How to Use body mass index in a Sentence

body mass index

noun

• A person with a body mass index of more than 30 is considered to be obese.
• In many of the physician notes, the first line noted the patient’s body mass index (BMI) of 41.
  — Ashley Andreou, Scientific American, 26 May 2022
• Everyone in the study had a BMI, or body mass index, of at least 35.
  — Carla K. Johnson, The Seattle Times, 16 Oct. 2018
• And boys' body mass index as children might play a role.
  — Minali Nigam, CNN, 22 July 2019
• But the teen had a body mass index in the normal range, with average height and weight.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 4 Sep. 2019
• Trump also is obese, with a body mass index just past 30.
  — The Associated Press, NOLA.com, 2 Oct. 2020
• The study involved 16 people with a body mass index in the overweight or obese range.
  — Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Oct. 2022
• The new guidelines, like the old ones, are based on body mass index, a measure of weight versus height.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2022
• The health baseline most doctors use is body mass index, or BMI, a score based on height and weight.
  — Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2020
• Most patients in the trial had a body mass index, or BMI, of 30 or higher.
  — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 1 Jan. 2023
• Humans die when their body mass index (BMI) is around 12.
  — Mark Barna, Discover Magazine, 24 Sep. 2018
• But in children, that ratio, called the body mass index, is measured as a range.
  — Anne Saker, The Enquirer, 9 Nov. 2021
• Among the higher risk groups include people with a body mass index of 25 or more.
  — Christopher Brito, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2021
• The whole idea of body mass index (BMI) was invented by a bunch of white dudes that were studying a bunch of white people in the ’40s.
  — WIRED, 24 Jan. 2023
• Weight loss for anyone who is overweight or obese based on body mass index.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 27 July 2024
• Players were matched with people of the same age, race and body mass index, and their results were compared.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2022
• One of the main causes is being overweight (defined as a body mass index, or BMI, of over 25).
  — James Myhre & Dennis Sifris, Md, Verywell Health, 3 Sep. 2024
• Either way, his body mass index would have defined him as obese.
  — Annie Karni, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2020
• Obesity is measured as a function of the body mass index, a ratio of height to weight.
  — Sam Stebbins, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2018
• This includes overweight folks — anyone with a body mass index of 25 or above.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Oct. 2021
• The average change in BMI (body mass index) was -16 percent in the treatment group, and +0.6 percent in the placebo group.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 3 Nov. 2022
• The survey counted people with a body mass index of 30 or more as obese, and those with a B.M.I. of 40 or more as severely obese.
  — Matt Richtel and Andrew Jacobs, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2018
• Height and weight were average, and body mass index was normal.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 4 Sep. 2019
• The participants had a body mass index, or BMI, ranging from 22 to 27.
  — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 9 Feb. 2023
• All three groups had a decline in waist and hip circumference and body mass index (BMI).
  — Sarah Garone, Health, 29 Mar. 2024
• Even body mass index—the tool that providers use to diagnose obesity—may be flawed.
  — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 19 Jan. 2024
• Participants had a body mass index, or BMI, of 27 or greater.
  — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 26 June 2023
• Only 50, the Parkland resident has a high body mass index that put him at risk of a worse outcome.
  — Cindy Krischer Goodman, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Feb. 2021
• In one study, people who followed a low-sodium diet for two months saw reductions in body weight and body mass index (BMI).
  — Brittany Lubeck, Ms, Rdn, Verywell Health, 22 Oct. 2024
• More than two-thirds of Medicare beneficiaries are classified as either obese or overweight, according to their body mass index, the CBO said.
  — Annika Kim Constantino,ashley Capoot, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024