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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Martin Winter

Clueless Brits don't know important details about own health - like blood type and BMI

Clueless Brits struggle to identify important details about their own personal health – with just over a third (37 per cent) able to name their own blood type, a study has found.

Only a quarter (24 per cent), of 2,000 adults polled, know what their BMI is, and just 23 per cent know what their resting heart rate should be.

And when it comes to identifying organs in the body, less than two-thirds (63 per cent) reckon they could confidently point out where the heart and brain are located – while just one in five know where their spleen is.

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