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Lecture Notes

Here you can see the body mass index (or BMI) classifications, ranging from underweight through obesity class 3 (or extreme obesity), and what you see here is that as your BMI increases, your level of risk increases as well. And that's risk of diseases and mortality, or death. And this general BMI chart can be used for both men and women, aged 20 years and older, so adults, both men and women. And we use special charts for anyone that's under 20 because you take into account the sex of the person and the growth patterns as well. But in general this is the table that we'd use for adults.