Body Mass Index Distribution
Estimates and Distribution of Body Mass Index in a Sample of Malaysian Adolescents
... Khor and Tee'4 reported high prevalence of underweight for both male (29.9%) and female 07.7%) adolescents aged 12 to 18 from rural villages and estates in Peninsular Malaysia. However, [r] ...
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Distribution of Body Weight, Height and Body Mass Index in a National Sample of Malaysian Adults
... Countries that have undergone rapid socio-economic development, for example Japan, have witnessed marked secular increase in height among younger cohorts as well as improvement in health[r] ...
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Body mass index and distribution of body fat can influence sensory detection and pain sensitivity
... included in the design of follow-up studies. The highest quality study to date is by (Price et al., 2013). They delivered pressure stimuli to the skin over the thenar eminence but unlike ourselves found no significant ...
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Body mass index and distribution of body fat can influence sensory detection and pain sensitivity.
... included in the design of follow-up studies. The highest quality study to date is by (Price et al., 2013). They delivered pressure stimuli to the skin over the thenar eminence but unlike ourselves found no significant ...
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Population level trends in the distribution of body mass index in England, 1992-2013
... demonstrating that (simple) social groupings are not sufficiently explaining how individuals are diverging. The understanding provided by our results is important given the ‘u-’ or ‘j-shaped’ association between BMI and ...
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Comparison of the Body Adiposity Index to Body Mass Index in Korean Women
... use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly ...the body adiposity index (BAI), has recently been proposed to provide valid estimates of body fat ...
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Childhood Body Composition in Relation to Body Mass Index
... As seen from the data presented here, age-related increases in BMI are driven by increases in the lean component of BMI (FFM/stature 2 ), the fat compo- nent of BMI (TBF/stature 2 ), or both BMI compo- nents. The extent ...
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Income and body mass index in Europe
... Nonetheless, OLS estimates can be misleading because of a non-linear or non- monotonic relationship between BMI and household income. A non-linear relationship between BMI and household income may emerge if income only ...
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Body Mass Index as a measure of obesity
... the distribution of body fat and does not fully adjust for the effects of height or body shape, which may be particularly important when comparing figures across ethnic ...
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Comparison of body mass index and intraocular pressure
... E-mail: [email protected] Copyright: © the author(s), publisher and licensee Medip Academy. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, ...
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The Association between Body Mass Index and Absenteeism
... data distribution, the Kruskal-Wallis test was used for the comparison of the mean quantitative data in terms of BMI and the ratio of the request for discharge (absenteeism) from obese or overweight employees was ...
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Impact of Acculturation on Body Mass Index in Haitians
... Wong, Chou, Sinha, Kamal, and Ahmed (2014) explored the link of obesity, hypertension, and diabetes by BMI in Asians, non-Hispanic Whites, Blacks from multiethnic backgrounds, and Hispanics. Wong et al. showed ...
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Gender and socio-demographic distribution of body mass index: the nutrition transition in an adult Angolan community
... Angola faces an increase in premature deaths caused by NCD and high rates of maternal and child mortality due to infec- tious diseases, 14 as described by the early stage of the nutrition transition. 9 One child in ...
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Food price policies and the distribution of body mass index: Theory and empirical evidence from France
... Empirical work on the price-BMI relationship is relatively scarce. Lak- dawalla and Philipson (2002) use regional variations in food taxes in the US to estimate the role of food prices in the rise of obesity. Holding BMI ...
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Body Mass Index and Percentage Body Fat Determination in Cancer Patients
... Figure 2. The distribution of percentage body fat with number of patients. 34.71 kg/m 2 and 46.37 respectively, and this is seen in patients with identifica- tion number 020. Minimum values of BMI and %BF ...
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Pattern of fat distribution (waist to hip ratio) and body mass index in high school adolescents in Ilam
... 6. Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine, Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam, Iran Abstract Introduction: Adolescence is a critical period of growth and is influenced by different variables. The ...
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Demographic, Residential, and Socioeconomic Effects on the Distribution of 19th Century African-American Body Mass Index Values
... the body mass index values of late 19th and early 20th century ...the distribution, indicating that the 20th century increase in black BMIs did not have its origin in the 19th ...
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The role of body mass index, insulin, and adiponectin in the relation between fat distribution and bone mineral density
... fat distribution parameters and BMI, BMD/BMC, and plasma levels of insulin and adiponectin were studied as partial correlations with cor- rection for ...between body fat distribution and BMD and ...
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Intergenerational change and familial aggregation of body mass index
... adj distribution, as might be expected by the fact that the age-BMI relationship in males is parallel across this age range (Web Figure ...mothers’ distribution down to make the pattern of intergenerational ...
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Range of Body Mass Index and the risk of breast cancer
... 783 Summary The results presented above suggest that the relationship between overweight and obesity and the risk of breast cancer may depend on many factors. It is necessary to mention the passage of menopause, hormone ...
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