>>28165261No, a 5'0 person should be hovering around 100lbs.
This is to protect those organs. Also being underweight also poses health risks because, especially in females, it leads to disregulation of their menses, and thus their electrolyte composition. Seriously, women who are underweight are at severe risk for osteopenia and breaking bones more than women who are at normal weight and overweight due to their calcium equilibrium being fucked up.
>>28165327http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmi-chart.phpGo with that.
To put it into medical terms, everyone has an ideal body weight.
IBW = 50.0kg + (2.3 times every inch over 5 feet) for males
IBW = 45.5kg + (2.3 times every inch over 5 feet) for females
ABW= Weight in pounds/2.2lbs/kg
For medical references, we have to calculate Adjusted Body Weight for anyone whose ABW is >120% of their IBW to use that for calculating dosing.
AdjBW= IBW + 0.4*(ABW-IBW)
So in your case, your IBW = 73kg (160kgs), your ABW = 109.09kgs, and we would have to use your AdjBW = 87.4kg when dosing you for medications with weight based dosing.
