Endogenous sex hormone levels are associated with the revised Framingham Stroke Risk Profile in postmenopausal women: a longitudinal study in a Swedish cohort by Kristin Ottarsdottir, Åsa Tivesten, Claes Ohlsson, Ying Li, Margareta Hellgren, Ulf Lindblad, Bledar Daka

“…Regression analyses of log-transformed rFSRP were fitted against levels of sex hormones (17-α-OH-progesterone, estrone, estradiol, progesterone, dihydrotestosterone, dehydroepiandrosterone, testosterone and androstenedione), adjusting for body mass index (BMI) or waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), C-reactive protein (CRP) and cholesterol level. …”
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Dietary Beliefs and Their Association with Overweight and Obesity in the Spanish Child Population by María Teresa Murillo-Llorente, Alma María Palau-Ferrè, María Ester Legidos-García, Javier Pérez-Murillo, Francisco Tomás-Aguirre, Blanca Lafuente-Sarabia, Adalberto Asins-Cubells, Miriam Martínez-Peris, Ignacio Ventura, Jorge Casaña-Mohedo, Marcelino Pérez-Bermejo

“…Statistical analyses were used to identify associations between dietary beliefs and body mass index. Results: In total, 29.5% of participants were overweight or obese. …”
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Analysis of influencing factors of washed microbiota transplantation in treating patients with metabolic syndrome by De-Jiang Lin, Dong-Xia Hu, Qing-Ting Wu, Lin-Gui Huang, Zi-Han Lin, Jia-Ting Xu, Xing-Xiang He, Lei Wu, Lei Wu

“…Not only the changes in body mass index [BMI = weight (kg)/height (m)2], blood glucose, blood lipids, and blood pressure were analyzed, but also the influencing factors of WMT in treating MS patients were carried out based on Logistic Regression. …”
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Mechanisms of the Effect of Starvation Duration on the Regulation of Feeding Rhythm and Metabolic Physiology of Cultured Large Yellow Croaker (<i>Larimichthys crocea</i>) by Xiaomeng Wang, Huang Liu, Chenglin Zhang, Chen Zhu, Huiyi Liu

“…Therefore, in order to further promote the technological advancement of large yellow croaker in the field of deep-sea aquaculture, this experiment aimed to investigate the effects of varying starvation durations on the feeding rhythm and physiological state of large yellow croaker. With an initial body mass of 122.62 ± 11.08 g and a body length of (17.9 ± 1.04) cm as the samples, the experiment was divided into five groups, which were starved for 0 d (S0), 2 d (S2), 4 d (S4), 8 d (S8), and 16 d (S16) before resumption of feeding. …”
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Correlations between Traditional and Nontraditional Indicators of Adiposity, Inflammation, and Monocyte Subtypes in Patients with Stable Coronary Artery Disease by Silvia Bueno Garofallo, Vera Lucia Portal, Melissa Medeiros Markoski, Lucinara Dadda Dias, Alexandre Schaan de Quadrosa, Aline Marcadenti

“…Traditional anthropometric indicators of adiposity (body mass index (BMI); waist, hip, and neck circumferences; and waist-hip ratio) and nontraditional anthropometric indicators of adiposity (lipid accumulation product index (LAP), visceral adiposity index (VAI), and deep-abdominal-adipose-tissue index (DAAT)) were determined. …”
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Multi-omics architecture of childhood obesity and metabolic dysfunction uncovers biological pathways and prenatal determinants by Nikos Stratakis, Augusto Anguita-Ruiz, Lorenzo Fabbri, Léa Maitre, Juan R. González, Sandra Andrusaityte, Xavier Basagaña, Eva Borràs, Hector C. Keun, Lida Chatzi, David V. Conti, Jesse Goodrich, Regina Grazuleviciene, Line Småstuen Haug, Barbara Heude, Wen Lun Yuan, Rosemary McEachan, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, Eduard Sabidó, Rémy Slama, Cathrine Thomsen, Jose Urquiza, Theano Roumeliotaki, Marina Vafeiadi, John Wright, Mariona Bustamante, Martine Vrijheid

“…Further, by incorporating comprehensive information from the environmental risk-scape of the critical pregnancy period, we identify pre-pregnancy body mass index and environmental pollutants like perfluorooctanoate and mercury as important determinants of the high-risk cluster. …”
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Pharmacological and Toxicological Threshold of Bisammonium Tetrakis 4-(N,N-Dimethylamino)pyridinium Decavanadate in a Rat Model of Metabolic Syndrome and Insulin Resistance by Samuel Treviño, Alfonso Díaz, Eduardo Sánchez-Lara, Víctor Enrique Sarmiento-Ortega, José Ángel Flores-Hernández, Eduardo Brambila, Francisco J. Meléndez, Enrique González-Vergara

