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Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

Nature, 2019
Body-mass index (BMI) has increased steadily in most countries in parallel with a rise in the proportion of the population who live in cities1,2. This has led to a widely reported view that urbanization is one of the most important drivers of the global ...
Honor Bixby +499 more
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Body Mass Index: A Scientific Evidence-Based Inquiry

Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, 2002
OBJECTVE: To objectively and critically assess body mass index and to propose alternatives for relating body weight and height that are evidence-based and that eliminate or reduce the limitations of the body mass index.
Djalma Rabelo Ricardo, Claudio Gil Soares de Araújo +1 more
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Anthropometric discriminators of type 2 diabetes among White and Black American adults [PDF]

, 2016
BACKGROUND: The aim of the present study was to determine the best anthropometric discriminators of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) among White and Black males and females in a large US sample.
Gachupin, Francine C +5 more
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Body-Mass Index in 2.3 Million Adolescents and Cardiovascular Death in Adulthood.

New England Journal of Medicine, 2016
BACKGROUND In light of the worldwide increase in childhood obesity, we examined the association between body-mass index (BMI) in late adolescence and death from cardiovascular causes in adulthood.
G. Twig +11 more
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Body mass index and lifetime healthcare utilization

BMC Health Services Research, 2019
Background Overweight and obesity is a major global public health challenge, and understanding the implications for healthcare systems is essential for policy planning.
Christina Hansen Edwards, Eline Aas, Jonas Minet Kinge +2 more
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Higher Body Mass Index May Increase Prehypertension Risk [PDF]

, 2011
Background: Obesity can create various health problems, one of which is hypertension. Many studies show a relationship between obesity and hypertension, however few reports on Indonesia.
Permanasari, Y. (Yurista), Rachmawati, R. (Rika) +1 more
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Self-consistent size and velocity distributions of collisional cascades [PDF]

, 2011
The standard theoretical treatment of collisional cascades derives a steady-state size distribution assuming a single constant velocity dispersion for all bodies regardless of size. Here we relax this assumption and solve self-consistently for the bodies' steady-state size and size-dependent velocity distributions.
arxiv +1 more source

Body mass index and body composition in relation to 14 cardiovascular conditions in UK Biobank: a Mendelian randomization study

European Heart Journal, 2019
Aims The causal role of adiposity for several cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) is unclear. Our primary aim was to apply the Mendelian randomization design to investigate the associations of body mass index (BMI) with 13 CVDs and arterial hypertension.
S. Larsson +4 more
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Body adiposity index utilization in a Spanish Mediterranean population: comparison with the body mass index. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
BACKGROUND: Body fat content and fat distribution or adiposity are indicators of health risk. Several techniques have been developed and used for assessing and/or determining body fat or adiposity. Recently, the Body Adiposity Index (BAI), which is based
Angel A López +6 more
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Aplikasi Simulasi Body Mass Index Berbasis Web dengan Menggunakan Metode Fuzzy Logic [PDF]

, 2016
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Kalua, A. L. (Aditya) +2 more
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