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  "id": 19523122,
  "title": "BMI alternative for identifying obesity ‘could prevent misdiagnosis in millions’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/11/bmi-alternative-for-identifying-obesity-could-prevent-misdiagnosis-in-19523122",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-11-11T16:00:53.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Science",
    "slug": "guardian-science",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/nov/11/bmi-alternative-obesity-diagnosis-body-mass-index"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Combining body mass index with other measurements and tests would lead to better care and outcomes, experts say An alternative to BMI for diagnosing obesity could prevent misdiagnosis in millions of people worldwide, according to doctors who found it more accurately distinguished healthy people from those with harmful excess body fat. Medical experts have long considered body mass index a blunt…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}