ideal body weight

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ideal body weight (IBW),

the weight statistically determined on actuarial tables to be associated with the lowest mortality for an average individual, adjusting for some combination of height, age, frame size, and gender. Which factors should be included and how it should be determined remain controversial.

ideal body weight

A person's optimum weight, defined by the Metropolitan Life Tables, see there

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