Soon after the guidelines were published, though, researchers began suggesting that the
cutoff—the lowest BMI at which people are classified as overweight—still wasn't low enough
for at least 1 segment of the population: postmenopausal women. Misclassifying overweight
postmenopausal women as normal weight means they could miss out on treatments that
could reduce their risk of obesityrelated health problems, particularly cardiovascular
disease. Body mass i ndex is an estimate of body fat based on weight relative to height …