Sentence examples for mild overweight from inspiring English sources

This could be due to a lack of real difference, that the sample population was too small and the power of the study thus limited, or that the BCS was too low in the overweight dogs (only mild overweight).

One study used a hand-held computer [ 8] and found it to be as effective as therapist-conducted treatment for the management of mild overweight, as well as more cost-effective.

Right side: The weight of factor levels in the total patient population (n = 827) and in subpopulations of patients with normal body weight (22.6%), mild overweight (40.4%), obesity type I (25.8%) and obesity type II+III (11.2%) is shown.

Effects of long-term, even mild, overweight on prostate cancer risk could be mediated by several biological mechanisms, implicating sex hormones (androgens and oestrogen) (Nomura, 2001), leptin, and insulin-like growth factor (IGF -I (Chan et al, 1998; Calle, 2000; HsIGF -Id Devesa, 2001; Pollak, 2001).

In the diet-alone group, a high prevalence of hypertension (72%) and dyslipidemia (56%), high age (mean age, 65 years), mild overweight (mean BMI, 25 kg/m), and mild glucose intolerance (mean levels of HbA1c and FPG, 6.7% and 7.22 mmol/L) might indicate that these patients could be considered to have multiple cardiovascular risk factors rather than overt diabetes.

In this instance, the op-ed was reacting to a meta-analysis, published this week in JAMA, and itself the subject of extensive media attention, indicating that mortality rates go up as obesity gets severe, but that mild obesity and overweight are actually associated with lower overall mortality than so-called "healthy" weight.

We employed the BMI classifications from the WHO technical report on the use and interpretation of anthropometry [14], [15] to establish similar classifications for FMI by calculating the prevalences at age 25 for each of the WHO BMI classification thresholds (e.g. mild thinness, normal, overweight, obese class 1, etc).

So, it's no surprise that overweight and mild obesity do not increase mortality.

But why would overweight and mild obesity be associated with a lower rate of mortality, as the meta-analysis suggests?

I use the term "diabesity" to describe the continuum of health problems ranging from mild insulin resistance and overweight to obesity and diabetes.

Nonetheless, our results are also consistent with those of recent prospective studies indicating that whilst mid-life obesity is a risk factor for dementia, overweight and mild obesity in later life are not [9], [13], [14].