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Social & Preventive Medicine General 214a9e03

Which of the following is not suggestive of obesity or overweight?

A
Quetelet's index of 26
B
Corpulence index of 1.4
C
Waist to hip ratio 0.86 in a male
D
Sum of skinfold thickness all for sites 50mm in a male
High-Yield Explanation
Quetelet's index of more than 25 is overweight. Corpulence should be ideally 1.2 or lesser. Waist to hip ratio should be equal to or less than 1 in male and equal to or less than 0.85 in female. Sum of skinfold thickness from all 4 sites should be less than 40 mm in males or less than 50 mm in females. Ref: Park's Textbook of Preventive Medicine, 20th Edition, Page 348.

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