BMI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does BMI mean? 

• BMI (noun)
  The noun BMI has 1 sense:

1. a measure of someone's weight in relation to height; to calculate one's BMI, multiply one's weight in pounds and divide that by the square of one's height in inches; overweight is a BMI greater than 25; obese is a BMI greater than 30

  Familiarity information: BMI used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BMI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A measure of someone's weight in relation to height; to calculate one's BMI, multiply one's weight in pounds and divide that by the square of one's height in inches; overweight is a BMI greater than 25; obese is a BMI greater than 30

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

BMI; body mass index

Hypernyms ("BMI" is a kind of...):

index; index number; indicant; indicator (a number or ratio (a value on a scale of measurement) derived from a series of observed facts; can reveal relative changes as a function of time)

 Context examples 

The scientists controlled for factors such as age, sex, smoking status, alcohol use, diet, education, race/ethnicity, and body mass index (BMI).

(Physical activity associated with lower risk of many cancers, NIH)

The link is unlikely to be related by obesity, for example, as this study has found no evidence for a causal link between body mass index (BMI) and depression.

(Inflammation links heart disease and depression, University of Cambridge)

A research group led by a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientist found that a specific gene—APOA2—can result in a higher body mass index (BMI).

(International Research Team Finds Correlation Between Genetics and Obesity Is Modified by Diet, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

In a woman with an obese pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI), i.e. greater than 30, the weight gained during pregnancy exceeds a total weight gain of 20 lbs.

(Excessive Weight Gain in Pregnancy, NCI Thesaurus)

In these individuals, lower BMI was associated with greater CRP and ESR.

(Obesity May Influence Rheumatoid Arthritis Blood Tests, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In a woman with a normal weight pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI), i.e. 18.5-24.9, the weight gained during pregnancy does not exceed a total weight gain of 25 lbs.

(Low Weight Gain in Pregnancy, NCI Thesaurus)

Patients of normal weight fared as poorly as those who were extremely obese, with a BMI of 40 or greater.

(Mildly Obese Fare Better after Major Heart Attack, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The thinner cortex could be a factor in the decreased executive function earlier studies observed among children with higher BMI.

(Obesity Can Affect Kids’ Working Memory, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This allele, which encodes polycomb complex protein BMI-1, plays a role in transcriptional silencing.

(BMI1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

BMI is sometimes used to measure total body fat and whether a person is a healthy weight.

(BMI, NCI Dictionary)