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Body Mass Index and Melanoma Prognosis [PDF]
Dermatology Practical & Conceptual, 2021 Introduction: Obesity has been suggested as a risk factor in the progression of malignancies, including melanoma. Most studies defined obesity using body mass index (BMI), although the index is considered an imperfect measure of body composition. Objective: The aim of this article is to examine whether BMI can impact the prognosis of cutaneous ...
Cassano N. +3 more
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Human bipedalism and body-mass index [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2017 AbstractBody-mass index, abbreviated as BMI and given by M/H2 with the mass M and the height H, has been widely used as a useful proxy to measure a general health status of a human individual. We generalise BMI in the form of M/H p and pursue to answer the question of the value of p for populations of animal species ...
Beom Jun Kim +6 more
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Journal of Obesity & Metabolic Syndrome, 2017 Although the prevalence of obesity, a well-known risk factor for various chronic diseases such as hypertension, type 2 diabetes and dyslipidemia, is rapidly increasing worldwide, the association of obesity with all-cause mortality remains controversial.
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Effect Of The Body Mass Index To Body Fat
Kinestetik : Jurnal Ilmiah Pendidikan Jasmani, 2020 Many sports nutritionist noted that the loss of weight, or more accurately, to lose body fat, is the main reason athletes asking for nutritional counseling. This study aims to determine the effect of BMI on body fat. The place of research was conducted at the martial arts athlete of the Indonesian National Sports Committee (KONI), Karawang Regency ...
Asep Prabowo +2 more
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Body mass index in dementia [PDF]
European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2014 This review comprehensively examines the current knowledge on the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and dementia. The association between BMI and cognition is complex: in younger adults, higher BMIs are associated with impaired cognition. Overweight and obesity in middle age are linked to increased future dementia risk in old age.
Pavla Cermakova +4 more
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Income and body mass index in Europe [PDF]
Economics & Human Biology, 2006 The problem of obesity is alarming public health authorities around the world. Therefore, it is important to study its determinants. In this paper, we explore the empirical relationship between household income and body mass index (BMI) in nine European Union countries.
Jaume Garcia Villar +1 more
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Time Discounting and the Body Mass Index [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2005 In many Western countries, the relative weight of people -- measured by the body mass index (BMI) -- has increased substantially in recent years, leading to an increasing incidence of overweight and related health problems. As with many forms of risky behavior, it is plausible that overweight is related to the individual discount rate.
Borghans,Lex, Golsteyn,Bart H.H.
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Obesity Reviews, 2001 SummaryBody mass index (BMI) is the cornerstone of the current classification system for obesity and its advantages are widely exploited across disciplines ranging from international surveillance to individual patient assessment. However, like all anthropometric measurements, it is only a surrogate measure of body fatness.
Prentice, A, Jebb, SA
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Body mass index and asthma [PDF]
Thorax, 2002 We read with interest the report by von Mutius et al on the association between body mass index (BMI) and asthma in children.1 The finding that the association between asthma and obesity may be mediated by mechanical factors or by an alternative inflammatory mechanism rather than eosinophilic inflammation is important and …
I Eneli, W Karmaus
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Body Mass Index and Body Shape
The Korean Journal of Obesity, 2013 Background: Human body shape is associated with the distribution of body fat and obesity-related diseases. The objectives of the study were to investigate the distribution of body shape by age and sex. Also to examine associations between body mass index (BMI) and body shape using Three-dimensional (3-D) data in Korean adults. Methods: This study was a
Kuengmi Choi +4 more
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