Body Weight at Different Ages and Heights

Kemsley, W. F. F.

doi:10.1111/j.1469-1809.1951.tb02484.x

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“…Fifty-eight per cent of all the 60 patients to whom we gave Metformin were more then 20% over standard body weight (based on Kemsley's tables) [7], and had not satisfactorily responded to a standard diet of 1000 or 1400 calories alone. By "satisfactory" we mean fasting blood glucose levels below 100 mg/dl, and all 2 hour post-prandial levels below 140 mg/dl.…”

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Metformin in management of pregnant insulin-independent diabetics

1979

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Summary.Sixty pregnant "maturity-onset" (insulinindependent), established and gestational, diabetics were treated with Metformin in the second and third trimester after dietary treatment had failed. The incidence of Metformin failure was 53.8% in the established diabetics and 28.6% in the "gestational" diabetics. The 27 Metformin failures were transferred to other therapy, leaving for further analysis 33 patients who received Metformin up till delivery. Two neonatal deaths occurred in this group (1 congenital abnormality and 1 preterm infant) giving a perinatal mortality of 61/1000. This compares with a perinatal mortality of 103/1000 in the Metformin failure group and 105/1000 in a group of insulindependent diabetics treated during the same period. Apart from a high incidence of neonatal jaundice requiring phototherapy the infant morbidity in the Metformin group was low. The mothers of 3 infants with congenital abnormalities had received Metformin only during the last trimester of their pregnancy.

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Metformin in management of pregnant insulin-independent diabetics

1979

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“…No patient was uraemic and no patient was excluded because of the results of these investigations. Means+SD a Ideal body weight calculated from the data of Kemsley [5] Of the 65 patients treated by diet and oral therapy 22 were taking biguanides (mainly metformin), 21 patients sulphonylureas (mainly chlorpropamide) and 22 patients both sulphonylurea and biguanide therapy.…”

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Blood glycoprotein levels in diabetes mellitus

Jónsson

Wales

1976

Diabetologia

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Summary. Five glycoproteins have been measured in the blood of 145 diabetic patients with and without clinical evidence of complications. Patients with diabetic complications have higher glycoprotein levels particularly when expressed as a ratio to serum albumin levels. In 32 pairs of patients matched for age, sex, body weight, duration and treatment of diabetes, significantly higher haptoglobin, fibrinogen and caeruloplasmin levels were associated with the presence of diabetic complications, but blood glucose levels were not significantly different, fi-lipoprotein levels were positively correlated with age and a2-macroglobulin levels with the duration of clinical disease, but the type of antidiabetic therapy administered did not significantly alter glycoprotein levels. It is suggested that rising levels of certain glycoproteins in the blood of diabetic patients may indicate the development of diabetic vascular complications, but a prospective study is required before it can be decided whether this change predates the clinical appearance of the complications.

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“…As early as 1952, Kemsley compared average weights in the United States, Britain and Japan, showing that at the same height and age, Britons and Japanese tend to be lighter than Americans. 2 More recently, Yanai et al reported that the prevalence of obesity in Japanese young populations needed to be estimated using ethnicspeci®c body mass index (BMI) values, rather than using those drawn from Caucasians, who tend to have a higher BMI in each age group. 3 In Brazil, local 17-y-old boys were found to be up to 10 kg leaner, compared with their peers in the US.…”

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Body mass index in 17-year-old Israeli males of different ethnic backgrounds; national or ethnic-specific references?

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OBJECTIVE: To evaluate whether a single national reference is appropriate for assessing prevalence of overweight in heterogeneous populations, or whether ethnic-speci®c references are needed. DESIGN: A population-based study of Israeli Jewish males who underwent routine physical and clinical examinations prior to army recruitment served as the basis for the development of two types of references for body mass index (BMI): a national reference (NR) and an ethnic-speci®c reference (ER). SUBJECTS: Consecutive cohorts of all 17-y-old Jewish male recruits (n 109, 570). MEASUREMENTS: Weight, height and blood pressure values were obtained. BMI was calculated, and the 85th percentile of BMI was used as a cut-off point for overweight, using both types of references. Prevalence of hypertension among recruits was used as a biomarker to support the reliability of the ER when discrepancy in classi®cation between the two references was found. RESULTS: As compared to the NR, three ethnic groups had a BMI distribution shifted to the left (light subpopulation) and ®ve were shifted to the right (heavy sub-population). In the light sub-population, 7% of the inductees who were classi®ed as having normal weight by the NR were considered overweight by the ER and had a hypertension rate similar to that of those de®ned as overweight by both references (3.1 per 1000). In the heavy sub-population the 4% of subjects who were overweight by NR and normal by ER had hypertension rates similar to those de®ned as normal weight by both references (2.7a1000), and signi®cantly lower than that of those classi®ed as overweight by both references (10.8a1000). CONCLUSION: In heterogeneous populations, ethnic references should be used to evaluate prevalence of overweight, rather than one national reference.

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Body Weight at Different Ages and Heights

Cited by 134 publications

References 12 publications

Metformin in management of pregnant insulin-independent diabetics

Metformin in management of pregnant insulin-independent diabetics

Blood glycoprotein levels in diabetes mellitus

Body mass index in 17-year-old Israeli males of different ethnic backgrounds; national or ethnic-specific references?

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