Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease
Volume 13, Issue 4 , Pages 421-427 , October 2006

A History of Obesity, or How What Was Good Became Ugly and Then Bad

  • Garabed Eknoyan

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    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to G. Eknoyan, MD, Department of Medicine (523-D), Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030.

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    The Venus of Willendorf. Limestone figure from the Late Paleolithic Period, c. 25,000 BC (Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria. Reproduced with permission.) Photo credit: Erich Lessing, Art Resou

    The Venus of Willendorf. Limestone figure from the Late Paleolithic Period, c. 25,000 BC (Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria. Reproduced with permission.) Photo credit: Erich Lessing, Art Resource, NY.

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    Stamp issued by Belgium to honor the many contributions of Adolphe Quetelet (1796-1874), astronomer and mathematician, who in his studies of probability statistics developed the “Quetelet Index,” also

    Stamp issued by Belgium to honor the many contributions of Adolphe Quetelet (1796-1874), astronomer and mathematician, who in his studies of probability statistics developed the “Quetelet Index,” also known as the body mass index (BMI).

PII: S1548-5595(06)00106-6

doi: 10.1053/j.ackd.2006.07.002

Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease
Volume 13, Issue 4 , Pages 421-427 , October 2006

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