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24.4 BMI

One BMI. Two different readings.

Standard rangesHealthy weight range
South Asian rangesOverweight range

Adult categories · shared scale 15–40

The standard chart says “healthy weight”. South Asian guidance already places this in the overweight range—a reason to look beyond the reassuring label.

BMI is a starting point, not a diagnosis. It cannot measure visceral fat.

How to read this comparison

Adult BMI categories need different interpretation during pregnancy, with high muscle mass, or from age 65. Other ancestries can also have lower thresholds. A category alone cannot predict your health.

Source: NICE guidance ↗
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A separate finding from the research

Similar diabetes incidence.
Different BMI.

This is a fixed study finding, not a conversion of the number you entered.

23.9South Asian adults
≈
30.0White adults

Comparable age- and sex-adjusted rates of new type 2 diabetes in an English cohort of 1.47 million adults. Not an individual risk estimate.

Study details and source

South Asian estimate: BMI 23.9 (95% CI 23.6–24.0). An observational association, not proof of causation or an equivalence for all metabolic disease.

Caleyachetty et al., 2021 ↗

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