Nick Trefethen
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7 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2013
last heard Jan 2013
Nick Trefethen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The formula I have recommended as something to explore...
Changes from weight over height squared to 1.3 times your weight in kilograms
divided by your height in metres, to the 2.5 power.
No, the truth is that my proposed alternative is not based on careful epidemiology, and that's why I'm trying to emphasise
that it's a proposal of a possibility.
There is a literature there that suggests that it should be a power of more like 2.5 or even 2 and 2 thirds.
Whether that matches medical data, there's been some puzzlement about.
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