{"id":8857,"date":"2023-08-02T14:21:05","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T18:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/aging\/?p=8857"},"modified":"2023-08-22T14:26:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T18:26:02","slug":"dr-john-batsis-bmi-is-no-longer-the-gold-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/aging\/dr-john-batsis-bmi-is-no-longer-the-gold-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. John Batsis: &#8216;BMI is no longer the gold standard&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7813\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/aging\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/753\/2021\/10\/John-A.-Batsis-281x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. John A. Batsis\" width=\"281\" height=\"300\" \/>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2807645\">a recent JAMA Network article<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/geriatrics\/research\/dr-john-batsis-research\/\">Dr. John Batsis<\/a> said that that BMI is no longer the gold standard that it was once thought to be for capturing the risk of death. Instead he believes clinicians should instead think of \u2018phenotypes\u2019 of persons. Much of Dr. Batsis&#8217; focuses on obesity, loss of muscle mass, strength, and function with aging. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/is-bmi-a-reliable-predictor-of-mortality-risk\/\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a a recent JAMA Network article, Dr. John Batsis said that that BMI is no longer the gold standard that it was once thought to be for capturing the risk of death. 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Much of Dr. Batsis&#8217; focuses on obesity, loss of muscle mass, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/aging\/dr-john-batsis-bmi-is-no-longer-the-gold-standard\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Dr. John Batsis: &#8216;BMI is no longer the gold standard&#8217;\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106633,"featured_media":7813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dr. John Batsis: &#039;BMI is no longer the gold standard&#039; | Center for Aging and Health<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/aging\/dr-john-batsis-bmi-is-no-longer-the-gold-standard\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dr. John Batsis: &#039;BMI is no longer the gold standard&#039; | Center for Aging and Health\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In a a recent JAMA Network article, Dr. John Batsis said that that BMI is no longer the gold standard that it was once thought to be for capturing the risk of death. 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