal women, noting that “many older women with non-obese BMIs actually have lots of body fat.” According to researchers, “the body mass index cutoff for when people are considered obese (30) should be lower for postmenopausal women,” the article says. Researchers indicated in the journal Menopause that when using BMI, 21 percent of women were obese, but when obesity was defined by body fat, “more women fell into that category, a sign that they had been misclassified with BMI.” http://www.philly.com/philly/health/women-past-menopause-may-be-fatter-than-they-think-20180419.html