[6] In 2015, Sultan Babar showed that CI does not need to be adjusted for height after adolescence.
The corpulence index yields valid results even for very short and very tall persons,[7] which is a problem with BMI — for example, an ideal body weight for a person 152.4 cm tall (48 kg) will render BMI of 20.7 and CI of 13.6, while for a person 200 cm tall (99 kg), the BMI will be 24.8, very close to the "overweight" threshold of 25, while CI will be 12.4.
[11]) The normal values for infants are about twice as high as for adults, which is the result of their relatively short legs.
[6] It has also been shown to have a lower false positive rate in athletes.
[12] The corpulence index is variously defined (the first definition should be preferred due to the use of SI-units kg and m) as follows: literature, it is not a meaningful corpulence index and should not be used.
For infants, units of grams and centimeters are used instead, then the value is multiplied by 100.