Sentence examples for degree of overweight from inspiring English sources

As one might expect, the risks increase with the degree of overweight and are highest in women like Liz with B.M.I.'s of 30 and above.

What we actually thought we knew was that the numbers of us categorized as "overweight" or "obese" had stabilized, while the degree of overweight and obesity had not.

Changes to interventions included activities, duration, and target group (age range and/or degree of overweight).

For distant clients, the degree of overweight was higher in youth versus children.

Although the BMI represents the degree of overweight and obesity, it fails to represent the body fat distribution.

Interestingly, the degree of overweight (measured by BMI percentile) correlated with both headache frequency and disability of headache.

However, the question of the role played by the degree of overweight-obesity of the mothers in this offspring predisposition or its effect on offspring insulin sensitivity and secretion was not specifically addressed in previous studies.

Second, we are now well aware that minor degrees of overweight may pose little if any health threat.

Women with BMI ≥35 kg/m were more likely to lack contraception than women with BMI <25 kg/m(1.63 [1.16–2.28]), but associations between contraception use and lesser degrees of overweight and obesity were not significant.

In our study, we further examined the relationship between severity of obesity and contraception and found that contraception use was significantly lower among women with severe (class II or III) obesity compared with women with lesser degrees of overweight and obesity.

However, lack of standardized practices to assess the degree and quality of overweight (central versus peripheral adiposity) limit objective determination of therapeutic need and timely referral to nutrition professionals.