E41: Fatagories

Statistically Insignificant

We talk about how and why BMI sucks as a metric for either health or fatness, and other models for classifying fatness that actually reflect the needs and experiences of fat people.If you want to know more about relative risk statistics check out E19: Pregnancy Risk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9dC4VRD3B8Support the pod on Patreon for bonus episodes and additional material: https://www.patreon.com/statisticallyinsignificantReferencesnagualdesign (2021) 'BMI Chart', Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BMI_chart.pngRomero-Corral, A., Montori, V. M., Somers, V. K., Korinek, J., Thomas, R. J., Allison, T. G., ... & Lopez-Jimenez, F. (2006). 'Association of bodyweight with total mortality and with cardiovascular events in coronary artery disease: a systematic review of cohort studies'. The Lancet, 368(9536), 666-678.Wang, Z. J., Zhou, Y. J., Galper, B. Z., Gao, F., Yeh, R. W., & Mauri, L. (2015). 'Association of body mass index with mortality and cardiovascular events for patients with coronary artery disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis'. Heart, 101(20), 1631-1638.American Medical Association (2023). 'Support Removal of BMI as a Standard Measure in Medicine and Recognizing Culturally-Diverse and Varied Presentations of Eating Disorders and Indications for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery'. Report 07 of the Council on Science and Public Health.The video version of this episode is at https://youtu.be/ztSt_oG5ulQIf you have a statistic or a chart you'd like us to talk about contact us.Email: [e-mail]: @StatInsigPodMastodon: https://mathstodon.xyz/@statisticallyinsignificantBart can be found @SnitchinOrwell on Twitter