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NORMOPONDERAL [1 record]

Record 1 2023-03-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hygiene and Health
  • Dietetics
CONT

Secondary analyses were also performed by grouping patients into the 4 BMI [body mass index] categories endorsed by the National Institutes of Health: underweight ([less than]18.5 kg/m²), healthy weight (18.5-24.9 kg/m²), overweight (25.0-29.9 kg/m²), and obese ([greater than or equal to] 30.0 kg/m²). ... By weight category, patients who were overweight and obese had mortality risks that were 26.1% and 47.8%, respectively, lower as compared with the mortality risk of healthy-weight patients with HF [heart failure], whereas patients who were underweight had a 37.0% increase in risk. ... Overweight and obese BMI subgroups in this trial were at significantly decreased risk for all-cause mortality (0.88 and 0.81, respectively) as compared with healthy-weight individuals.

OBS

This term is hyphenated when it precedes a noun or follows a copular verb (e.g. to be, to seem, etc.).

PHR

Normal-weight individual, man, patient, subject, woman.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hygiène et santé
  • Diététique
CONT

Le risque de cancer de l’endomètre est multiplié par un facteur de deux à trois chez les femmes très obèses (IMCde masse corporelle supérieur ou égal à 35 kg/m²) par rapport aux femmes de poids normal (IMC compris entre 18,5 et 24,9 kg/m²).

PHR

Femme, homme, patient, personne, sujet de poids normal.

Spanish

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