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. 2016 Oct 25;40(12):1906–1914. doi: 10.1038/ijo.2016.176

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Pie charts showing the proportions of the Mauritian population studied here (n= 175) who are underweight (UW, black shading), normal weight (NW, light gray shading), overweight (OW, dark gray shading) and obese (OB, red shading) according to WHO cut-offs for BMI or according to BMI cut-offs for BMI derived from Mauritian ethnic-specific BMI–Fat% relationship (with fat% measured by D20 dilution technique) and using either the Gallagher et al.¹⁸ equation or the Deurenberg et al.¹⁶ equation.