"index" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- To get a weight-loss bonus, a priest must trim 10 points from his body-mass index in a year.
- According to the body-mass index, I teeter on the threshold of being overweight, at 5 feet 2 inches and 140 pounds.
- They studied the twins' body-mass index, which is their weight corrected for their height.
- But his body-mass index, he said, "isn't off the charts.
- His appearance and body-mass index after his fast would not by themselves have alerted us to the risks of refeeding.
- Deaths from uterine cancer showed a similar pattern, with a sixfold increase in risk among women with a body-mass index over 40.
- Guidelines from the Institute of Medicine say that a woman with a normal body-mass index of 19.8 to 26 should gain 25 to 35 pounds.
- To determine obesity, that study measured body-mass index, a ratio of height to weight.
- For example, a 5-foot-6 woman weighing 185 pounds would have a body-mass index of 29.9.
- And it played merry hell with a formerly admirable body-mass index.
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