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Bibliography of body mass index BMI references
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Bibliography of Body Mass Index BMI body fat references.
This is not a boring bibliography! (OK, it might be slightly
dull). Beside each article listed about Body Mass Index (BMI), there are my
personal comments, which are sometimes critical. There are graphics
and charts to illustrate my point of view. Become an expert - read
and see why experts disagree sometimes.
Students of body mass index
will find many of the world's important scientific publications about body
composition listed here.
Medical Journal Article:
My Comments:
1.
Bulik CM,Wade TD, Heath AC, Martin NG, Stunkard AJ, Eaves LJ.
Relating body mass index to figural stimuli: population-based normative
data for Caucasians. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord, Oct 2001;25(10):1517-24
Fantastic. Body pictures that judge overweight and
underweight.
2.
Tovee MJ, Reinhardt S, Emery JL, Cornelissen PL. Optimum
body-mass index and maximum ual attractiveness. Lancet, Aug 1998;352(9127):548
Se-xual Attractivness determined by BMI, for young
women.
3.
Kuczmarski RJ, Carroll MD, Flegal KM, Troiano RP. Varying
body mass index cutoff points to describe overweight prevalence among
U.S. s: NHANES III ( 1988 to 1994). Obes Res, Nov 1997;5(6):542-8
The new official definition of Overweight.
4.
Prentice AM, Jebb SA. Beyond body mass index.
Obes Rev 2001 Aug;2(3):141-7
Limitations and problems using BMI.
5.
Kuczmarski RJ, Flegal KM. Criteria for definition
of overweight in transition: background and recommendations for the United
States. Am J Clin Nutr. 2000 Nov;72(5):1067-8.
The History of Body Mass Index criteria in America, 1985 to present.
6.
Poskitt, EM. Body mass index and child obesity:
are we nearing a definition? Acta Paediatr, May 2000;89(5):507- 509
WHO criteria for "s" are really for Age 18
year olds.
7.
Cole TJ, Bellizzi MC, Flegal KM, Dietz WH.
Establishing a standard definition for child overweight and obesity worldwide:
international survey. BMJ 2000 May 6;320(7244):1240-3
An International overweight definition that differs from the WHO.
Age 18 again!
8.
Maynard LM, Wisemandle W, Roche AF, et al. Childhood
body composition in relation to body mass index. Pediatrics, Feb 2001;107(2):344-50
Another article confirming that standards are based on age
18.
9.
Must A, Dallal GE, Dietz WH. Reference data for
obesity: 85th and 95th percentiles of body mass index (wt/ht2) and triceps
skinfold thickness. Am J Clin Nutr, Apr 1991;53(4):839-46
The new CDC overweight criteria - reverting to 1974?
10.
Flegal KM, Troiano RP. Changes in the distribution
of body mass index of s and children in the US population. Int
J Obes Relat Metab Disord, Jul 2000;24(7):807-18
Americans are fatter now, compared to 20 years ago.
11.
Wellens RI, Roche AF, Khamis HJ, et al. Relationships
between the Body Mass Index and body composition. Obes Res, Jan 1996;4(1):35-44
Good BMI overweight criteria for 31 year olds.
12.
Deurenberg P, Weststrate JA, Seidell JC. Body mass
index as a measure of body fatness: age- and -specific prediction formulas.
Br J Nutr, Mar 1991;65(2):105-14
A Body Fat % formula.
13.
Price RA, Sorensen TI, Stunkard AJ. Component distributions
of body mass index defining moderate and extreme overweight in Danish
women and men. Am J Epidemiol, Jul 1989;130(1):193-201
Alternate BMI thresholds for overweight.
14.
Frankenfield DC, Rowe WA, Cooney RN, Smith JS, Becker D. Limits
of body mass index to detect obesity and predict body composition.
Nutrition, 2001 Jan;17(1):26-30
Body fat percentage versus BMI in super obese people.
15.
Curtin F, Morabia A, Pichard C, Slosman DO. Body
mass index compared to dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry: evidence for
a spectrum bias. J Clin Epidemiol, Jul 1997;50(7):837-43
I re-interpret their study, into useful data.
16.
Bagust A, Walley T. An alternative to body mass
index for standardizing body weight for stature. QJM, Sep 2000;93(9):589-96
BMI isn't the only formula in the world. An alternative.
17.
Kaneshiro B, Jensen JT, Carlson NE., et al. Body
Mass Index and ual Behavior. Obstet Gynecol, Sept 2008; 112:586-92
So-called overweight women with BMI between 25 to 30 actually have the
most .
