A nomograph method for assessing body weight

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Abstract
The ratio of weight/height2 emerges from varied epidemiological studies as the most generally useful index of relative body mass in adults. The authors present a nomograph to facilitate use of this relationship in clinical situations. While showing the range of weight given as desirable in life insurance studies, the scale expresses relative weight as a continuous variable. This method encourages use of clinical judgment in interpreting “overweight” and “underweight” and in accounting for muscular and skeletal contributions to measured mass.

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