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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Assessment of obesity indices and disease severity in male patients with obstructive sleep apnea: a cross-sectional study by Ahmed Gharib, Mai S. Elsheikh, Yasmine H. El-Hinnawy, Gehan Hamdy

“…This work aims to determine the cut-off values of the body mass index (BMI), waist to hip ratio (WHR), neck circumference (NC) that can be used to predict the occurrence of OSA and its severity. …”
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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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The Association of Neutrophil Lymphocyte Ratio and Glycemic Markers in Hemodialysis Patients by Mustafa Topal

“…Results: NLR was positively correlated with predialysis glucose (p=0.000, r=0.338), body mass index (p=0.029, r=0.220), white blood cell (p=0.000, r=0.430), platelet (p=0.034, r=0.159), neutrophil (p=0.000, r=0.656) and C-reactive protein (p=0.00, r=0.377) levels. …”
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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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The Impact of Maternal Weight With Fetal Outcome; A Cohort Study In An Underdeveloped Region Of Pakistan by Shahzad Bashir Momina, Naila Mushtaq, Suniya Arshad Butt, Sobia Nawaz, Ayesha Asad, Shazia Syed

“…All antenatal women as early as 16 weeks presented for antenatal visits, were included. Their BMI (body mass index) was calculated. Their increase in weight during pregnancy was noted. …”
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Clinical and Radiographic Characteristics as Predictive Factors of Swelling and Trismus after Mandibular Third Molar Surgery: A Longitudinal Approach by José Manuel Pérez-González, Vicente Esparza-Villalpando, Ricardo Martínez-Rider, Miguel Ángel Noyola-Frías, Amaury Pozos-Guillén

“…Results. Male gender, body mass index (BMI), the relation to the lingual and buccal walls, and age were determinants for predicting postoperative swelling and for exerting a significant influence (P<0.05). …”
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