Association between Helicobacter pylori Infection and Risk of Osteoporosis in Elderly Taiwanese Women with Upper Gastrointestinal Diseases: A Retrospective Patient Record Review by Shih-Chun Lin, Malcolm Koo, Kun-Wei Tsai

“…Multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed that osteoporosis was significantly associated with H. pylori infection (adjusted odds ratio = 2.03, 95% confidence interval = 1.14–3.62) after adjusting for age group, body mass index group, and use of proton pump inhibitor. …”
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Assessment of Nutritional Status among the School-going Adolescents in a Rural Community of Bankura District, West Bengal: A Cross-sectional Study by Eashin Gazi, Amit Kumar Samanta, Arup Jyoti Rout, Tushar Kanti Saha

“…About one-third (32.8%) of adolescent students were thin, as per body mass index for age Z-score category. Normal nutritional status was found in the majority of students (63.8%), but overweight and obesity were only 3.4% amongst the adolescent students. …”
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Evaluating Bone Health in Egyptian Children with Forearm Fractures: A Case Control Study by Abeer El-Sakka, Cristina Penon, Adham Hegazy, Salwa Elbatrawy, Amr Gobashy, Alvaro Moreira

“…Cases had higher Body Mass Index than Controls, p=0.01. Children in the Cases group had lower mean serum calcium values 8.3±1.4 compared to 9.3±1.1 in Controls (p=0.01). …”
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Abnormal Uterine Bleeding Among Rural Adolescent Schoolgirls: A Cross-Sectional Study by Yasir Salih, Ghaday S. Almutairi, Norah H. Alhumaidi, Nadiah Alhabardi, Ishag Adam

“…Weight and height were measured, body mass index (BMI) was calculated, and hemoglobin levels were determined. …”
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Correlation between Colon Polyps and Metabolic Syndrome and HP Infection Status by Lijuan Huang, Lihong Wu, Qiaohua Qiao, Lizheng Fang

“…Compared with the control group, the polyp group had significant differences in patient gender, body mass index (BMI), waistline, blood pressure, fasting blood glucose level, blood lipid level, and uric acid level (p<0.05), but there were no significant differences in LDL and CEA levels (p>0.05). …”
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Corneal Endothelial Characteristics, Central Corneal Thickness, and Intraocular Pressure in a Population of Chinese Age-Related Cataract Patients by Yingmei Li, Zhentao Fu, Jian Liu, Miao Li, Yuguang Zhang, Xinyi Wu

“…To describe corneal endothelial characteristics, central corneal thickness, and intraocular pressure in a population of Chinese age-related cataract patients and to determine the effects of age, gender, hypertension, and body mass index (BMI). Methods. 1551 eyes were examined preoperatively. …”
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A Case Control Study on Risk Factors Associated with Low Birth Weight Babies in Eastern Nepal by Ravi Kumar Bhaskar, Krishna Kumar Deo, Uttam Neupane, Subhadra Chaudhary Bhaskar, Birendra Kumar Yadav, Hanoon P. Pokharel, Paras Kumar Pokharel

“…However, maternal blood group AB, normal maternal Body Mass Index (BMI), mother’s age of 30 or more years, and starting ANC visit earlier were found to be protective for LBW. …”
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Relationship Between Anemia and Telogen Effluvium in Post-COVID-19 Survivors by Canan Emiroglu, Murat Dicle, Suleyman Gorpelioglu, Cenk Aypak

“…TE was more common in women, those under the average age of this patient group, and those with a body mass index of under 25. Anemia was identified in 80 patients. …”
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Orexitropic Signaling Proteins in Obese Children by Ljiljana Saranac, Bojko Bjelakovic, Hristina Stamenkovic, Borislav Kamenov

“…The mean age of the study group was 10.81 ± 3.69 years and the mean puberty stage was 2.21. The mean body mass index (BMI) was 32.80 kg/m2 (range 23.30– 47.02) and the mean overweight 30.73 kg (range 8.00–74.00). …”
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Exploring socio-demographic determinants of obesity in Jordanian women of reproductive age: insights from a nationwide survey by Mahmoud Shaaban Abdelgalil, Sara Hosny El-Farargy, Mohamed Adel Dowidar, Mohamed Abd-ElGawad

