 Body Mass Index
"Body Mass Index" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An indicator of body density as determined by the relationship of BODY WEIGHT to BODY HEIGHT. BMI=weight (kg)/height squared (m2). BMI correlates with body fat (ADIPOSE TISSUE). Their relationship varies with age and gender. For adults, BMI falls into these categories: below 18.5 (underweight); 18.5-24.9 (normal); 25.0-29.9 (overweight); 30.0 and above (obese). (National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
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D015992
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E01.370.600.115.100.125 E05.041.124.125 G07.100.100.125 N06.850.505.200.100.175
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| Concept/Terms |
Body Mass Index- Body Mass Index
- Index, Body Mass
- Quetelet Index
- Index, Quetelet
- Quetelet's Index
- Quetelets Index
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| 1989 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1991 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 1992 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1993 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 1994 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1995 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 1996 | 0 | 5 | 5 | | 1997 | 0 | 4 | 4 | | 1998 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 1999 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2000 | 3 | 9 | 12 | | 2001 | 1 | 7 | 8 | | 2002 | 0 | 15 | 15 | | 2003 | 2 | 10 | 12 | | 2004 | 1 | 6 | 7 | | 2005 | 2 | 18 | 20 | | 2006 | 5 | 19 | 24 | | 2007 | 3 | 15 | 18 | | 2008 | 4 | 21 | 25 | | 2009 | 5 | 25 | 30 | | 2010 | 6 | 16 | 22 | | 2011 | 2 | 32 | 34 | | 2012 | 7 | 25 | 32 | | 2013 | 8 | 35 | 43 | | 2014 | 7 | 32 | 39 | | 2015 | 7 | 28 | 35 | | 2016 | 3 | 23 | 26 | | 2017 | 5 | 21 | 26 | | 2018 | 4 | 19 | 23 | | 2019 | 2 | 8 | 10 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Body Mass Index" by people in Profiles.
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Kar SP, Brenner H, Giles GG, Huo D, Milne RL, Rennert G, Simard J, Zheng W, Burgess S, Pharoah PDP. Body mass index and the association between low-density lipoprotein cholesterol as predicted by HMGCR genetic variants and breast cancer risk. Int J Epidemiol. 2019 10 01; 48(5):1727-1730.
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Balaji S, DiLorenzo MP, Fish FA, Etheridge SP, Aziz PF, Russell MW, Tisma S, Pflaumer A, Sreeram N, Kubus P, Law IH, Kantoch MJ, Kertesz NJ, Strieper M, Erickson CC, Moore JP, Nakano SJ, Singh HR, Chang P, Cohen M, Fournier A, Ilina MV, Smith RT, Zimmerman F, Horndasch M, Li W, Batra A, Liberman L, Hamilton R, Janson CM, Sanatani S, Zeltser I, McDaniel G, Blaufox AD, Garnreiter JM, Katcoff H, Shah M. Impact of Obesity on Left Ventricular Thickness in Children with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. Pediatr Cardiol. 2019 Aug; 40(6):1253-1257.
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Effect of Intraoperative High Positive End-Expiratory Pressure (PEEP) With Recruitment Maneuvers vs Low PEEP on Postoperative Pulmonary Complications in Obese Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA. 2019 06 18; 321(23):2292-2305.
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Reyes AC, Chaves R, Baxter-Jones ADG, Vasconcelos O, Barnett LM, Tani G, Hedeker D, Maia J. Modelling the dynamics of children's gross motor coordination. J Sports Sci. 2019 Oct; 37(19):2243-2252.
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Petty LE, Highland HM, Gamazon ER, Hu H, Karhade M, Chen HH, de Vries PS, Grove ML, Aguilar D, Bell GI, Huff CD, Hanis CL, Doddapaneni H, Munzy DM, Gibbs RA, Ma J, Parra EJ, Cruz M, Valladares-Salgado A, Arking DE, Barbeira A, Im HK, Morrison AC, Boerwinkle E, Below JE. Functionally oriented analysis of cardiometabolic traits in a trans-ethnic sample. Hum Mol Genet. 2019 04 01; 28(7):1212-1224.
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Masa JF, Pépin JL, Borel JC, Mokhlesi B, Murphy PB, Sánchez-Quiroga MÁ. Obesity hypoventilation syndrome. Eur Respir Rev. 2019 Mar 31; 28(151).
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Pereira S, Katzmarzyk PT, Gomes TN, Buranarugsa R, Moura-Dos-Santos MA, Hedeker D, Maia J. Sibling Similarity in Metabolic Syndrome: The Portuguese Sibling Study on Growth, Fitness, Lifestyle and Health. Behav Genet. 2019 05; 49(3):299-309.
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Dybala MP, Olehnik SK, Fowler JL, Golab K, Millis JM, Golebiewska J, Bachul P, Witkowski P, Hara M. Pancreatic beta cell/islet mass and body mass index. Islets. 2019; 11(1):1-9.
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Attia E, Steinglass JE, Walsh BT, Wang Y, Wu P, Schreyer C, Wildes J, Yilmaz Z, Guarda AS, Kaplan AS, Marcus MD. Olanzapine Versus Placebo in Adult Outpatients With Anorexia Nervosa: A Randomized Clinical Trial. Am J Psychiatry. 2019 06 01; 176(6):449-456.
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Cripe JC, Buchanan TR, Kuroki LM, Wan L, Mills KA, Massad L, Hagemann AR, Fuh KC, Mutch DG, Powell MA, Matsuo K, Thaker PH. Association between body mass index and surgical menopausal symptoms in patients with early stage endometrial cancer. Gynecol Oncol. 2019 04; 153(1):123-126.
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