A Dovetail history article on the origin of the Body Mass Index, cited for its account of Adolphe Quetelet's 1832 height-to-weight index, later renamed the Body Mass Index in 1972.
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PublisherDovetail
URLhttps://dovetail.com/outlier/history-bmi/
Source TypeAcademic History
Reliability Tier3
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Dovetail: Bad Data, the History of the BMI
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