 The study found that South Asian women had a higher percentage of body fat, percent BF, when their body mass index, BMI, was below the World Health Organization's recommended threshold of 25 kilograms per square meter. This suggests that South Asians may be more susceptible to developing abyssal-related metabolic diseases at lower BMI's than other ethnicities. This article was authored by Syjudin Sheikh, Jessica Jones-Smith, Kerry Schultzer, and others.