Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: SHARE data about older (aged 50 and more) Europeans are used to assess the adequacy of the traditional scale for deciding if a person is underweight, normal, overweight or obese. The results of measurements and calculations in 17 countries (15 from the EU, including Estonia, plus Switzerland and Israel) demonstrate that for older European people the traditional scale is somewhat biased. The scale used and suggested by geriatricians for people aged 65 and more is also more appropriate for people aged 50–64. By this scale, the people having BMI 23.0–29.9 are taken as normal. This classification is, by SHARE data, consistent with people’s self-esteem on their health, quality of life and coping with everyday life.
Source: Papers on Anthropology
Authors: Ene-Margit Tiit, Kai Saks
Institution: University of Tartu
Language: English
Subfield: Physiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2218817796