Synonyms for bmi
bmi

Princeton's WordNet

1. body mass index, BMInoun

   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

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1. List of paraphrases for "bmi":

   imc, gci, imb, oio, imdb, bmis

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1. BMI

   Synonyms:
   Body mass index, Quetelet index

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1. Kristen Smith:

   There's a lot more to assessing health than knowing one's body weight, an individual with a normal BMI may have fat stored in locations in their body that could put them at increased risk for chronic diseases and heart failure.

2. Naho Morisaki:

   Japanese have extremely low gestational weight gain among thin and normal BMI women, which explains why birthweight is low even compared to other east Asians who also generally tend to be thin like Japanese.

3. Krishnan Bhaskaran:

   BMI higher than 25, the upper end of healthy, is linked to most cancers, most cardiovascular diseases, respiratory disease, and liver and kidney conditions.

4. Deborah Gustafson:

   So by mixing BMI measurements between the ages of 40 and 60, with those after the age of 60 and 65, you’re really looking at two different periods in the life course in relationship to dementia onset.

5. Marian Jarlenski:

   I would have thought that San Francisco (restaurants) would be better than Boston and Little Rock ... because San Francisco is one of the lowest-BMI cities.