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BMI isn't exactly comparable between the sexes, since males and females have different distributions of adipose and visceral fat, and the impacts of these are c
by microcolonel 6y ago
BMI isn't exactly comparable between the sexes, since males and females have different distributions of adipose and visceral fat, and the impacts of these are clearly different.
- timr 6y agoThose kinds of effects would presumably count as "gender-specific differences". Previous investigations never really took body mass into account at all, which was...bad.
- rsynnott 6y agoAnd that could maybe contribute to something. There were other studies, though, which didn't take BMI into account at all, even though high BMI is a known risk factor, and generally more men are obese than women.
- pkaye 6y agoI saw this study from southern California. They provide risk ratios for different factors. Seems just being male have a higher risk ratio than being overweight. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-3742#f1-M203742 https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-3742#f1-M203742