A crude measure of body fat.
Mass (kg) / (height(m) squared)
Explanation of Result :
| Category |
BMI range |
| Severely underweight |
< 16.0 |
| Underweight |
16.0-18.5 |
| Normal |
18.5-25 |
| Overweight |
25-30 |
| Obese Class I |
30-35 |
| Obese Class II |
35-40 |
| Obese Class III |
>40 |
* Please verify all calculations prior to clinical use.
References
- Keen H, Thomas BJ, Jarrett RJ, Fuller JH. Nutrient intake, adiposity, and diabetes. Br Med J. 1979 Mar 10;1(6164):655-8. PMID: 435710.
To study the role of nutritional factors in the genesis of diabetes, estimations of blood sugar concentration, food intake, and adiposity (as body mass index; BMI) were carried out on three normal population samples–namely, 961 employees of Beecham Ltd, 1005 employees of the Greater London Council, and 1488 middle-aged male civil servants (Whitehall study). Blood sugar concentrations and indices of glucose tolerance correlated positively with the degree of adiposity but tended to be negatively correlated with total food energy intake and its component nutrients (total carbohydrate, sucrose, and fat). This inverse trend was largely accounted for by highly significant inverse correlations between food energy intake and adiposity, a relation […]