Jawed Ahmed ¹, M. Afshar Alam ¹, Abdul Mobin ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Computer Science, JamiaHamdard (Hamdard University), New Delhi – 110062, IN
2 Department of CSIR-National Physical Laboratory, Dr. K. S. Krishnan Marg, New Delhi 110012, IN

Abstract

Objectives: In this paper, we have justified that existing notion of Body Mass Index (BMI) does not signify the body fat mass with a good precision. So a new version of BMI called BMI-2 is proposed. Method: The body has some parts where chance of depositing the body fat is high i.e., waist, hip, thigh and neck etc. Here, in this paper, we have multiplied the circumferences of waist, hip, thigh and neck with the existing formula of BMI. Findings: A person with high circumferences of waist, hip, thigh and neck would be having comparatively higher value of new BMI-2 than that of others; even their old (existing) BMI values are same. Improvement: The new BMI-2 gives a comparatively better picture of health status by including the circumferences of some fat prone parts of the body. But if we had taken the weighted circumferences, the result would have been more accurate.

Keywords

BMI, FC Index, WC, WHR, Weighted Circumference.

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