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...most measures, Kelly Bliss, 50, surely seems to have let herself go. The Lansdowne, Pa., resident stands 5 ft. 2 in. in her stockings but tips the scales at nearly 200 lbs. Run those numbers through the body mass index (BMI)--the statistical measure that factors height and weight to diagnose obesity--and Bliss scores higher than 35. Anything above 25 is overweight; anything above 30 is obese. In the nation's ongoing war with obesity-related health problems, Bliss is one more casualty, right...
...Lawrence Cheskin of the Johns Hopkins Weight Management Center in Baltimore, Md., has concluded something similar. The patients who visit his clinic have an average BMI of 37--moderately to severely obese. Yet only about 30% of them have hypertension, and only 20% have diabetes. While he doesn't speculate about what's behind the low diabetes numbers, physical activity does appear to play a major role in keeping blood pressure in check. "Generally, the health benefits of fitness are cardiovascular," Cheskin says...
According to the study, girls and boys with BMIs between the 50th and 74th percentiles were five times more likely than their thinner peers—children who had a BMI that fell below the 50th percentile—to become overweight later in life...
...results suggest that children above the 50th percentile of BMI for age and gender might benefit from prevention efforts,” she said...
...addition researchers found that boys with a higher BMI were four or five more times likely to have hypertension...