A Methodological Critique of the 'Ideal Weight' Concept

作者: Thomas R. Knapp

DOI: 10.1001/JAMA.1983.03340040046030

关键词: Body heightIdeal weightSex factorsIdeal (set theory)Body weightGerontologyFramingham Risk ScoreMedicinePositive economicsBody size

摘要: This article raises several objections to the procedures that were employed determine ideal (optimal, desirable) weights in 1959 and 1979 Build Blood Pressure studies, Framingham (Mass) study, recent study of relationship between weight mortality carried out by American Cancer Society. The new height-weight tables based on are also criticized. concludes with recommendation concept be abandoned attention devoted morbidity experience "outliers" (the very thin obese). ( JAMA 1983;250:506-510)

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