Body mass index, waist girth, and waist-to-hip ratio as indexes of total and regional adiposity in women: evaluation using receiver operating characteristi... Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were constructed to assess the value of body mass index (BMI) as a screening measure for...
The wBMI is therefore configured as an additional tool at the disposal of the healthcare professional aimed at framing the overfat and obese patient and monitoring him during the course of treatment. Moreover wBMI is an indicator able to provide information about the FM% constituting an ...
Better functional status was associated with higher BMI values even in BMIs ≥30 kg/m2. In elderly, relative high rates of undernutrition may be present in BMIs regarded as overweight or obese.Gulistan Bahat and Fatih Tufan and Bulent Saka and Sibel Akin and Hilal Ozkaya and Nurullah ...
BMI, a quick and easy standard, measures a person's weight compared to their height—this won't include their muscle, bone orfat mass. She shares that a healthy BMI number for most people is under 25. A BMI of over 30 is classified as being obese. "If BMI is used alone, it could...
To examine impact on perinatal outcome of untreated gestational diabetes (GDM) and non-diabetics stratified by body mass index (BMI).This is a secondary analysis of our investigation of the consequences of not treating GDM. We evaluated 555 untreated GDMs matched to 1100 non-diabetics. BMI was ...
When it comes to your health, it’s not so much body weight that matters but more body fat percentage. So while measuring your waist circumference is one way to determine whether you areoverweightorobese, it doesn’t necessarily indicate how much fat you have and how it’s distributed throu...
Conclusion: BMI-SDS is more closely associated with hypertension, while WC-SDS is more closely associated with dyslipidemia. However, the additional measurement of WC has only a small benefit in obese youths. Copyright (c) 2013 S. Karger AG, Basel 展开 关键词: Body mass index Dyslipidemia ...
BMI is essential in the health sector as it can easily imply that an individual may need to change their diet to change their body composition. The value can classify individuals as underweight, normal weight, overweight, and obese. Under...
We present population data on percentage body fat (%BF) by bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) in 12 287 men and 6657 women aged 30–69 y. In addition, we examined relationships among BMI, %BF and serum lipids (total-cholesterol (TC), HDL-cholester
Background:The aim was to investigate the relationships among lean mass (LM), fat mass (FM), and bone mineral density (BMD) in women stratified by body mass index (BMI) (BMI – normal-weight, overweight, obese) and to determine threshold at which body fat assumes negative relatio...