Bariatric Surgeon,
Dr. Sameer Badami in his erudite write up on YY Paradox Study says that BMI has lost its credibility as an indicator of Obesity.
To simplify, the 3D scan and body composition details of Yajnik and Yudnik, the authors with similar BMI but a very different fat percentage came to be known as the YY Paradox. This riveting study came as a thunderbolt to Obesity Specialists as they concluded that such paradoxes were likely to occur in anthropometrically derived body compositions and the paucity of such information prompted the medical scholars to take up an extensive research in the field.
Dr. Badami elaborates that the study was extremely engaging and absorbing. In order to examine the body size and fat measurement, babies born in rural India were compared to those born in Caucasian areas. The profound study had pedagogical implications in the field of Medicine. The sample included 631 term babies born in 6 rural villages near Pune and 338 babies born in Princess Anne Hospital, Southampton, United Kingdom. The criteria taken into consideration was maternal weight and height, neonatal weight, head and abdominal circumference, mid upper arm, subscapular triceps, skinfold thicknesses and placental weight.
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