If you're going strictly by BMI, almost everyone, including athletes and bodybuilders, that's why it's a bullshit metric, takes no account for muscle mass which is denser than fat, just weight/ height.
This is irrelevant to the discussion at-hand. If the standard used to come to the 80% number is the same standard used for calculating the weight status of the population at large (72%), then it's apples-to-apples, even if the apples are rotten.
Conversely, if one needs to be hospitalized for what amounts to a nasty cold bug, I'm going to go out on a limb and imagine they are most likely of poor overall health and/or don't take care of themselves and probably are in fact truly overweight/obese. Just a guess on my part though.
If you're going strictly by BMI, almost everyone, including athletes and bodybuilders, that's why it's a bullshit metric, takes no account for muscle mass which is denser than fat, just weight/ height.
This is irrelevant to the discussion at-hand. If the standard used to come to the 80% number is the same standard used for calculating the weight status of the population at large (72%), then it's apples-to-apples, even if the apples are rotten.
Conversely, if one needs to be hospitalized for what amounts to a nasty cold bug, I'm going to go out on a limb and imagine they are most likely of poor overall health and/or don't take care of themselves and probably are in fact truly overweight/obese. Just a guess on my part though.
True enough!