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Your BMI Doesn’t Predict Which Obesity Complications You’ll Get. A New AI Tool Might.

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Sort 200,000 people by body weight and you’d expect a fairly tidy story: heavier means sicker. But when researchers at Queen Mary University of London and the Berlin Institute of Health ran the numbers, they kept finding the same awkward result. Among the people predicted to develop type 2 diabetes within the next decade, roughly 30 per cent didn’t have obesity at all. They had overweight. A different BMI category, a different clinical pathway, and yet the same looming risk. The sign

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