When It Comes to Health, Muscle Mass Matters

The Doctor Weighs In
5 min readJan 13, 2019

By: Suzette Pereira Ph.D

Muscle mass plays a huge role in predicting health outcomes and yet is rarely assessed in clinical practice.

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Most doctors use BMI to assess health, which is overlooking a major vital sign — muscle mass.

For decades, our society has been using a person’s body mass index, commonly known as BMI, to determine a…

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