Tracking continuous positive airway pressure adherence in obstructive sleep apnea patients before, during, and after the COVID-19 lockdown by Abdulaziz O. BaHammam, Fawaz Alhuqayl, Ibrahim Alzaid, Ziyad Alzammam, Faisal Alhuqayl, Bader Rajeh, Galal Eldin Abbas Eltayeb, Samar Nashwan, Salih Aleissi, Ahmed Salem BaHammam

“…The presence of comorbidities, body mass index, and sex did not significantly influence CPAP treatment adherence. …”
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Alcohol Consumption and Risk of All-Cause and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in Men by Erin K. Howie, Xuemei Sui, Duck-chul Lee, Steven P. Hooker, James R. Hébert, Steven N. Blair

“…In the Cox proportional hazards model adjusted for age, year of examination, body mass index (BMI), smoking, family history of CVD, and aerobic fitness, there were no significant differences in risk of all-cause mortality across alcohol intake groups. …”
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Overweight among Four-Year-Old Children in Relation to Early Growth Characteristics and Socioeconomic Factors by Jörgen Thorn, Maria Waller, Maria Johansson, Staffan Mårild

“…To assess early growth characteristics and socioeconomic factors of children in relation to body mass index (BMI) and presence of overweight among four-year-old children. …”
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A Case of Successful Treatment with Unilateral Oophorectomy in a Patient with Resistant Polycystic Ovary Syndrome by S. Pathmanathan, I. Ranathunga, N. P. Somasundaram

“…On examination, she was obese with a body mass index (BMI) of 29.6 kg/m2. She had evidence of acanthosis nigricans, androgenic pattern balding, acne, dorsal, supraclavicular fat deposition, and moderate-severe hirsutism. …”
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Life quality of diabetic patients by Belkis Mercedes Vicente Sánchez, Gisela Zerquera Trujillo, Dania Peraza Alejo, Eduardo Castañeda Álvarez, Jorge Luís Irizar Hernández, Tiana Bravo Valladares

“…Variables: age, sex, years suffering from that disease, associated diseases and nutritional assessment according to the body mass index. <strong><br />Results:</strong> There was grater incidence of females, most of the patients were between 40 and 59 years; it was significant the association of diabetes with hypertension, mainly in overweight patients. …”
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Association between Uric Acid and Bone Mineral Density in Postmenopausal Women with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in China: A Cross-Sectional Inpatient Study by Xin Zhao, Xiaofeng Yu, Xiaomei Zhang

“…Meanwhile, there was a positive relation between estimated glomerular filtration rate and hip bone mineral density (r=0.22, p<0.05). (3) Logistic regression analysis showed that age, body mass index, and diabetic duration are independent risk factors for osteoporosis in postmenopausal women with type 2 diabetes mellitus. …”
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Mechanism Underlying Tissue Cryotherapy to Combat Obesity/Overweight: Triggering Thermogenesis by Suvaddhana Loap, Richard Lathe

“…In this retrospective study of individuals presenting for cryotherapy to the Clinic BioEsthetic, Paris, France, we recorded waist circumference, body weight, and body mass index (BMI) by direct measurement and by whole-body dual-energy X-ray absorptiometric scanning. …”
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Does ankle plantar and dorsiflexion affect fifty-meter swimming time in swimmers? by İsmet Alagöz, Sema Can, Erkan Demirkan, Tuğrul Özkadı

“…Anthropometric and body composition measures were obtained including body height, body mass, fat %, fat free mass (FFM). Besides, ankle flexibility was assessed by measuring ankle plantar flexion and ankle dorsiflexion and four style swimming performance was obtained in official competition. …”
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Assessing the Impact of Physical Activity on Dementia Progression Using Clustering and the MRI-Based Kullback–Leibler Divergence by Agnieszka Wosiak, Małgorzata Krzywicka, Katarzyna Żykwińska

“…Our study mainly focused on crucial parameters such as the body mass index (BMI), skeletal muscle index (SMI), and MRI biomarkers, including the hippocampal volume and white matter integrity. …”
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A Copy Number Variant on Chromosome 20q13.3 Implicated in Thinness and Severe Obesity by Sandra J. Hasstedt, Yuanpei Xin, Rong Mao, Tracey Lewis, Ted D. Adams, Steven C. Hunt

