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Body mass index (BMI or weight in kilograms/height in meters2) is the most common metric to diagnose overweight and obesity. However, a body composition analysis more thoroughly assesses adiposity, percent body fat, lean body mass (i.e., including ...
Abstract. Differences in obesity and body fat distribution across gender and race/ethnicity have been extensively described. We sought to replicate these differences and evaluate newly emerging data from the All of Us Research Program (AoU).
18 Νοε 2022 · This roundtable examines considerations of BMI in Black and female individuals. Results: The panelists agreed that body composition assessment was a more accurate measure of adiposity and muscle mass than BMI. When it came to matters of race and sex, one panelist felt: "race is a social construct and not a defining biology."
18 Οκτ 2021 · Body mass index (BMI) is an easy to acquire anthropometric measurement. A value of 25-<30 kg/m 2 indicates overweight, while a value of 30 kg/m 2 or greater denotes obesity, as per the WHO guideline. These cutpoints were generated mostly from the White population.
1 Μαρ 2023 · Pearson correlation coefficients between body mass index and DXA derived body adiposity (fat mass index and percentage body fat) by sex and age for each race-ethnicity.
29 Ιουλ 2020 · Introduction. Obesity is widely recognised as a pandemic public health problem. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2016 more than 650 million adults worldwide were obese 1. These...
11 Δεκ 2015 · Body mass index (BMI) is now the most widely used measure of adiposity on a global scale. Nevertheless, intense discussion centers on the appropriateness of BMI as a phenotypic marker of adiposity across populations differing in race and ethnicity.
