BMI

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Noun

BMI (plural BMIs)

  1. Initialism of body mass index.
    The Federal Obesity Clinical Guidelines define underweight as a BMI of 18 or less, overweight as a BMI of 25 to 29.9 and obesity as a BMI of 30 and above.
    • 2015 November 9, Melissa Healy, “Pear-shaped vs. apple trumps body mass index as a measure of risk”, in Los Angeles Times‎:
      Even at BMIs above 30, where obesity begins, men and women whose waist-to-hip ratio identified them as more pear-shaped were less likely to die -- of any cause and of cardiovascular causes -- than those with similar BMIs who were apple-shaped.
    • 2022 August 30, Ricardo Ruiz-Villaverde, Lourdes Rodriguez Fernandez-Freire, Pilar Font-Ugalde, Manuel Galan-Gutierrez, “Tildrakizumab: Efficacy, Safety and Survival in Mid-Term (52 Weeks) in Three Tertiary Hospitals in Andalucia (Spain)”, in Journal of Clinical Medicine‎, volume 11, number 17, →DOI, page 5:
      In the bivariate analysis carried out by subgroups, we did not find statistically significant differences (p < 0.05) between bionaïve or bioexperienced patients, patients with BMI < 30 or BMI > 30 in relation to the efficacy variables (PASI and BSA) and analyzed PROs (VAS pruritus and DLQI).
  2. (computing) Initialism of brain–machine interface.
    Synonym: BCI

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body mass index

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