BMI

See also: bmi-

English

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^[1]:

     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^[2], 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

Translations

body mass index

• Afrikaans: LMI
• Catalan: IMC (ca) m
• Dutch: BMI (nl) m, QI m
• French: IMC (fr) m
• German: KMI m, KMZ f
• Greek: ΔΣΒ (DSV)
• Polish: BMI (pl) n
• Portuguese: IMC (pt) m
• Russian: ИМТ m (IMT)
• Spanish: IMC (es) m
• Swedish: BMI (sv) n

Anagrams

• Bim, IBM, MIB, MiB, Mib, bim, mib