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Body mass index (BMI) alone may not be enough to measure someone's risk of cardiometabolic disease, according to researchers at UTHealth Houston. The research, led by a team from the Border Health Research Cohort at UTHealth Houston School of Public Health, focused on the relationship between adiposity, or excess fat tissue, and cardiometabolic disease in adults. Cardiometabolic disease is a group of health problems like heart disease and diabetes that are often caused by thi