Children and Adolescents
1.
Reilly JJ, Dorosty AR, Emmett PM, et al. Identification
of the obese child: adequacy of the body mass index for clinical practice
and epidemiology. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord, Dec 2000;24(12):1623-7
Children Age 7 obesity criteria, methods.
2.
Sardinha LB, Going SB, Teixeira PJ, Lohman TG. Receiver
operating characteristic analysis of body mass index, triceps skinfold
thickness, and arm girth for obesity screening in children and adolescents.
Am J Clin Nutr, Dec 1999 ;70(6):1090-5
Children's overweight BMI criteria from Portugal.
3.
White EM, Wilson AC, Greene SA, et al. Body mass
index centile charts to assess fatness of British children. Arch Dis
Child, Jan 1995;72(1):38-41
Scottish and French Children's BMI compared.
4.
Hannan WJ, Wrate RM, Cowen SJ, Freeman CP. Body
mass index as an estimate of body fat. Int J Eat Disord, Jul 1995;18(1):91-7
Adolescent girls body fat percentage versus their BMI.
5.
da Veiga GV, Dias PC, dos Anjos LA. A comparison
of distribution curves of body mass index from Brazil and the United States
for assessing overweight and obesity in Brazilian adolescents. Rev
Panam Salud Publica, Aug 2001;10(2):79-85
Brazil adolescents BMI.
6.
Schaefer F, Georgi M, Wuhl E, Scharer K. Body
mass index and percentage fat mass in healthy German schoolchildren and
adolescents. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord, May 1998;22(5):461-9
Childrens BMI of 6 nations compared. Children's body fat percentiles
too.
7.
Malina RM, Katzmarzyk PT. Validity of the body
mass index as an indicator of the risk and presence of overweight in adolescents.
Am J Clin Nutr, Jul 1999;70(1):131S-6S
Adolescent's BMI cutoffs are pretty close to perfect, maybe slightly
too high.
8.
Goodman E, Hinden BR, S Khandelwal S. Accuracy
of teen and parental reports of obesity and body mass index. Pediatrics,
Jul 2000;106(1 Pt 1):52-8
Adolescent BMI cutoffs for obesity seem accurate.
9.
Rosner B, Prineas R, Loggie J, Daniels SR. Percentiles
for body mass index in U.S. children 5 to 17 years of age. Int J Obes
Relat Metab Disord, Oct 2001;25(10):1517-24
A HUGE study of American Children, implicitly questions the CDC overweight
criteria.
10.
Sampei MA, Novo NF, Juliano Y, Sigulem DM. Comparison
of the body mass index to other methods of body fat evaluation in ethnic
Japanese and Caucasian adolescent girls. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord,
Mar 2001;25(3):400-8
28% and 30% body fat are good obesity thresholds for adolescent
girls.
11.
Lazarus R, Baur L, Webb K, Blyth F. Body mass
index in screening for adiposity in children and adolescents: systematic
evaluation using receiver operating characteristic curves. Am J Clin
Nutr, Apr 1996;63(4):500-6
Agrees with CDC 85th and 95th percentile Overweight criteria, even in
Australian kids.
12.
Cole TJ, Roede MJ. Centiles of body mass index for
Dutch children aged 0-20 years in 1980--a baseline to assess recent trends
in obesity. Ann Hum Biol, Jul 1999;26(4):303-8
Dutch children's BMI distribution.
.
Race and National differences
1.
Gilmore J. Body mass index and health. Health
Reports, Jan 1999; 11(1):31-43. (Statistics Canada).
Canadians! Their BMI criteria and average weights.
2.
Chinn S, Rona RJ. International definitions of
overweight and obesity for children: a lasting solution? Ann Hum Biol
2002 May-Jun;29(3):306-13
At Age=19.5 overweight is above BMI=25 in the United Kingdom.
3.
Deurenberg-Yap M, Schmidt G, van Staveren WA, Deurenberg P. The
paradox of low body mass index and high body fat percentage among Chinese,
Malays and Indians in Singapore. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord, Aug
2000;24(8):1011-7
Singapore Asians need lower BMI overweight thresholds.
4.
Rolland-Cachera MF, Cole TJ, Sempe M, et al. Body
Mass Index variations: centiles from birth to 87 years. Eur J Clin
Nutr, Jan 1991;45(1):13-21
The French, are less fat than Americans. BMI charts.
5.
