Body Mass Index

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• <img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Pre-Pregnancy BMI Important Indicator of Offspring Obesity - Doctors Lounge
• <img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Gender, BMI Impact Bladder Perforation During Resection - Doctors Lounge
• <img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Weight-Loss Surgery Beat Drugs for Cutting Diabetes in Very Obese - U.S. News & World Report
• <img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Southeast Texans offer tips on how to drop those pounds - Beaumont Enterprise
• <img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Where in the world are the heftiest people? - MinnPost.com
• <img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Healthy weight before menopause eases transition - The Province
• <img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>We may be fatter than we think, researchers report
• <img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>Reliance on BMI understates the true obesity crisis, experts say

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Pre-Pregnancy BMI Important Indicator of Offspring Obesity - Doctors Lounge Posted: 16 Apr 2012 05:14 PM PDT Pre-Pregnancy BMI Important Indicator of Offspring Obesity Doctors Lounge Maternal gestational weight gain during the first 20 weeks of pregnancy correlates with body mass index (BMI)-based overweight/obesity and abdominal obesity at age 16, but maternal pre-pregnancy BMI is a stronger indicator of offspring obesity, ...

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Gender, BMI Impact Bladder Perforation During Resection - Doctors Lounge Posted: 16 Apr 2012 05:14 PM PDT Gender, BMI Impact Bladder Perforation During Resection Doctors Lounge For patients with bladder tumors, female gender, low body mass index, and tumor characteristics correlate with the risk of bladder perforation during transurethral resection, according to research published in the May issue of The Journal of Urology.

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Weight-Loss Surgery Beat Drugs for Cutting Diabetes in Very Obese - U.S. News & World Report Posted: 16 Apr 2012 01:02 PM PDT CultureMap Austin Weight-Loss Surgery Beat Drugs for Cutting Diabetes in Very Obese U.S. News & World Report The researchers assigned 30 patients to the surgery group and another 30 to the medicine group. All had a body-mass index (BMI) of 35 or higher. With BMI, which takes both height and weight into account, 30 is the beginning of the obese category. Sleeve Gastrectomy Proves Effective in Diabetes Remission Medscape Study compares sleeve gastrectomy with medical treatment in obese patients ... EurekAlert (press release) For some people with diabetes, could weight loss surgery really be the best ... CultureMap Austin Archives of Surgery  - MedPage Today  - The State Journal-Register all 17 news articles »

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Southeast Texans offer tips on how to drop those pounds - Beaumont Enterprise Posted: 16 Apr 2012 11:00 AM PDT Southeast Texans offer tips on how to drop those pounds Beaumont Enterprise For those with a body mass index, a proportion of height and weight, greater than 35, bariatric surgery is an option. Some diabetic patients with a BMI of slightly less than 35 can be candidates as well. Schrapps said virtually all insurance companies ... and more »

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Where in the world are the heftiest people? - MinnPost.com Posted: 16 Apr 2012 08:17 AM PDT MinnPost.com Where in the world are the heftiest people? MinnPost.com And the weight of the world is, um, expanding every day. As Guardian reporters Horatia Harrod and Fred Mitting point out, about 1.6 billion people around the world are now either overweight (defined as a body mass index, or BMI, of 25 to 29) or obese ... Weight of the world — 1.6 billion of Earth's population overweight - Today's ... San Francisco Luxury News It's a large world after all Ottawa Citizen Calorie Cutting Needed to Meet Youth Obesity Goals MD News (press release) Politics.co.uk all 12 news articles »

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Healthy weight before menopause eases transition - The Province Posted: 16 Apr 2012 02:21 AM PDT Healthy weight before menopause eases transition The Province The study, which followed 102 healthy pre-menopausal women in Ottawa for five years, found that the women who started out with a healthy BMI will go through menopause with-out increased risk of cardiovascular disease or Type 2 diabetes. and more »

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>We may be fatter than we think, researchers report Posted: 02 Apr 2012 09:52 PM PDT A new study finds that the widely used body mass index, or BMI, may be understating obesity in many people. As if the nation's weight problems were not daunting enough, a new study has found that the body mass index, the 180-year-old formula used to distinguish between healthy and unhealthy weight, may be incorrectly classifying about half of women and just over 20% of men as being the picture ...

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Yahoo.jpg"/>Reliance on BMI understates the true obesity crisis, experts say Posted: 02 Apr 2012 05:23 PM PDT As if the nation's weight problems were not daunting enough, a new study has found that the body-mass index, the 200-year-old formula used to distinguish between healthy and unhealthy weight, may be misclassifying roughly half of women and just over 20% of men as healthy when their body-fat composition suggests they are obese.

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