Sentence examples for misperception of body from inspiring English sources

We investigated 19 stroke patients with thalamic or with extra-thalamic lesions showing versus not showing misperception of body orientation.

Thus, it is possible that the thalamic lesions of pusher patients indeed cause functional or metabolic abnormalities in cortical areas via diaschisis [19], [21] or through vascular dysfunction, and that these (distant) functional abnormalities cause the patients' misperception of body orientation.

Table  4 shows the results of misperception of body shape by overestimation vs. underestimation.

Gender, SES, and BMI-based weight status affected misperception of body shape across all groups.

Multivariate logistic regression analysis was used to identify factors affecting misperception of body shape.

The lower the SES, the higher is the misperception of body shape in adolescents.

Differences in the misperception rate of body shape were calculated on the basis of general characteristics, and the chi-square test was used to analyze resulting frequency data.

Misperception of the ideal body shape threatens the physical and mental health of adolescents during growth.

On multivariable analyses, after adjustment for maternal sociodemographics, pre-pregnancy BMI, gestation length, parity and smoking habits, misperception of pre-pregnancy body weight status was associated with an increased odds of excessive gestational weight gain (normal weight overassessors, OR: 2.0, 95% CI: 1.3, 3.0; overweight/obese underassessors, OR: 7.6, 95% CI: 3.4, 17.0; Table 2).

Specifically, we addressed (1) the present condition of misperception by comparing perception of body shape and weight status, and (2) sociodemographic characteristics affecting discordance between perception of body shape and weight status (overestimation and underestimation).

According to a recent study, body size misperception was a strong predictor of body dissatisfaction regardless of actual weight status [ 4].