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The body mass index (BMI), or Quetelet index, is a heuristic proxy for human body fat based on an individual's weight and height. BMI does not actually measure the percentage of body fat. It was invented between 1830 and 1850 by the Belgian polymath Adolphe Quetelet during the course of...
Body mass index (BMI) is a common screening tool used to define overweight and obesity, and represents the first approach to assess the nutritional status. BMI is a value derived from the mass (weight) and height of a person, defined as the body mass divided by the square of the body ...
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We tested the hypothesis that body mass index (BMI) aged 20 years modifies the association of adult weight gain and breast cancer risk. We recruited women (aged 47–73 years) into the PROCAS (Predicting Risk Of Cancer At Screening; Manchester, UK: 2009–
Body Mass Index, Waist Circumference, Waist-Hip Ratio, and Glucose Intolerance in Chinese and Europid Adults in Newcastle, UK Objective - To compare the prevalence of glucose intolerance (impaired glucose tolerance and diabetes), and its relationship to body mass index (BMI) and waist-hip ratio...
course of developing "social physics"‚[2] it is defined as the individual’sbodymassdivided by the square of their height - with the value universally being given in units of kg/m2. † † The factor for UK/US units is more precisely 703.06957964‚ but that level of precision ...
Annual primary care consultation, test, and prescription costs per person by category of body mass index. The standardised estimates of mean annual costs (in UK 2016 prices) are adjusted for age, region of recruitment, deprivation, educational qualifications, parity, age at birth of first child,...
The UK Public Health White Paper (2010) acknowledges the widening disparities in health between the rich and poor. Public Health England authorises local authorities to deliver initiatives to improve population health. Such plans require evidence-based information using a validated, uniformly applicable ...
Methods We used data on 251,125 individuals of white British ancestry from the UK Biobank. We conducted Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis to test for a causal association between depression and BMI using a major depressive disorder (MDD)‐related genetic risk score (GRSMDD) as an instrument...