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BMC Public Health, 2012 Background Childhood obesity has become a major public health problem in China. The objective of this study was to examine the effect of age and sex on the relationship between fat-free mass (FFM) and fat mass (FM), fat-free mass index (FFMI) and fat ...
Xiong Kai-Yu +3 more
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Infant self-regulation and body mass index in early childhood [PDF]
, 2016 BACKGROUND: Poor self-regulation during preschool and early school age years is associated with rapid weight gain. However, the association between self-regulatory capacities in infancy and weight status in early childhood has not been well studied ...
Peacock-Chambers, Elizabeth Marcela
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Scaling of human body mass with height: the Body Mass Index revisited [PDF]
arXiv, 2009 We adapt a biomechanical argument of Rashevsky, which places limits on the stress experienced by a torso supported by the legs, to deduce that body mass $m$ of growing children should scale as the $p$th power of height $h$ with $7/3
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Waist circumference and not body mass index explains obesity-related health risk.
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2004 BACKGROUND The addition of waist circumference (WC) to body mass index (BMI; in kg/m(2)) predicts a greater variance in health risk than does BMI alone; however, whether the reverse is true is not known.
I. Janssen, P. Katzmarzyk, R. Ross
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Fooling Computer Vision into Inferring the Wrong Body Mass Index [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 Recently it's been shown that neural networks can use images of human faces to accurately predict Body Mass Index (BMI), a widely used health indicator. In this paper we demonstrate that a neural network performing BMI inference is indeed vulnerable to test-time adversarial attacks.
arxiv
Tri-Ponderal Mass Index vs Body Mass Index in Estimating Body Fat During Adolescence
JAMA pediatrics, 2017 Importance Body mass index (BMI) is used to diagnose obesity in adolescents worldwide, despite evidence that weight does not scale with height squared in adolescents.
C. Peterson +6 more
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Body mass index and dental caries in children and adolescents : a systematic review of literature published 2004 to 2011 [PDF]
, 2012 The objectiveThe authors undertook an updated systematic review of the relationship between body mass index and dental caries in children and adolescents.MethodThe authors searched Medline, ISI, Cochrane, Scopus, Global Health and CINAHL databases and ...
A Alm +60 more
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The Anthropometric Generalization of the Body Mass Index
, 2020 The classic Body Mass Index, (BMI), developed in the 19th century by the Belgian mathematician Adolphe Quetelet [1] is an important indicator of the risk of death, of obesity, of negative health consequences, body fat percentage and of the shape of the body.
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The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine, 2016 Aging processes are inevitably accompanied by structural and functional changes in vital organs. Skeletal muscle, which accounts for 40% of total body weight, deteriorates quantitatively and qualitatively with aging.
K. M. Kim, H. Jang, Soo Lim
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THE THE ROLE OF NUTRITIONAL STATUS ON HEMOGLOBIN LEVELS IN ADOLESCENTS
Nurse and HealthBackground: Adolescents were one of the strong foundations for the future of the nation because of their role in development and progress of the country. Healthy physical and psychological conditions will form a strong and resilient adolescent character
Jiarti Kusbandiyah +2 more
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