“…Then, an improvement on each of the following parameters was observed at a 5 µmol dose: weight reduction, abdominal perimeter, fatty index, body mass index, oral glucose tolerance test, lipid profile, and adipokine and insulin resistance indexes. …”
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Tomographic features of lung damage associate with D-Dimer levels and further clinical outcome in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome due to COVID-19 by Juan Antonio Suárez-Cuenca, José Fernando Flores-Zaleta, Leslie Andrea Corona-Rojas, Pablo Guzmán-Rullán, Luis Alfonso Camacho-Barajas, Uzziel Aguilera-Ontiveros, Alberto Melchor-López, Alejandro González-Mora, Perla Marlene Guzmán-Ramírez, Janicia Rodríguez-Solis

“…Larger lung damage was associated with older age, male gender and higher pro-inflammatory mediators like leukocytes and ferritin; whilst consolidation pattern was related to higher Body Mass Index. Higher values of D-Dimer were related either to a larger extent of lung involvement or late consolidation pattern. …”
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Associations between night-time sleep duration and fasting glucose and ratio of triglyceride to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol among adults free of type 2 diabetes or without... by Rong Zhang, Li Zhang, Qiang Li, Minying Zhang, Feng Liu, Shuo Chen, Yu-Jie Niu, Xin Qi, Chunjun Li, Jiangshan He, Chenglin Hong, Yuxue Wang, Yaqi Fan, Pei Guo, Binbin Zhang, Shitao Ma, Mianzhi Zhang

“…Objectives We aimed to assess the associations between night-time sleep duration and fasting glucose (FG), triglyceride (TG) to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) ratio and body mass index (BMI) among adults free of type 2 diabetes (T2D) or without diagnosed T2D.Design Cross-sectional study.Setting Medical examination centres at six hospitals in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, China.Participants Participants were recruited via multistage, stratified cluster sampling. …”
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Development of an artificial intelligence-based application for the diagnosis of sarcopenia: a retrospective cohort study using the health examination dataset by Chang-Won Jeong, Dong-Wook Lim, Si-Hyeong Noh, Sung Hyun Lee, Chul Park

“…Additionally, we developed an algorithm for the calculation of T-Score calculated as (measurement value-Young adult mean)/(Young adult SD) using the Aggregation Pipeline by MongoDB, with the mean and standard deviation for skeletal muscle area (SMA), SMA/height2, SMA/weight, and SMA/body mass index (BMI) for both sexes and different age groups. …”
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Early Subclinical Atherosclerosis in Gestational Diabetes: The Predictive Role of Routine Biomarkers and Nutrigenetic Variants by Marica Franzago, Federica Fraticelli, Marta Di Nicola, Francesco Bianco, Daniela Marchetti, Claudio Celentano, Marco Liberati, Raffaele De Caterina, Liborio Stuppia, Ester Vitacolonna

“…We also found significant associations between the APOA5 CC genotype and cIMT after adjustments for age and body mass index (p=0.045) and between the interaction CC APOA5/CC LDLR and cIMT (p=0.010). …”
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Epidemiological features of uterine fibroid-associated imaging changes in Chinese women of reproductive age: a retrospective study by Wei Xu, Lijun Zhang, Qiuling Shi, Fan Xu, Ke Chen, Yanyan Huang, Ruoyan Gong, Yang Pu, Xueyao Su, Jiayuan Zhang, Bingqian Zhou

“…Logistic regression estimated the association (OR, 95% CI of body mass index, high blood pressure (HBP), blood lipid profile, and fasting blood glucose level) with UF-associated imaging changes. …”
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Effect of differences in vascular anatomy on surgical outcomes of left pancreatectomy: a retrospective study by Masahiro Fukada, Noriki Mitsui, Takeshi Horaguchi, Yuji Hatanaka, Itaru Yasufuku, Yuta Sato, Jesse Yu Tajima, Shigeru Kiyama, Yoshihiro Tanaka, Katsutoshi Murase, Nobuhisa Matsuhashi

