title: A nomograph method for assessing body weight.
abstract: The ratio of weight/height emerges from varied epidemiological studies as the most generally useful index of relative body mass in adults. The authors present a nomograph to facilitate use of this relationship in clinical situations. While showing the range of weight given as desirable in life insurance studies, the scale expresses relative weight as a continuous variable. This method encourages use of clinical judgment in interpreting "overweight" and "underweight" and in accounting for muscular and skeletal contributions to measured mass.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001824:Body Constitution; D001827:Body Height; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008433:Mathematics; D009765:Obesity / Q000175:diagnosis; D013851:Thinness / Q000175:diagnosis