“…Result We included 4,339 Jordanian women in our study, of whom 2,189 were classified as obese and 2,150 had a normal body mass index (BMI). Multivariable analysis indicated that increasing age and living in Tafilahwere significantly associated with higher odds of developing obesity (p < 0.05). …”
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Influence of Obesity Parameters on Different Regional Patterns of Lymph Node Metastasis in Papillary Thyroid Cancer by Wan-Xiao Wu, Jia-Wei Feng, Jing Ye, Gao-Feng Qi, Li-Zhao Hong, Jun Hu, Sheng-Yong Liu, Yong Jiang, Zhen Qu

“…We calculated obese parameters, such as body mass index (BMI), body fat percentage (BFP), and body surface area (BSA). …”
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Propensity score matching analysis of valve-sparing versus aortic root replacement in type A aortic dissection patients by Ling Chen, Yichao Pan, Huaijian Zhang, Yi Chen, Chunsheng Wang, Zhihuang Qiu, Heng Lu, Liangwan Chen

“…Multivariable analysis is identifying advanced age, high Body Mass Index (BMI), Marfan syndrome, severe aortic regurgitation, bicuspid aortic valve, increased aortic root diameter, and reduced aortic cross-clamp time (ACC) as significant factors associated with ARR. …”
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Cardiovascular Hyperreactivity and its Association with Cardiovascular Risk Factors by Milagros Lisset León Regal, Mikhail Benet Rodríguez, Yudith Brito Pérez de Corcho, Lázaro Hermes González Otero, José Omar de Armas García, Luciano Miranda Alvarado

“…The variables analyzed were: sex, skin color, age, height, weight, body mass index, waist circumference, triglycerides, cholesterol, HDL cholesterol and fasting blood glucose. …”
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Psychosocial Characteristics and Gestational Weight Change among Overweight, African American Pregnant Women by Kelly C. Allison, Brian H. Wrotniak, Emmanuelle Paré, David B. Sarwer

“…African American women (n=120) with a pregravid body mass index ≥25 kg/m2 completed measures of eating, sleep, and depressed mood between 14 and 24 weeks of gestation. …”
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Clinical Characteristics and Treatment Outcomes in Endogenous Cushing’s Syndrome: A 15-Year Experience from Thailand by Wasita Warachit Parksook, Nitchakarn Laichuthai, Sarat Sunthornyothin

“…Weight gain was the most common presentation. Normal body mass index (BMI), Asian cutoff, was observed in 33% of patients. …”
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Hyperuricemia prevalence and its risk factors in uremic patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis by Meng Zhang, Gaoqiankun Huang, Xiaorong Bao, Qingmei Yang

“…Compared to those in n-HUA group, subjects in HUA group showed lower estimated glomerular filtration rate and blood CO2 level, but higher levels of body mass index, geriatric nutritional risk index, plasma phosphate, potassium, pre-albumin, albumin, serum creatinine (Scr) and urea nitrogen. …”
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Exploring the most important factors related to self-perceived health among older men in Sweden: a cross-sectional study using machine learning by David C Currow, Magnus Per Ekström, Max Olsson

“…Low levels of symptoms, good sleep quality, regular exercise, alcohol consumption and a body mass index between 22 and 28 were associated with better self-perceived health.Conclusions Symptoms are more strongly related to self-perceived health than health conditions, which suggests that the impacts of health conditions are mediated through symptoms, which could be important targets to improve self-perceived health. …”
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Acute Diverticulitis in the Young: The Same Disease in a Different Patient by Adolfo Pisanu, Valentina Vacca, Isabella Reccia, Mauro Podda, Alessandro Uccheddu

“…The rate of recurrent diverticulitis in nonoperated patients was similar. Male gender, body mass index ≥25, and assumption of alcohol were independent risk factors for the occurrence of an acute diverticulitis in the young. …”
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Association of Tobacco Smoking with Physical Fitness of Military Males in Taiwan: The CHIEF Study by Fang-Ying Su, Sheng-Huei Wang, Henry Horng-Shing Lu, Gen-Min Lin

“…A multiple linear analysis adjusting for age, service specialty, body mass index, heart rate, alcohol intake, and training frequency was used to determine the relationship. …”
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Obesity and the Odds of Weight Gain following Androgen Deprivation Therapy for Prostate Cancer by Lior Z. Braunstein, Ming-Hui Chen, Marian Loffredo, Philip W. Kantoff, Anthony V. D'Amico

“…Background. Increasing body mass index (BMI) is associated with increased risk of mortality; however, quantifying weight gain in men undergoing androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for prostate cancer (PC) remains unexplored. …”
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