PMC randomised controlled trial protocol: body composition and body fat percentage predict health risks with greater precision than BMI — especially in the overweight and obese categories.
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The gap in traditional medicine
Most clinical studies focus on body weight and weight loss rather than body composition.
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Two patients with the same weight can have radically different compositions — and equally different risk profiles.
An athlete with high BMI but little visceral fat has low risk.
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A sedentary person with moderate BMI but high abdominal fat has high risk. Only direct composition measurement discriminates these cases.
The composite metabolic risk
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How the Digital Twin integrates this data
The Digital Twin calculates a Composite Metabolic Risk Index integrating body composition, sleep (indirect ghrelin/leptin) and physical activity data.
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More predictive than any single parameter — updated every week.
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PMC / Randomized Controlled Trial Protocol — https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10565148/ · pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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