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To the Editor: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends using the body-mass index (BMI) for age as a marker in assessing patients between the ages of 2 and 20 years for obesity.¹ In the article by Bibbins-Domingo et al. (Dec. 6 issue),² weight alone was used as a marker for obesity in adolescents, which may not reflect the true underlying value. Was this approach justified? Furthermore, the assumption that a high BMI does not directly increase the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) may be unwarranted, since there is enough evidence to the contrary.³

Hari K.V.S. Kumar, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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