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Grip Strength Generalization of the Body Mass Index

2020-08-08

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The Body Mass Index (BMI) formula has been developed by Belgian mathematician Adolphe Quetelet and published in 1840 [1] as a law of nature and society, based on statistics about the weight and height of the population of that time, the first part of the 19th century. He called it “social physics”. From then, for nearly two centuries, the BMI had been the most important formula describing the normal re...

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DOI: 10.20944/preprints202008.0211.v1

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