Element Metabolism and Body Composition

Pierson, Richard N.

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-55539-8_12

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“…The scatter also explains the difficulty of finding a “correct” relationship between body height and body mass. The crosses, open circles, and full circles even provide evidence for an age dependence of the human weight in support of Flegal [13] and Shreeve and Pierson [14]. Figure 1 illustrates that a linear fit cannot cover adequately all data points.…”

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confidence: 68%

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Applications of BMI or BSI: Differences and Revisions According to Age and Height

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Feinendegen

Zaum³

et al. 2010

Journal of Obesity

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Validation of body-mass relationships requires a careful statistical analysis of data of normal weight individuals. BMI (ratio between body mass and square of body height) and BSI values (ratio between mass and cube of body height) have been calculated for 99 persons with ages between 1 day and 76 years. These BMI or BSI values have been used for least squares fits yielding mean BMI or BSI values, their variances (providing precision), and average deviations of individual BMI/BSI values from the BMI/BSI means. The latter allows limits to over- and underweight. For adults we found mean values of BSI of 12.36 and confirmed 21.7 for the mean BMI; but the BSI was 1.4 times more precise than the BMI. For children shorter than 1.3 m and younger than 8 years we found the BMI average of 15.9 and over-/underweight limits of 17.4/14.4 being significantly smaller than and incompatible with the recommended BMI values.

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confidence: 68%

“…Flegal [13] importantly noted the difference between younger and older men and women, as was also emphasized by Shreeve and Pierson [14]. In view of the natural changes of normal bodies with growing and ageing (healthy young subjects usually have less body fat than healthy older subjects), it seems appropriate to follow Flegal [13].…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 97%