Body Mass Index topic pages In a departure from the simplicity of an old sitemap that only lists local pages, I am led to believe that having some external links to authority pages, such as the CDC body mass index page, would benefit my own major internal pages such as my own: Advanced Body Mass […]

Using data from a dual energy absorptiometry study, to analyse BMI body mass index cutoffs A study of Switzerland hospital employees, of mean age 38.1, had male mean BMI of 21.7 and female mean BMI of 21.6. That’s an extraordinarily weird, too low, non-representative sample. You should ignore their abstract. They defined obesity, based on […]

A big study of Canadians BMI, and does body mass index affect health? This article used the standard WHO criteria1 for body mass index, defining BMI > 25.0 as "overweight" and BMI>30.0 as "obese". However, the article mentions a specific Canadian BMI criteria, which is BMI<20.0 is "underweight", BMI >25.0 is "some excess weight", and […]

Comments and body mass index review To summarize this article’s criticisms of Body Mass Index as a classifier of obesity: 1. Aging With aging, body fat increases and muscle diminishes. Body weight and Body Mass index can stay stable during these changes. This chart comes from Cohn1, illustrating that body weight (and BMI) were stable, […]