Obesity, defined as a body mass index (BMI) greater than 30 kg/m21, has become a major epidemic in industrial and emerging countries. The prevalence of obesity has doubled since the 1980s and it is now estimated that 600 million adults worldwide are obese2. Obesity affects many organs of...
Dever GE (2001) Abdominal obesity defined as a larger than expected waist girth is associated with racial/ethnic differences in risk of hypertension - IS, Choi, et al. () Citation Context ...WC BMI) and at follow-up (follow-up WC BMI) as the residual values from the gender- and ...
Obesity, defined as a Body Mass Index (BMI) greater than or equal to 30 kg/m2, is a significant public health concern. According to the World Health Organization, worldwide obesity has more than doubled since 1980 and in 2008 there were about 1.5 billion overweight adults (25 ≤ BMI...
Clinically, obesity is diagnosed by a body mass index (BMI) greater than 30. While a significant proportion of the phenotypic variation in BMI is attributed to genetic variation (heritability of BMI ~0.4–0.72), understanding the mechanisms underlying this heritable component has been challenging. ...
defined as a 15–20 percent increase over ideal body weight. However, today the definitions of overweight and obesity are based primarily on measures of height and weight—notmorbidity. These measures are used to calculate a number known asbody mass index(BMI). This number, which is central ...
Overweight and obesity are defined as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that presents a risk to health. A body mass index (BMI) over 25 is considered overweight, and over 30 is obese. The issue has grown to epidemic proportions, with over four million people dying each year as a result...
A unique clinical presentation,sarcopenic obesityis defined as the co-existence ofsarcopeniaand obesity [37–39]. The condition can be defined based on values of ASMI/height squared, ASMI/bodyweight,BMI,body fat percentage, and/or waist circumference [39]. ...
General obesity was defined as BMI of 30 or greater, according to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) definition and for international comparability. Abdominal obesity was defined as a waist circumference greater than 102 cm for men or greater than 88 cm for women, according to the Adult ...
According to CDC growth charts, in children aged 2 to 19, overweight is defined as a BMI above the 85th percentile for age and sex, whereas obesity is defined as a BMI above the 95th percentile [17]. In contrast, the WHO uses statistically based cut-offs corresponding to the number of...
They found that individuals who had obesity were 45% more likely to develop depression compared with those who had a healthy Body Mass Index. (Body Mass Index, or BMI, is defined as a person’s weight in kilograms divided by the square of their height in meters.) The link may be due ...