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Body Mass Index and Suicide

American Journal of Forensic Medicine & Pathology, 2014
It has been suggested that there is a connection between depression and an increased body mass index (BMI). As depression is related to suicide, a South Australian cohort study was performed to test whether a high BMI may also characterize victims of suicide. Body mass indexes from 100 consecutive cases of suicide (male-to-female ratio, 1:1) taken from
Amy E, Austin, Corinna, van den Heuvel, Roger W, Byard   +2 more
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Lack of Adjustment for Body Mass Index

JAMA Internal Medicine, 2014
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Mullie, Patrick, Autier, P.
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Determination of Body Mass Index

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1986
To the Editor.— To resolve "the pressing questions relating to the health implications of obesity, the NIH [National Institutes of Health] Office of Medical Applications of Research, the National Institute of Arthritis, Diabetes, and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute convened a consensus development ...
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Body mass index and body fatness in childhood

Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition & Metabolic Care, 2005
The prevalence of overweight, as assessed by a high body mass index (kg/m), has greatly increased among children and adolescents over the last three decades. Because body mass index is a measure of excess weight rather than excess body fatness, it is important to understand the ability of a high level to identify children who truly have excess ...
David S, Freedman, Cynthia L, Ogden, Gerald S, Berenson, Mary, Horlick   +3 more
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Body mass index as an estimate of body fat

International Journal of Eating Disorders, 1995
Body mass index (BMI) was compared with percentage body fat (%Fat) measured by dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) in 233 adolescent schoolgirl volunteers and 179 adult female patients. Repeat measurements were made on 67 of the adolescents and 51 of the adults.
W J, Hannan, R M, Wrate, S J, Cowen, C P, Freeman   +3 more
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Body Mass Index

Archives of Ophthalmology, 1995
To examine whether body mass index is an independent predictor of cataract. (Body mass index is a standardized measure defined as weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters.)Prospective cohort study, with 5 years of follow-up.A total of 17,764 US male physicians participating in the Physicians' Health Study, aged 40 to 84 years ...
R J, Glynn, W G, Christen, J E, Manson, J, Bernheimer, C H, Hennekens   +4 more
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Body Mass Index or Body Weight Alone

World Family Medicine Journal/Middle East Journal of Family Medicine, 2013
Background: Excess weight and smoking may be the major underlying causes of metabolic syndrome. Methods: Consecutive patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) were studied. Results: Study included 1,620 females and 1,240 males. Prevalences of CHD were similar in both sexes (3.8% versus 4.4%, respectively, p>0.05).
Helvaci, Mehmet Rami, Aydin, Yusuf, Gundogdu, Mehmet   +2 more
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Body Mass Index, Suicide and Homicide

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1999
Body mass index scores for adults in 27 nations were not associated with either suicide or homicide rates.
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Body mass index as a measure of bone mass.

The Journal of sports medicine and physical fitness, 2010
BMI is an indicator of body composition (BC) and adiposity in particular. This status is the result of good correlations with indirect (e.g. predictive) two- and three-component models predicting body fat. Aim of the study is to measure the direct relation of BMI with total and segmental BC, e.g.
Clarys, J. P., Scafoglieri, A., Provyn, S., Bautmans, I.   +3 more
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INTERPRETATION OF BODY MASS INDEX

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2000
L, Honkanen, G T, Lesser
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