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A bmi of 50 or more

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Morbidly A Beast   United States
Joined 3 years
Munchies:
From what I gather from OP, he's more interested in size than any complications.


I think they reclassified it to only >40 bmi because they didn’t find anything special about being over 40 bmi, at least medically. But that part makes sense, it’s just a size comparison thing which makes sense
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Bigwideland   Australia
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Australia in 2023 statistics had 4.6% of adults with a bmi more than 40. Up from 2.2 in 2007.
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Slayright   United Kingdom
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Morbidly A Beast:
I don’t think bmi is an indicator of much, given how few conditions I have relative to what I should have given my bmi is 76
In general, it is more about how the weight was gained as opposed to how much. (to a certain point.)
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Jakeescape99   United States
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Jakeescape99:
According to Chat-GPT, only 0.25% of the US population has a BMI of 50 or more. I seriously thought that it was way more than that lol. I'd have to be over 400lbs to hit that BMI, but I think that's going to have to be my goal lol.

Munchies:
Thus is a beautiful example of why you should not use Chat-GPT for research.

The highest BMI category the CDC and the NIH track is 40 or more - which is severe obesity. This is a little over 9% of the US population. There's no tracking for Americans with a BMI of 50% or more.

In other words, Chat-GPT hallucinated this information.


Yeah, you're right, but Chat-GPT still has a relatively high accuracy rate. This is extrapolated from other data, but if it's true (or close to true) I love that many of us have goals that are that high lol.
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Stchilis   Viet Nam
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Space Waves said:
Using >40 BMI as a threshold feels more like a way to standardize language around “size” categories rather than saying something fundamentally changes health-wise at that exact number.
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Munchies   United States
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Stchilis:
Space Waves said:
Using >40 BMI as a threshold feels more like a way to standardize language around “size” categories rather than saying something fundamentally changes health-wise at that exact number.


I mean ... yeah. No one was really talking about health here.
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BigBallBellyGirl   United States
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Yeah, 9 percent sounds far more accurate for people with a BMI of 40 or more. I'd imagine there are also regional variances.

Last year I was around 615 pounds when I had emergency surgery, meaning my BMI was about 108.9. in discussing my treatment, my medical team had to factor in accessibility of the OR and accomodations needed. My surgeon candidly, though respectfully, said he had conferred with his colleagues to explore options, but none had treated a patient my size at that hospital or others in the area. They had to bring in a platform for the OR staff to stand on during surgery and make some other adjustments. That said, though data is not collected, I'd guess people my size are less than 1 percent of the population.
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