Deurenberg P, Deurenberg-Yap M. Differences in body-composition
assumptions across ethnic groups: practical consequences. Curr Opin
Clin Nutr Metab Care 2001 Sep;4(5):377-83
Summary of reasons why Asians and Black Americans need
different BMI criteria.
6.
Hebebrand J, Himmelmann GW, Heseker H, et al. Use
of percentiles for the body mass index in anorexia nervosa: diagnostic,
epidemiological and therapeutic considerations. Int J Eat Disord,
May 1996;19(4):359-69
German data, showing gradual increase in BMI during hood.
7.
Wang J, Thornton JC, Burastero S, et al. Comparisons
for body mass index and body fat percent among Puerto Ricans, blacks,
whites and Asians living in New York City area. Obes Res, Jul 1996;4(4):377-84
New York's White, Black, Asian, Puerto Rican, mean BMI and Body
Fat percentages.
8.
Deurenberg P, Yap M, van Staveren WA. Body mass index
and percent body fat: a meta analysis among different ethnic groups.
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord, Dec 1998;22(12):1164-71
Different BMI overweight thresholds for different races.
9.
He M, Tan KC, Li ET, Kung AW. Body fat determination
by dual energy X-ray absorptiometry and its relation to body mass index
and waist circumference in Hong Kong Chinese. Int J Obes Relat Metab
Disord, May 2001;25(5):748-52
Hong Kong Chinese need lower BMI obesity and overweight thresholds.
10.
Jackson AS, Stanforth PR, Gagnon J, et a.l The
effect of , age and race on estimating percentage body fat from body
mass index: the Heritage Family Study. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord,
Jun 2002;26(6):789-96
No difference between Black and White American's body fat % versus BMI.
Age affects body fat.
11.
Hebebrand J, Himmelmann GW, Wewetzer C, Gutenbrunner C, et al. Body
weight in acute anorexia nervosa and at follow-up assessed with percentiles
for the body mass index: implications of a low body weight at referral.
Int J Eat Disord, May 1996;19(4):347-57
German BMI percentiles shown. Anorexia BMI values at diagnosis
and follow-up.
12.
Norgan NG. Population differences in body composition
in relation to the body mass index. Eur J Clin Nutr, Nov 1994;48 Suppl
3:S10-25; discussion S26-7
Rural non-Europeans body fat % versus BMI is similar worldwide.
13.
Gallagher D, Visser M, Sepulveda D et al. How useful
is body mass index for comparison of body fatness across age, , and
ethnic groups? Am J Epidemiol, Feb 1996;143(3):228-39
No difference between New York's Black and White persons
BMI and body fat.
14.
Wang J, Thornton JC, Russell M,et al. Asians have
lower body mass index (BMI) but higher percent body fat than do whites:
comparisons of anthropometric measurements. Am J Clin Nutr, Jul 1994;60(1):23-8
Asians have higher body fat at lower BMI than whites.
15.
Deurenberg P, Andreoli A, Borg P et al. The validity
of predicted body fat percentage from body mass index and from impedance
and in samples of five European populations. Eur J Clin Nutr, Nov
2001;55(11):973-9
For Europeans, BMI criteria are OK. Body fat percentages used.
16.
Choo V. WHO reassesses appropriate body-mass
index for Asian populations. The Lancet, Jul 2002 20;360(9328):235
World Health Organization sets lower BMI criteria for Asians.
.
Older s
1.
Sardinha LB, Teixeira PJ. Obesity screening in older
women with the body mass index: a receiver operating characteristic (ROC)
analysis. Science and Sports, Jul 2000; 15: 212-9
Elderly women's BMI overweight criteria.
2.
Launer LJ, Harris T. Weight, height and body mass
index distributions in geographically and ethnically diverse samples of
older persons. Age Ageing. 1996 Jul;25(4):300-6.
In Elderly s, an apparently overweight BMI does not cause
poor health.
3.
Allison DB, Zhu SK, Plankey M, FaithMS, Heo M. Differential
associations of body mass index and adiposity with all-cause mortality
among men in the first and second National Health and Nutrition Examination
Surveys (NHANES I and NHANES II) follow-up studies. Int J Obes Relat
Metab Disord, Mar 2002;26(3):410-6
A BMI of 27.3 has the lowest mortality rate in older s.
4.
Bedogni G, Pietrobelli A, Heymsfield SB et al. Is
body mass index a measure of adiposity in elderly women? Obes Res,
Jan 2001;9(1):17-20
Elderly women's body fat is about 5% greater than younger
women.
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