RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 The mismeasure of (obese) man – body mass index is an inadequate indicator of body condition JF bioRxiv FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory SP 149088 DO 10.1101/149088 A1 Kratochvíl, Lukáš A1 Flegr, Jaroslav YR 2017 UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/06/12/149088.abstract AB The body mass index (BMI), recommended also by the World Health Organization, is currently used as the leading body condition indicator in clinical and epidemiological studies and has become popular among the general public. Here we provide evidence of a systematic bias in BMI, showing that BMI is dependent on body height. As a result, shorter persons have a greater chance of being classified as underweight, while taller persons as overweight, even if they have identical nutritional status. Use of BMI should be thus abandoned in diagnosis as well as in clinical and experimental studies.