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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Either way, his body mass index would have defined him as obese.
  — Annie Karni, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2020
• 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
• 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
• The threshold for obesity concern was lowered from a body mass index of 40 down to 30.
  — Mike Stobbe, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2020
• In adults, obesity is defined as having a body mass index of 30 or more.
  — John Fauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Aug. 2021
• The authors cautioned that body mass index is not a perfect yardstick.
  — New York Times, 4 Sep. 2019
• The patients' mean age was 61, and the mean body mass index was 33, falling in the category of obesity.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 13 Nov. 2023
• Young people who have a body mass index that meets or exceeds the 95th percentile for kids of the same age and gender are considered obese.
  — Jonel Aleccia, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2023
• But there’s another one that’s received less notice, and it’s based on body mass index, or BMI.
  — Kiera Feldman Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2021
• The authors also found younger people, women and participants with a lower body mass index had less frequent bowel movements.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 24 July 2024
• Those eligible to participate in the free program are adults who have a body mass index of 30 or above, are non-diabetic and meet specific income thresholds.
  — Sarah Volpenhein, Journal Sentinel, 26 July 2024

Last Updated: 25 Sep 2024