AdultsFor adults, WHO defines overweight and obesity as follows:overweight is a BMI greater than or equal to 25; andobesity is a BMI greater than or equal to 30. BMI provides the most useful population-level measure of overweight and obesity as it is the same for both sexes and for all ...
Overweight and Obesity in Long-Term Breast Cancer Survivors: How Does Sexual Orientation Impact BMI? Cancer Invest. 2011; 29 :220–228.Boehmer U, Mertz M, Timm A, Glickman M, Sullivan M, and Potter J. Overweight and Obe- sity in Long-Term Breast Cancer Survivors: How Does Sexual ...
The primary difference between being overweight and obese lies in the degree of excess body weight and the impact on health. Overweight is defined by having a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 25 to 29.9, indicating a weight more than what is considered healthy but less severe than obesity. Obesity...
obesity是说一个人的BMI（体重指标）超过了30。可以说是非常胖了。overweight不代表这个人就达到了obese...
The National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) records weight and height and assesses overweight-obesity patterns in English children using body mass index (BMI), which tends to underestimate body fatness in South Asian children and overestimate body fatness in Black children of presumed African ethnic...
Analysis of the data based upon the latest WHO standards recognizes more of the subjects as overweight and obese, which otherwise were categorized as normal when previous standards were taken into consideration.Key Words: Overweight,Obesity,BMI,College Students,Urban,Rural...
ObesityCognitive dietary restraintDisinhibitionSusceptibility to hungerPsychological functioningThis study aimed at assessing the extent to which personality traits are related to BMI and eating behaviors in overweight and obese women (=154; mean body mass index (BMI) of 30.5卤3.0 kg/m). The NEO ...
ContextOverweight and obesity are increasing dramatically in the United States and most likely contribute substantially to the burden of chronic health
Exercise is widely used for obesity management, but the optimal doses of exercise for improving body mass index (BMI) in children and adolescents with overweight and obesity remain unclear. This study aimed to evaluate the dose‒response effects of var
Objective To estimate deaths associated with underweight (body mass index [BMI] <18.5), overweight (BMI 25 to <30), and obesity (BMI ≥30) in the United States in 2000. Design, Setting, and Participants We estimated relative risks of mortality associated with different levels of BMI (calcula...