A clinic uses the Metropolitan height/weight tables to assess weight. Characteristics of the Metropolitan height/weight tables include all of the following except:
a. accounts for lean body mass
b. weights are according to body frame
c. tables are based on 20 years of mortality rates
d. tables are from 1959 and 1983 - weights are higher in the latter
Answer: a. accounts for lean body mass
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