Overweight or severely overweight?
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- Who's fat now? // Women's Sports & Fitness (10996079);Sep/Oct98, Vol. 1 Issue 11, p32
Editorial. Opposes the first federal obesity guidelines in the United States called body-mass index or BMI. Details on BMI; Ineffectiveness of BMI; Health benefits of being moderately active regardless of one's weight.
- A growing need for better height and weight tables. R.M.D. // Cortlandt Forum;3/25/96, Vol. 9 Issue 3, p108
Discusses the need to improve standard height and weight tables to adjust to changes in the physiology of the human population. Standards for obesity.
- Physical inactivity the major cause of childhood obesity. // Active Living;May2007, Vol. 16 Issue 3, p16
The article discusses a British study which considered that a low level of activity is responsible for rising levels of obesity in children. Researchers found that the lower the level of children's activity the higher their fat mass. Measurement instruments included an Actigraph accelerometer...
- Fad Diets and Obesity--Part I: Measuring Weight In a Clinical Setting. Moyad, Mark A. // Urologic Nursing;Apr2004, Vol. 24 Issue 2, p114
Part I. Presents a review of various measurements of obesity. Overview of the obesity epidemic in the United States; Body mass index; Bioelectrical impedance analysis; Definition of overweight and obesity; Waist-to-hip ratio; Lean body mass; Skinfold thickness; Crude weight.
- WAIST NOT, WANT NOT. Detz, Jeanine // Joe Weider's Muscle & Fitness;Aug2005, Vol. 66 Issue 8, p58
Discusses the findings of a study on obesity in the U.S. Sociodemographic aspects of obesity; Need for individuals to exercise.
- Obese Kids. // Pediatrics for Parents;2004, Vol. 21 Issue 8, p9
The article cites that the average weight of a 15-year-old boy in 1966 was 136 pounds and 150 pounds in 2002.
- overweight. Peters, Michael // BMA A-Z Family Medical Encyclopedia;2004, p578
A definition of the term "overweight" is presented. It refers to those weighing more than the recommended weight of a particular height.
- Effect of obesity on inpatient rehabilitation outcomes following total knee arthroplasty. Vincent, Heather K.; Vincent, Kevin R.; Lee, Laura W.; Alfano, Alan P. // Clinical Rehabilitation;Feb2007, Vol. 21 Issue 2, p182
To examine obesity effects on outcomes following inpatient rehabilitation in patients following primary total knee arthroplasty or revision total knee arthroplasty. Design: Retrospective, comparative study. Setting: Fifty-bed, university-affiliated rehabilitation hospital. Patients: Obese...
- Comparison of Oscillometric and Intraarterial Systolic and Diastolic Blood Pressures in Lean, Overweight, and Obese Patients. Umana, Ernesto; Ahmed, Waqas; Fraley, Matthew A.; Alpert, Martin A. // Angiology;Jan/Feb2006, Vol. 57 Issue 1, p41
To assess the effect of obesity on blood pressure measurement the authors obtained simultaneous oscillometric and intraarterial systolic and diastolic blood pressures on 188 lean, overweight, class I/II obese, and class III obese subjects. Oscillometric arm cuff/bladder size was selected in...
