News tagged with body mass index
Obesity has doubled since 1980, major global analysis of risk factors reveals
The worldwide prevalence of obesity has nearly doubled since 1980, according to a major study on how three important heart disease risk factors have changed across the world over the last three decades. The study, published ...
Feb 04, 2011 |
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Coffee drinking linked to reduced stroke risk in women
Drinking more than a cup of coffee a day was associated with a 22 percent to 25 percent lower risk of stroke, compared with those who drank less, in a study reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Mar 10, 2011 |
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Stretching before a run does not prevent injury
Stretching before a run neither prevents nor causes injury, according to a study presented today at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS).
Feb 18, 2011 |
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Features of the metabolic syndrome common in persons with psoriasis
Individuals with psoriasis have a high prevalence of the metabolic syndrome, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the April 2011 print issue of Archives of Dermatology.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dec 20, 2010 |
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Americans think their diet healthy, poll shows it's not
Nine in 10 Americans say their diet is healthy but only a quarter limit the amount of fat or sugar they eat, and two-thirds don't eat enough fruit and vegetables, a poll published Tuesday found.
Jan 04, 2011 |
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Shunning the sun may be harmful to your health
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. - Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the United States, with more than a million new cases diagnosed each year. But efforts to prevent it might be creating a health crisis of another sort.
Dec 21, 2010 |
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Common bone drugs may reduce colon cancer risk
An international team of researchers has found that the use of bisphosphonates - drugs already taken by millions of healthy women to prevent bone-loss - for more than one year was associated with a 50 percent reduction in ...
Feb 16, 2011 |
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Not so sweet: Increased added sugars intake parallels trends in weight gain
Weight gain in adults coincided with increased consumption of added sugars, in a study reported today at the American Heart Association's Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism/Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and ...
Mar 24, 2011 |
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Obesity is heart disease killer in its own right, irrespective of other risk factors
Obesity is a killer in its own right, irrespective of other biological or social risk factors traditionally associated with coronary heart disease, suggests research published online in Heart.
Feb 14, 2011 |
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Trial will test whether surgery is the best option for type 2 diabetes
A new clinical trial at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center is among the first to test surgery specifically for Type 2 diabetes. The aim of the study is to understand whether surgery can control diabetes, ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 10, 2011 |
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Obese women may be less likely to develop glaucoma
Obesity may be associated with higher eye pressure and a decreased risk of open-angle glaucoma in women but not men, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the May issue of Archives of Ophthalmology.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 14, 2011 |
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1 person of 1,900 met AHA's definition of ideal heart health, study says
Only one out of more than 1,900 people evaluated met the American Heart Association (AHA) definition of ideal cardiovascular health, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. ...
Feb 18, 2011 |
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Overweight adults may have the lowest mortality: Do they have the best health?
While overweight adults die at lower rates than other weight categories, a new study shows that higher body weight was consistently associated with worse health risk profiles.
Medicine & Health / Overweight and Obesity
Mar 08, 2011 |
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The relationship between body mass index and age at hepatocellular carcinoma onset
A research team from Japan identified factors associated with the age at onset of hepatitis C virus (HCV)-related hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The results showed that increased body mass index (BMI) is associated with ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 15, 2011 |
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Obesity linked to income, education; not sprawl
(PhysOrg.com) -- Obesity is more prevalent in areas with lower educational attainment and certain ethnic profiles than in areas of suburban sprawl, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Feb 07, 2011 |
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Body mass index
The body mass index (BMI), or Quetelet index, is a controversial statistical measurement which compares a person's weight and height. Though it does not actually measure the percentage of body fat, it may be a useful tool to estimate a healthy body weight based on how tall a person is. Due to its ease of measurement and calculation, it is the most widely used diagnostic tool to identify weight problem within a population including: underweight, overweight and obesity. It was invented 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 weight divided by the square of his or her 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 (horizontal axis) and height (vertical axis) using contour lines for different values of BMI or colours for different BMI categories.
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