“…In open-LP cases, high body mass index (> 24 kg/m2; OR 7.24; 95% CI 1.89–36.34; p < 0.01), tumor location (pancreatic body; OR 6.89; 95% CI 1.79–33.79; p < 0.01), and the SpA type (type 2; OR 5.86; 95% CI 1.72–24.65; p < 0.01) showed significant association with prolonged operations. …”
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Smoking and secondhand smoke exposure and carotid intima-media thickness: Baseline data from the Aidai Cohort Study in Japan by Makoto Saito, Yoshihiro Miyake, Keiko Tanaka, Chisato Nagata, Hidenori Senba, Yasuko Hasebe, Toyohisa Miyata, Takashi Higaki, Eizen Kimura, Bunzo Matsuura, Osamu Yamaguchi, Ryuichi Kawamoto

“…Age, alcohol consumption, leisure time physical activity, hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes mellitus, body mass index, waist circumference, employment, and education level were adjusted at one time. …”
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Association between weight-adjusted-waist index and long-term prognostic outcomes in cardiovascular disease patients: results from the NHANES 1999–2018 study by Hanbin Li, Wen Zhong, Hongxin Cheng, Shiqi Wang, Ran Li, Lu Wang, Chengqi He, Quan Wei

“…WWI’s AUC were higher than those of body mass index (BMI) and WC (all P < 0.01). Conclusion Our findings indicate that a high WWI is positively associated with an increased risk of all-cause mortality. …”
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Exploring and detecting predictors associated with survival and mortality of cervical cancer patients: a 10-year retrospective study by Shaba Muneeha, Raushan Kumar Chaudhary, Vijith Vittal Shetty, Soumya Patil, Uday Venkat Mateti

“…Most of the patients had abnormal body mass index (BMI) (46.96%), postmenopausal stage (75.76%), stage II cancer (43.03%), histologically poorly differentiated grade (47.88%) and squamous cell carcinoma (87.88%), with radiation plus chemotherapy being popular treatment choice (48.79%) and with the overall mean age of 56 years. …”
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Stochastic Modeling of Adaptive Trait Evolution in Phylogenetics: A Polynomial Regression and Approximate Bayesian Computation Approach by Dwueng-Chwuan Jhwueng, Chia-Hua Chang

“…We also plan to apply models to the empirical study using the two datasets: the longevity vs. fecundity in the Mediterranean nekton group, and the trophic niche breadth vs. body mass in carnivores in a European forest region.…”
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Insulin Resistance Increases MRI-Estimated Pancreatic Fat in Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Normal Controls by Niraj S. Patel, Michael R. Peterson, Grace Y. Lin, Ariel Feldstein, Bernd Schnabl, Ricki Bettencourt, Ekihiro Seki, Claude B. Sirlin, Rohit Loomba

“…Compared to healthy controls, patients with NAFLD had significantly higher pancreatic MRI-PDFF (3.6% versus 8.5%, P value <0.001), and these results remained consistent in multivariable-adjusted models including age, sex, body mass index, and diabetes (P value =0.03). We found a strong correlation between hepatic and pancreatic MRI-PDFF (Spearman correlation, P = 0.57, P value <0.001). …”
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Clinical efficacy of a virtual reality tool for the treatment of obesity: study protocol of a randomised controlled trial by Dimitra Anastasiadou, Jose Antonio Ramos-Quiroga, Mel Slater, Bernhard Spanlang, Desiderio Cano Porras, Marta Comas, Andreea Ciudin, Gemma Parramon Puig, Julia Vázquez-De Sebastián, Pilar Lusilla-Palacios

“…The objective of this study is to assess the clinical efficacy of a VR intervention that uses embodiment and body-swapping techniques and has been specifically developed to cover the needs of PLWO.Methods and analysis A randomised control trial will be carried out with an estimated sample of 96 participants with body mass index (BMI)&gt;30. The whole duration of the trial will be 12 months. …”
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PPARα Gene Is Involved in Body Composition Variation in Response to an Aerobic Training Program in Overweight/Obese by Glêbia A. Cardoso, Mateus D. Ribeiro, Bruno R. V. Sousa, Yohanna de Oliveira, Klécia F. Sena, Joane R. E. Batista, Antônio E. M. Almeida, João M. Filho, Raquel S. B. Silva, Darlene C. Persuhn, Alexandre S. Silva

“…Fifty-eight previously inactive men and women, body mass index (BMI) 31.5±2.8 kg/m2, 46.5% (n=27) genotyped as CC genotype and 53.5% (n=31) as CA+AA, underwent a 12-week aerobic training (walking/running). …”
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