Sentences with phrase «obese category because»

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Because there were few women in the obese class II and III category, which covered a wide range of prepregnancy BMI values (ie, 35.0 — 55.4), the lack of a detectable effect of breastfeeding in the heaviest women may result from inadequate statistical power rather than from a biological difference.

If you talk to most life insurance applicants who fall into the obese or morbidly obese categories according the their BMI, they have usually been told that they aren't insurable or that the prices are so high as to render uninsurable because they can't afford it.

Also, because parents reported their own height and weight, some overweight and obese parents may have been misclassified into a lower BMI category, but it seems unlikely that this would have greatly altered results.