“…To identify copy number variants (CNVs) which are associated with body mass index (BMI). Subjects/Methods. CNVs were identified using array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) on members of pedigrees ascertained through severely obese (BMI ≥ 35 kg/m2) sib pairs (86 pedigrees) and thin (BMI ≤ 23 kg/m2) probands (3 pedigrees). …”
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Obesity Might Be a Predictor of Weight Reduction after Smoking Cessation by Charlotta Pisinger, Helle Øster Nielsen, Caroline Kuhlmann, Susanne Rosthøj

“…Predictors of weight reduction after smoking cessation were high body mass index and low tobacco consumption at baseline. …”
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Genetic polymorphisms of muscular fitness in young healthy men. by Tomas Venckunas, Hans Degens

“…Skeletal muscle function was measured with eight performance tests covering multiple aspects of muscular fitness. Along with body mass and height, the upper arm and limb girths, and maximal oxygen uptake were measured. …”
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Elevated Serum C-Reactive Protein and Markers of Sleep Disordered Breathing by R. Constance Wiener, Rouxin Zhang, Anoop Shankar

“…The additive score was not associated in men but moderately associated in women in a multivariable model adjusting for age, gender, race/ethnicity, education, smoking, hypertension, alcohol intake, physical activity, body mass index, depression, diabetes, hypertension, and total cholesterol (P-interaction =0.42). …”
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Association between Sleep Habits and Metabolically Healthy Obesity in Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study by Thirumagal Kanagasabai, Ramandeep Dhanoa, Jennifer L. Kuk, Chris I. Ardern

“…Higher body mass index (BMI) increases the risk of cardiometabolic diseases, but nearly a third of the people living with obesity (BMI: ≥30 kg/m2) are metabolically healthy (MHO). …”
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EFFECT OF DAILY TRIP SYSTEM ON PT. X CONTRACTOR WORKER FATIGUE AT OFFSHORE SITE by Desi Nuraini, Doni Hikmat Ramdhan

“…X Contractor workers at the offshore site were age, body mass index, and workload (p-value successive were 0.047, 0.014, and 0.001). …”
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Apelin Serum Level in Egyptian Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C by Hala O. El-Mesallamy, Nadia M. Hamdy, Hanan H. Rizk, Abdel-Rahman El-Zayadi

“…The present study was conducted to evaluate blood apelin level changes among 73 chronic hepatitis C (CHC) Egyptian patients and if associated with body mass index (BMI), IR, and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α). …”
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ETHOLOGICAL MECHANISMS OF THE MAINTENANCE OF COAT COLOR POLYMORPHISM IN THE POPULATION OF THE NORTHERN RED-BACKED VOLE (MYODES RUTILUS) ROUND NOVOSIBIRSK by O. F. Potapova, M. A. Potapov, V. V. Panov, V. I. Evsikov

“…Experimental studies have shown that mature males with the aberrant coloration outperform standard males in such adaptive characteristics as body mass and exploratory activity, rank higher in social hierarchy, have an optimal balance between amicability and aggressiveness, and are more attractive for receptive females. …”
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Asymptomatic Urinary Abnormalities Among Unselected Adults in a Rural Community in Bauchi, Northeast Nigeria by Abdu Alhaji, Ibrahim M. Maigari, Hamisu Abdulrasheed, Umar Murtala, Binta A. Lasan, Sambo B. Zailani

“…Among the hypertensives, 12% were aware of their hypertensive status and were on treatment, while 16% were aware of their hypertensive status but never took medications. The mean body mass index (BMI) of the subjects was 21.6 ± 3.6 kg/m2 and only 2.5% were obese. …”
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Behavioural Risk Factors, Hypertension Knowledge, and Hypertension in Rural India by Eslavath Rajkumar, John Romate

“…It was also observed that factors such as smoking (OR = 0.29; CI: 090–0.961), fruit and vegetable consumption (OR = 1.32; CI: 1.01–1.74), body mass index (OR = 1.85; CI: 1.21–2.84), and age group (OR = 1.55; CI: 1.14–2.11) were significantly associated with the odds of hypertension. …”
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Pseudohypoparathyroidism type 1A presenting as short stature and congenital hypothyroidism by Ragini Kondetimmanahalli, Jane Lynch, Gary Francis, Heather Gardner, Radhika Pillai

“…For the primary care provider, simple measures of standing height, sitting height, arm span, weight, body mass index (BMI) and bone age (BA) will lead to the correct diagnosis in most short children. …”
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