This health issue may require medication or some other kind of intervention to work towards a more healthy BMI.You & Your BMIYour BMI provides very valuable information about your health. The BMI formula combines your height and weight to determine your BMI number. This number will determine if...
While there’s nothing wrong with using weight as ONE factor in evaluating someone’s health (although I’d argue not necessary most of the time), weight was a necessary indicator for medication and accurate tube feed calculations during my training. One weight-related concept I was taught in...
There are several formulas that you can select when computing your BSA which is expressed in the following formulae by weight (W) in kg, and height (H) in cm. There generally isn’t a big difference between these formulas and it’d be impossible to be perfect with your calculations. ...
During medical emergencies it is frequently necessary to estimate weight to allow drug dose calculations, as obtaining a measured weight may not be possible or it may delay urgent treatment. If an estimated weight is inaccurate, it could give rise to critical medication dosing errors resulting in ...
Ideal Body Weight Formula 1. ACE Body Fat Percentage Chart This chart from ACE is one of the most commonly used body fat charts.1 As you can see, women have a higher body fat percentage than men at a given level. This is because of physiological differences, including hormones, breasts,...
Methods. Retrospective review of medication orders containing the patient's height and weight as well as BSA calculated by the outpatient clinic staff within the Cross Cancer Institute (CCI) from 7 to 15 July 1998. Four BSA calculating devices, in current use by the clinical staff, were also ...
having suffered a myocardial infarction/stroke in the past 12 months, history of diabetes or other endocrine disorders, bowel disease, cholestatic liver disease, pancreatitis, cancer, being on medication for hyperlipidemia, hypertension, inflammation or hypercoagulation, being on a weight reducing diet ...
Drugs are given to patients either as a single dose or as a dosage. These two terms have different meanings. A dose is a specific quantity of medication taken at a single time. It can be defined as a single mass or volume value. It can also...
Results: Both the compounds effectively reduced the food intake, body weight and total fat mass as measured by nuclear magnetic resonance. Whereas the 5-HT reuptake inhibitor/5-HT receptor agonist sibutramine reduced the intake of both chow and the gubra- diet, the GLP-1 analogue liraglutide ...
, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden Objective: Recently a genome-wide association analysis from five European populations identified a polymorphism located downstream of the mannosyl-(a-1,3)-glycoprotein-b-1,2-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase (MGAT1) gene that was associated with body-weight. ...