Definitions for body mass index
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1. body mass index, BMInoun

   a measure of someone's weight in relation to height; to calculate one's BMI, multiply one's weight in pounds and divide that by the square of one's height in inches; overweight is a BMI greater than 25; obese is a BMI greater than 30

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1. body mass indexnoun

   a statistical measure of the weight of a person scaled according to height, used to estimate if a person is underweight or overweight. BMI units are defined as .

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1. Body mass index

   Body mass index (BMI) is a value derived from the mass (weight) and height of a person. The BMI is defined as the body mass divided by the square of the body height, and is expressed in units of kg/m2, resulting from mass in kilograms and height in metres. The BMI may be determined using a table or chart which displays BMI as a function of mass and height using contour lines or colours for different BMI categories, and which may use other units of measurement (converted to metric units for the calculation).The BMI is a convenient rule of thumb used to broadly categorize a person as underweight, normal weight, overweight, or obese based on tissue mass (muscle, fat, and bone) and height. Major adult BMI classifications are underweight (under 18.5 kg/m2), normal weight (18.5 to 24.9), overweight (25 to 29.9), and obese (30 or more). When used to predict an individual's health, rather than as a statistical measurement for groups, the BMI has limitations that can make it less useful than some of the alternatives, especially when applied to individuals with abdominal obesity, short stature, or unusually high muscle mass. BMIs under 20 and over 25 have been associated with higher all-cause mortality, with the risk increasing with distance from the 20–25 range.

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1. body mass index

   Body Mass Index (BMI) is a calculation that uses a person's weight and height to measure body fat. It is determined by dividing an individual's weight in kilograms by the square of their height in meters. The resulting number is used as an indicator to determine whether a person has an optimal, underweight, overweight, or obese weight status. However, it is not a direct measurement of body fat and other factors such as muscle mass are not taken into account.

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1. Body mass index

   The body mass index, or Quetelet index, is a measure for human body shape based on an individual's weight and height. It was devised between 1830 and 1850 by the Belgian polymath Adolphe Quetelet during the course of developing "social physics". Body mass index is defined as the individual's body mass divided by the square of their height. The formulae universally used in medicine produce a unit of measure of kg/m². BMI can also be determined using a BMI chart, which displays BMI as a function of weight and height using contour lines for different values of BMI or colors for different BMI categories. † The factor for UK/US units is more precisely 703.06957964, but that level of precision is not meaningful for this calculation. To work from stone and pounds first multiply the stone by 14 then add the pounds to give the whole mass in pounds; to work from feet and inches first multiply the feet by 12 then add the inches to give the whole height in inches.

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1. Body Mass Index

   An indicator of body density as determined by the relationship of BODY WEIGHT to BODY HEIGHT. BMI=weight (kg)/height squared (m2). BMI correlates with body fat (ADIPOSE TISSUE). Their relationship varies with age and gender. For adults, BMI falls into these categories: below 18.5 (underweight); 18.5-24.9 (normal); 25.0-29.9 (overweight); 30.0 and above (obese). (National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of body mass index in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

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   The numerical value of body mass index in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of body mass index in a Sentence

1. Marc Feldman:

   People vary in that particular phenotype( or trait), but it's not one that we go around testing very much. It's not like( body-mass index), height or levels of high cholesterol. there aren't enough people who spend so much time underwater to make a really definitive statistical statement.

2. Hiroyasu Iso:

   We were surprised about the strength of the effect of television watching compared with the effects of advancing age, history of hypertension and diabetes mellitus, or body mass index in this study, we speculated that leg immobility during television watching had increased their risk of fatal pulmonary embolism.

3. Josef Penninger:

   We looked at the genetic maps of people with a BMI [ body mass index ] below 18 and compared them with those of people of normal weight and found the [ genetic variant ] that correlated with being super skinny.

4. Douglas Vaughan:

   It looks like cigarette smoking has a more powerful effect than the other lifestyle changes or behaviors. Certainly, maintaining a reasonable body-mass index is a great way to protect oneself against the development of diabetes.

5. Andrew Dannenberg:

   The main takeaway is that having excess body fat, even when you have a normal body mass index, is associated with an increased risk for breast cancer.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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