The BMI is an attempt to quantify the amount of tissue mass (muscle, fat, and bone) in an individual, and then categorize that person as underweight, normal weight, overweight, or obese based on that value. However, there is some debate about where on the BMI scale the dividing lines between categories should be placed.
Bloating is any abnormal general swelling, or increase in diameter of the abdominal area. As a symptom, the patient feels a full and tight abdomen, which may cause abdominal pain, and sometimes accompanied by increased stomach growling, or more seriously, the total lack of it. 1 Symptoms.
Abdominal bloating is a very common symptom that affects 10-30% of people. Patients often can't. describe exactly what it means and may use a lot of different terms for it. Some may have to loosen. their clothes or see distension of their abdomen along with the sensation of bloating, while others. feel uncomfortably full but it does not show.