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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 12 February 2025. Relative weight based on mass and height Medical diagnostic method Body mass index (BMI) Chart showing body mass index (BMI) for a range of heights and weights in both metric and imperial. Colours indicate BMI categories defined by the World Health Organization ; underweight, normal ...
For children aged 5–19, the WHO defines obesity as a BMI two standard deviations above the median for their age (a BMI around 18 for a five-year old; around 30 for a 19-year old). [ 26 ] [ 28 ] For children under five, the WHO defines obesity as a weight three standard deviations above the median for their height.
In 2008, the first prevalence of US adults above 20 years was published, based on the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys from 1999 to 2004, finding that 24% of normal-weight adults were metabolically abnormal; on the other hand 49% of overweight adults and 68% of obese adults were metabolically abnormal.
The corpulence index yields valid results even for very short and very tall persons, [7] which is a problem with BMI — for example, an ideal body weight for a person 152.4 cm tall (48 kg) will render BMI of 20.7 and CI of 13.6, while for a person 200 cm tall (99 kg), the BMI will be 24.8, very close to the "overweight" threshold of 25, while ...
Peak BMI kg/m 2 Notes Lifespan (age at death) kg lb st Jon Brower Minnoch United States: M 635 kg 1,400 lb 100 st 0 lb 1.85 m 6 ft 1 in 186 Largest ever documented weight loss, of 419 kg (924 lb; 66 st), [1] until Khalid bin Mohsen Shaari surpassed the record in 2017. 1941–1983 (41) Khalid bin Mohsen Shaari [2] Saudi Arabia: M 620 kg 1,370 lb
A commission proposed a new definition of obesity focused on how excess fat affects ... which have consistently shown higher BMI is associated with a number of chronic diseases including type 2 ...
A small number of words in Mexican Spanish retain the historical /ʃ/ pronunciation, e.g. mexica. There are two possible pronunciations of /ɡs/ in standard speech: the first one is [ks], with a voiceless plosive, but it is commonly realized as [ɣs] instead (hence the phonemic transcription /ɡs/). Voicing is not contrastive in the syllable ...
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