Obesity and body weight standards
1986
Simopoulos, A.P.
A review highlights various standards (weight/height ratios (e.g., body mass index), skinfold thickness, frame size) used for measures of body fat and obesity, and discusses data derived from the national HES and HANES surveys, clinical studies, the Metropolitan Life weight-for-height tables, and recommendations of a 1982 NIH-CDC workshop for body weight standards that reflect morbidity and mortality. It is concluded that until further studies define the range of body weight for least morbidity and longest survival, the recommended weight ranges provided by the 1959 Metropolitan Life table appears to be an appropriate reference standard.(wz)
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