![]() 2.7 – February 2019: Clearer warnings for underweight and overweight children and adolescents. 2.6 – August 2018: Enables the entry of separate unit systems for height and weight. 2.5 – June 2018: Improved processing of the data entered in the questionnaire and improved user guidance after incorrect entries reduce the error rate by 30 percent. 2.4 – February 2018: New responsive webdesign for all screen and window sizes on smartphones, tablets and desktop computers. 2.3 – January 2018: Secure website, encrypted and certified. 2.2 – October 2017: For checking purposes, the height and weight used for BMI calculation are shown with the result. It results in higher BMI limits for women, for young adults and for persons older than seventy years of age.Ģ.1 – October 2016: Separate calculation for Asian users. Recalibration according to the newly published BMI and health-risk data of more than three million persons. 1.4 – March 2016: Introduction of the "SBMI scale of 70 points". 1.3 – February 2016: Removal of user-comparison to the general population, due to its irrelevance for goal-setting. Improvment of some unclear text elements. 1.2 – December 2015: Corrected an error that overrated the health risk in some young adults. The ideal range of the SBMI is 30/70 to 39/70 or, in words, "between thirty and thirty-nine points out of seventy".ġ.1 – April 2015: Mobile-friendly layout. And thirdly, the significance of the body weight for your health can easily be derived from the SBMI but not from the BMI: The weight-related health risk levels shown in green, yellow, orange and red (see the SBMI chart on the Results page), are always 10/70 SBMI points wide. ![]() Secondly, the SBMI is a purely comparative figure (without any physical units) on a scale of 70 points. The SBMI differs from the BMI in three important aspects.įirstly, it takes age and sex into account, besides weight and height. This calculator functions on the basis of the newly developed Smart Body Mass Index. For an explanation, see "Why SBMI?" below. between BMI 18.5 and 25, beginning at the age of 20 years. This chart shows the "ideal" range of BMI from birth to old age (dark green) and the "normal weight" range (light green) according to the WHO, i.e.
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