Sentences with phrase «as body mass»

Batteries of biomarkers that measure allostatic load (also termed allostatic overload to highlight pathophysiology of the extreme)(38) tap into the major mediators of allostasis along with some key secondary outcomes, such as body mass index or waist — hip ratio and glycosylated hemoglobin (39), and provide a broad - based assessment of the dysregulation of these adaptive systems that has turned out to have predictive value in a variety of epidemiologic studies (40).

Adiposity was operationalized at the age 19 home visits as body mass index (BMI).

It uses the same criteria such as body mass, citizenship driving record and the medical and pharmacy reports but eliminates the examination.

I had the thought because your life insurance rate is partially based the ratio of your height and weight, commonly known as body mass index.

Certainly, you must remember that some things, such, as body mass, carry subjective character and that someone can check on the profile, they have surplus weight, when they such are not.

TUESDAY, June 5, 2012 (Health.com)-- Having a large waist is an important early warning sign for diabetes, one that in some cases may be just as significant as body mass index (BMI), if not more so, a new study has found.

The study is among the first of its kind to examine the outcomes associated with combinations of behaviors in midlife, rather than specific health measures (such as body mass index) that reflect those behaviors, says S. Jay Olshansky, Ph.D., a professor of public health at the Center on Aging at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

The researchers examined how yoga affected risk factors such as body mass index (BMI), systolic blood pressure, low - density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL), and high - density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL).

The BMI is defined as the body mass divided by the square of the body height and is universally expressed in units of kg / m2, resulting from mass in kilograms and height in meters.

This can be confusing, as body mass index is not very accurate!

Even as rates of obesity (defined as a body mass index, or BMI, of at least 30 kg / m2) have started to plateau, severe obesity is still quite common, Dr. Arterburn said.

This latest research shows that the risk of heart and blood vessel problems, such as heart attacks, strokes and high blood pressure, increases as body mass index (BMI) increases beyond a BMI of 22 - 23 kg / m2.

Body weight — measured as body mass index, or BMI — is highly heritable in both boys and girls.

These data demonstrate that variations in continuous quantitative traits such as body mass, adipocyte size, and BMI are correlated with quantitative variations in the expression of genes.

These factors were a low albumin level (less than 3 grams per deciliter, or g / dL), weight loss greater than 10 percent of body weight six months before the operation, and obesity, defined as a body mass index (BMI) of 30 kilograms per square meter or higher.

In 2014, more than 640 million men and women were obese (measured as a body mass index of 30 or higher).

Based on data gathered when participants entered each study, the investigators used four AHA - defined lifestyle factors — no current smoking; lack of obesity, defined as a body mass index less than 30; physical exercise at least once a week, and a healthy dietary pattern — to determine a lifestyle score, whether participants had a favorable (three or four healthy factors), intermediate (two factors) or unfavorable (one or no healthy factors) lifestyle.

Researchers determined this «biological age» based on health indicators such as body mass index, blood pressure and cholesterol level.

They compared a person's BDNF gene combination — CC, CT or TT — to factors that define obesity, such as body mass index (BMI) and percentage of body fat.

The findings — featured in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)-- are a concern as body mass and weight gain during pregnancy are important indicators of maternal health.

Obesity was defined as a body mass index at or above 30, calculated from self - reported height and weight measures collected in the survey.

«As body mass increased, and side toes shrunk, the middle digit compensated by changing its internal geometry, allowing ever - bigger horse species to eventually stand and move on one toe,» Pierce said.

«As body mass index increases, so does spread of multiple myeloma.»

Apart from the uncertainty of relying largely on self - reported measurements, she points out, the authors double - dip their data by testing height and weight separately and then again as body mass index, or BMI, which combines height and weight.

Instead, the researchers used the volunteers» self - reported height and weight (combined as body mass index, or BMI), plus measurements of the women's waist - to - hip ratios, as a measure of attractiveness.

People with morbid obesity (defined as a body mass index above 40) have a metabolic disease too complicated to treat with just drugs, diet or exercise; and most will regain weight lost through those methods, he says.

Not exact matches

As a result, their body mass index, or BMI, tends to be lower, causing them to fall under the radar.

The per capita cost of obesity and its related risk to diabetes was as high as $ 17,000 for people whose BMI (body mass index) was over 40 (morbid obesity) compared to those employees of normal weight.

