Operation Manual

26 Evaluating the measurements
USA
• Persons taking cardiovascular medication (e.g. drugs
influencing vessels, circulatory or heart medication),
• Persons with considerably shorter or longer leg
length,
• Children under 10 years of age.
Body mass index (BMI)
The body mass index is used to distinguish between
underweight, normal weight and overweight. You can
calculate the value as follows:
Weight in lb/(body height in m)
2
.
The BMI is not very conclusive as an absolute value. It
must be associated with the gender and age of the per-
son. See the reference values provided in the following
tables.
BMI values for women
Age Under-
weight
Normal
weight
Slight
over-
weight
Over-
weight
16–24 <19 19–24 25–28 >28
25–34 <20 20–25 26–29 >29
35–44 <21 21–26 27–30 >30
45–54 <22 22–27 28–31 >31
55–64 <23 23–28 29–32 >32
>65 <24 24–29 30–33 >33