Body Mass Index

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• <img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Extra Weight Increases Risk of Psoriatic Arthritis - Arthritis Today
• <img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>'Alarming' low testosterone levels found in obese teenage boys - CNN (blog)
• <img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Can Thinner Mean Sicker? Obesity Paradox - MedPage Today
• <img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Obesity Raises Atrial Fibrillation Risk in Healthy Women - Clinical Endocrinology News Digital Network
• <img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>How fat is distributed in body affects risk for pregnant mothers, unborn babies - Medical Xpress
• <img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Vivus' weight-loss drug Qsymia expected to gain reimbursement from more payers - Financial Times

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Extra Weight Increases Risk of Psoriatic Arthritis - Arthritis Today Posted: 12 Oct 2012 01:21 PM PDT Extra Weight Increases Risk of Psoriatic Arthritis Arthritis Today It's been known that being overweight or obese increases a person's chances of developing psoriasis. But in the new study, published recently in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, researchers report a link between body mass index, or BMI, and ... and more »

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>'Alarming' low testosterone levels found in obese teenage boys - CNN (blog) Posted: 12 Oct 2012 12:04 PM PDT 'Alarming' low testosterone levels found in obese teenage boys CNN (blog) They also have alarmingly low levels of testosterone - between 40 to 50% less than males of the same age with a normal body mass index. The study, published this week in the journal Clinical Endocrinology, investigated the effect of obesity on ... and more »

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Can Thinner Mean Sicker? Obesity Paradox - MedPage Today Posted: 12 Oct 2012 09:01 AM PDT MedPage Today Can Thinner Mean Sicker? Obesity Paradox MedPage Today The obesity paradox in coronary disease has been explained as arising from flaws in the body mass index metric, but researchers have now shown similar paradoxical findings using body fat and lean mass measurements. Note that high body fat and high ...

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Obesity Raises Atrial Fibrillation Risk in Healthy Women - Clinical Endocrinology News Digital Network Posted: 12 Oct 2012 07:59 AM PDT Obesity Raises Atrial Fibrillation Risk in Healthy Women Clinical Endocrinology News Digital Network Researchers broke down the cohort to five groups: underweight (body mass index below 18.5 kg/m2); normal weight (BMI of 18.5-25); overweight (BMI: 25-30); obese (BMI: 30-35); and extremely obese (BMI greater than 35). During this period, researchers ... and more »

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>How fat is distributed in body affects risk for pregnant mothers, unborn babies - Medical Xpress Posted: 12 Oct 2012 04:42 AM PDT How fat is distributed in body affects risk for pregnant mothers, unborn babies Medical Xpress "We found that these simple, safe and inexpensive measurements gave us a much better predictor of obesity-related pregnancy outcomes than routinely used measures such as the Body Mass Index (BMI). The BMI is calculated by simply using a woman's ...

<img border="0" src="http://shivnath.c.googlepages.com/Google.JPG"/>Vivus' weight-loss drug Qsymia expected to gain reimbursement from more payers - Financial Times Posted: 10 Oct 2012 08:28 AM PDT Vivus' weight-loss drug Qsymia expected to gain reimbursement from more payers Financial Times The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) define obesity based on body mass index (BMI), a measure determined by weight and height. In adults, a BMI between 25 and 29.9 is considered overweight, while a BMI of 30 is defined as obese.

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