(n.) Weight over and above what is required by law or custom.
(n.) Superabundance of weight; preponderance.
(a.) Overweighing; excessive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Doctors have blamed rising levels of type 2 diabetes on the growing number of overweight and obese adults.
(2) 55% of the patients had overweight, which positively correlated to the occurrence of pathological glucose tolerance.
(3) We performed a stepwise discriminant analysis first with only casual and end exercise systolic and diastolic BP, then after introducing age, overweight (Lorentz's formula), duration of hypertension, Sokoloff index and cholesterolemia.
(4) Consequently, we measured pharyngeal area and its lung volume-related changes (LVRC) from functional residual capacity (FRC) to residual volume (RV) in overweight females, 14 with OSA and 14 without OSA.
(5) Numerous experts note that women, more frequently than men, are overweight and have greater difficulty adhering to reducing diets.
(6) The effect of benfluorex on hyperinsulinism in overweight patients with glucose intolerance or mildly increased fasting blood glucose levels is valuable in these high vascular risk patients.
(7) In February last year the BBC was forced to apologise to the Mexican ambassador after a joke made by the three presenters that the nation's cars were like the people "lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat".
(8) The situation is even worse in London, with almost a quarter of children starting primary school and over a third of year six children overweight or obese.
(9) The purpose of this investigation was to determine the accuracy of dietary-intake information of normal-weight vs overweight parents in their reports of their children's food intake.
(10) Using the body mass index, defined as weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters (kilogram per square meter), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey estimated that 26%, or 34 million, adult Americans aged 20 to 75 were overweight.
(11) The results also revealed that stunting, wasting and stunting together and overweight were more common in young workers who were both anaemic and had evidence of parasitic infection than those who were anaemic only or had parasitic infection only.
(12) In type 2 diabetics contradictory results have been obtained, probably related to varying degrees of body overweight in the patients investigated.
(13) So you're likely to be refused treatment if you're a smoker, overweight (such as having a body mass index above 30) or already have a child (adopted or biological).
(14) Overweight was reduced from 118% to 30.4% of normal body weight (Broca Index).
(15) The Coag Reform Council – which is to be disbanded at the end of this month – painted a mixed picture of health progress over the past five years, with life expectancy lengthening (to 79.9 years for men and 84.3 years for women) but the proportion of those who are obese or overweight is increasing (to 62.7%).
(16) 9.41pm BST Dodgers 0 - Cardinals 0, bottom of the 2nd The "demeaning euphemism for overweight" Matt Adams lines out to Adrian Gonzalez for the second out of the inning.
(17) The stunted and wasted child is likely to be at greater risk than a similarly stunted but normally proportioned or overweight child--both could be underweight for age.
(18) Fifty-two (41 females, 11 males) overweight patients, mean body mass index (BMI) = 29.3, were treated for 6 months in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel group design.
(19) The subjects were characterized as normal weight restrained, normal weight unrestrained, and overweight restrained.
(20) "The research we undertook for this campaign showed that only 6% of people understood the links between obesity, overweight and adverse health effects," said chief medical officer, Sir Liam Donaldson.