Although the product has been tested with Olympians, Babini sees the technology having applications beyond professional sports — helping improve health for the masses, as well as fostering a deeper understanding of how the body works.

Most (59 %) of these firms offer financial incentives for undergoing the screenings, and some (14 %) tie the incentives to meeting specific outcomes such as a targeted body mass index (BMI) or cholesterol level.

Body camera footage from officers who entered Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock's hotel suite during October's mass shooting will be released Wednesday, as part of a rolling release of material, police say.

At that mass, we will commemorate Mary's assumption into heaven in body, and spirit, as an act of grace bestowed on her by God.

However, the Rosina mass spectrometer aboard Rosetta found that the ratio of deuterium to hydrogen in the comet is far greater than that found on Earth, adding to the growing body of evidence that the water on Earth was delivered not by comets, as previously thought, but by asteroids.

In general it may be said that just as the early Hebrews had never in their thinking broken up the social mass so as clearly to visualize the individual, they never had broken up the individual so as to distinguish between what we should call «soul» and «body.»

For although certain principles of wear and dissolution, which apparently can not be prevented from growing more pronounced with age, seem to be inherent in the structure of our individual bodies, there is no indication of any similar factor in the global evolution of a living mass as large as the Noosphere, where the overriding evolutionary law seems to be that, of statistical necessity, it must simply converge upon itself.

The mass and majesty of this world, all That carries weight and always weighs the same, Lay in the hands of others; they were small And could not hope for help, and no help came; What their foes liked to do was done; their shame Was all the worst could wish: they lost their pride And died as men before their bodies died.

Further, in the consumerist market, while the bodies of the women are converted as commodities, they are also co-opted into the mechanism as the single largest consumers in commodity mass production.

As per Professor Crossan's analyses in his many books, the body of Jesus would have ended up in the mass graves of the crucified, eaten by wild dogs, covered with lime in a shallow grave, or under a pile of stones.

Moving into a fully process - theoretic context, we use one of the Categoreal Obligations to deduce the very idea of mass and then speculate on why the body has mass, but the soul does not, without a simple, pluralistic dismissal of the idea as a mere category error.

It is only slight exaggeration to state that he feels the traditional Western religious and philosophical understanding of God to be such a mass of errors and inconsistencies as to require removal in toto from the body of metaphysical thought.

We recall that Newton's law for gravitational attraction between two bodies is given by: force = (Gm1m2) / r2, where m1 and m2 are the masses of two bodies, r the distance separating them, and G the gravitational constant which acts as a factor of proportionality.

Meanwhile, atheist believe that our body, a mass of flesh and bones get tired on day, they died, the body in total afterwards is dust, and as dust that body or what is left from it after dying, continues to be part of the things we know as universe or cosmos, and this is all, there is nothing else, is over, finito, final, bye.

For by these facts the great conviction is forced upon us that just as we men and women have personality within that mass of chemical and physical activity which we call our bodies, so in the infinite universe of activity is there immanent an infinite Person whose existence and character account for its relationships, its tendencies and its achievements.

I must give myself away as a pawn through which the whole world is redeemed... and with this my own body I must experience, for the sake of all beings, the whole mass of all painful feelings17

There has been a persistent body of people who question the use of mass media in religious communication as an inherent contradiction in terms.

A Ugandan Catholic priest has been identified as one of the bodies found in a mass grave in Mexico last month.

Like an alien body, like an activating ferment injected into the mass, it gives the world no peace, it bars slumber, it teaches the world to be discontented and restless as long as the world has not God, it stimulates the movement of history.

The lower levels of baseline sugar sweetened drink consumption in the UK compared with the US may in part explain why the effect on obesity that we estimate in the UK is much less than that estimated in the US.12 The differences with respect to other modelling studies may also be partly explained by their use of higher own price elasticity values for sugar sweetened drinks than we have calculated and used here.18 22 52 We can not make direct comparisons between the results of our study and the results of recent studies of the effect of reducing sugar sweetened drink consumption on body weight in children, 5 7 as the relation between energy balance and change in body mass index in children who are growing is different from that in adults.

Some certification bodies such as Fair For Life do not accept mass balance.

It may be able to strengthen the nervous system and kidneys as well as reduce masses in the body (such as tumors).