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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Prevalence Rates of Self-Care Behaviors and Related Factors in a Rural Hypertension Population: A Questionnaire Survey by Huanhuan Hu, Gang Li, Takashi Arao

“…The logistic regression model was used for the analysis of any association between self-care behaviors and age, gender, duration of hypertension, self-rated health, marital status, education level, diabetes status, or body mass index. Subjects that adhered to their medication schedule were more likely to have hypertension for a long duration (OR, 3.44; 95% CI 1.99–5.97). …”
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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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Base de datos para Thirst response to post-exercise fluid replacement needs and controlled drinking by Catalina Capitán-Jiménez, Luis Fernando Aragón-Vargas

“…They remained at rest or exercised at 32±3°C db and 65±6% rh to a randomly assigned dehydration equivalent to 1, 2, and 3% of body mass (BM). Following exercise, participants ingested a fixed water volume of 1.20% BM in 30 minutes; urine output, TP and plasma volume changes were assessed every 30 minutes over 3 hours. …”
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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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Validation of the unique OUES scale (ΔV02, VE slope) in functional reserve assessment of cardiorespiratory system for Iranian children by Akbar Sazvar, Farzad Nazem

“…The increasing application of Graded exercise test (GXT) to determine the clinical symptoms or achieve a safe level of physical and metabolic responses in a wide range of healthy or patients individuals is common .On the other hand, the findings a reliable physiologic indicator that can evaluate the practical storage level of cardiorespiratory without the need to perform tests above the lactate threshold is important. 72 healthy young males with a mean age 13.95 ± 1.84(years) and body mass index of 19.91 ± 3.4(kg /m2) participated in an aerobic exhaustive test and VO2max value using gas analyzer method        (VE, VO2, VCO2 values) were measured with a breath by breath style. …”
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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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Ruvbl1 silencing affects reproduction of the corn planthopper, Peregrinus maidis. by César A D Xavier, Clara Tyson, Anna E Whitfield

“…Silencing of P. maidis Ruvbl1 (PmRuvbl1) was correlated with visible morphology changes in female individuals with significant increases in body mass observed at 8 and 12 days after double strand RNA (dsRNA) injection. …”
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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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Current preeclampsia prediction model and biomarker by Anak Agung Ngurah Jaya Kusuma

“…These include parameters such as maternal age, body mass index (BMI), number of pregnancies and births, blood pressure, and uterine arterial pulse index (UtA-PI). …”
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Wharton’s Jelly Mesenchymal Stem Cell Administration Improves Quality of Life and Self-Sufficiency in Children with Cerebral Palsy: Results from a Retrospective Study by Dariusz Boruczkowski, Izabela Zdolińska-Malinowska

“…Adverse events were mild and temporary except one case of epilepsy deterioration leading to treatment discontinuation. Age, body mass, and cell dose were not significant predictors of QoL response, contrary to epilepsy; developmental breakthrough was dose-dependent.…”
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Physical activity and erectile dysfunction: a systematic review by Camila Araujo, Melissa Souza, Aline Fernandes, Andreia Pelegrini, Alexandro Andrade, Adriana Guimarães

“…ED appeared to be associated with different factors related to men’s lifestyle, particularly their level of education, non-communicable chronic diseases, body mass index and age. …”
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