Nearly one-third (31%) of us are clinically obese (body mass index of 30% or more).
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Here are the alarming facts about obesity in the U.S.: Nearly one-third (31%) of Americans are clinically obese (Body Mass Index of 30 or more).
In all 31% of patients were obese - that is with a body mass index of 30 or more - they reported in Preventive Medicine.
The circumference of your waist and most importantly, your body mass index are dead giveaways when it comes to knowing the amount of body fat you have, and the health risks you might run into because of it.
Alli is only available to people with a body mass index of 28 or higher.
They had an average body mass index of 28, which is considered overweight.
Dr David Haslam, of the National Obesity Forum, said the finding cast new doubt on the merits of Body Mass Index (BMI) as a way to assess whether somebody was unhealthily overweight, as it did not differentiate between different types of fat.
Across the country, a bout a third of all adults are classified as obese, meaning that they have a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 30 or higher.
Some volunteers also dropped out, most of whom had higher body mass index on average, which may also skew the results toward a beneficial effect of the Mediterranean diet, since the individuals who remained might have been more motivated to take care of their hearts to begin with.
Zooming-out, she views a wall on which historical graphs of cholesterol and body mass index are projected.
The findings come from a study of nearly 1, 000 US people that looked at diet, calorie intake and body mass index (BMI) - a measure of obesity.
What's more, the body mass index (BMI) of overweight people tended to rise as the gap between their weekday and weekend "time zones" widened.
Not surprisingly, the researchers found a clear relationship between the adolescents' body mass index and their likelihood of having risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
In England, he said people must have a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 35 with related health problems, such as diabetes or sleep apnoea, or 40 without.
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They specifically looked at a subset of 20 patients with a body mass index over 35.
Activities will include rowing, canoeing and cycling as well as opportunities for the shoppers of Norwich to get their Body Mass Index (BMI) measured.
All models were required to have a body mass index -- a ratio of height and weight -- above 18, the minimum limit considered healthy by the World Health Organization.
The first study published by de Ruyter et al. examined the impact of a blinded intervention on body mass index (BMI) and other metrics among 641 children in the Netherlands.
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So Dr. Mark Daniel DeBoer, an associate professor of pediatric endocrinology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and his colleagues turned to a large database of 10, 700 children in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey, Birth Cohort to investigate the relationship between the type of milk children drank and their body mass index (BMI).
The cost of treating obese patients rises as their body mass index increases.
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Women who smoke, have a body mass index above 30 or have a history of gynecologic problems are ineligible to donate.
Jackson won't reach her goal weight of 164 pounds -- a healthy body mass index for her 5-foot-8 frame -- by her birthday in February.
Unfortunately, the recent Journal of the American Medical Association publication analyzing life expectancy correlations to one imperfect calculation of relative weight (BMI, the body mass index) distracts readers all-too-eager to cling to its implications that being chubby is actually better.
The studies measured the participants' body mass index (BMI), a ratio of their height and weight, but it wasn't able to take into account their body fat composition, or how much of their overall body weight was made up of fat versus muscle.
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Body Mass Index (BMI) is defined as the ratio of weight (in kg) to height (in meters) squared and is an inexact measure of body fat, though it supposedly establishes cutoff points of normal weight, overweight, and obesity.
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Mathur also knew from her own work analyzing the gas makeup of the breath from bariatric surgery patients that those releasing higher levels of methane in their breath tended to have a body mass index (BMI) nearly seven points higher on average than those with lower levels.
Body Mass Index (BMI) is mostly a very dependable way of estimating body fat, especially for people between the ages of 19 and 50.
While just 12% of employers said they reward or penalize based on target body mass index or cholesterol levels, an additional 16% plan to do so in 2012.
It found every 10% rise in body mass index (BMI) - used as an indicator of body fat - led to a 4% drop of available vitamin D in the body.
The study, by a joint team from the US National Jewish Medical and Research Center and University of Colorado, classed normal weight as someone with a body mass index below 25, overweight over 25 but below 30, and obese as 30 and above.
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