Correlation Of Psychosomatic Factors And Personality Traits With The Severity Of Hidradenitis Suppurativa by Konstantinos Kontoangelos, Foteini Dionysia Foulou, Sofia Tsiori, Charalabos Papageorgiou, Alexander Stratigos, Aikaterini I Liakou

“…However, there were statistically significant associations with demographic factors, such as being female or not being in a relationship, the patient’s body mass index, the locus of the skin lesion, a history of hospitalization, comorbidities, psychiatric history, and pain with psychopathological manifestations and personality. …”
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Effectiveness of Systematic Health Education Model for Type 2 Diabetes Patients by Yongwen Zhang, Lanfang Chu

“…The main outcome measures were glycated hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c), blood pressure, body mass index (BMI), and lipids during the 2-year follow-up. …”
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The Effect of Cesarean Delivery Skin Incision Approach in Morbidly Obese Women on the Rate of Classical Hysterotomy by Brian E. Brocato, Edwin M. Thorpe, Luis M. Gomez, Jim Y. Wan, Giancarlo Mari

“…To assess the risk of classical hysterotomy and surgical morbidity among women with a body mass index (BMI) greater than 40 kg/m2 who underwent a supraumbilical incision at the time of cesarean delivery. …”
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Mastalgia Assesment and Hormonal Correlations in Patients with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome by Emel Kıyak Çağlayan, Levent Seçkin, Ayşe Yeşim Göçmen, Aylin Okur, Ergin Arslan, Halil İbrahim Serin, Kasım Çağlayan, Yaprak Engin Üstün

“…Age of the patients were noted, complaints of mastalgia were questioned and hormonal parameters (Follicle-Stimulating Hormone (FSH), Luteinizing Hormone (LH), Estradiol (E2), Testosterone, Dehydroepiandrosterone Sulphate (DHEAS), Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone (TSH), Body Mass Index (BMI)) were recorded. RESULTS: Frequency of mastalgia was found as 24.4% in PCOS group and 33.3% in control group and there is no statistical difference (p>0.05). …”
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Diabetes mellitus risk in post-myocardial infarction patients: FINDRISC versus self-assessment—a cross sectional study by Karianne Nölken, Jakob Linseisen, Philip Raake, Christine Meisinger, Timo Schmitz

“…A total of 466 participants completed the questionnaire, which collected information on age, sex, body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, physical activity, eating habits, use of antihypertensive medication, previous hyperglycemia, and family history of diabetes. …”
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Intraligamentous Hematoma of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament by Yasuaki Tamaki, Daisuke Hamada, Tadashi Mitsuhashi, Tokio Kasai, Takuya Mishiro, Takahiko Tsutsui, Kenichiro Kita, Koichi Sairyo

“…A 20-year-old man (height 173 cm, weight 62.9 kg, body mass index 21) with no significant past medical history developed progressively worsening pain and limitation of range of motion in the left knee due to minor trauma. …”
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Four Weeks of Inspiratory Muscle Training Improves Self-Paced Walking Performance in Overweight and Obese Adults: A Randomised Controlled Trial by A. M. Edwards, G. P. Maguire, D. Graham, V. Boland, G. Richardson

“…A positive association was observed between the change (%) of performance gain in the 6-minute walking test and body mass index (𝑟=0.736; 𝑃<0.05) for EXP. Conclusion. …”
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Sex-Based Variations in Hemato-Physiological Characteristics of Patients with Major Depressive Disorder: Clinical and Socioeconomic Insights by Basim A. Abd, Hayder Abdul-Amir Makki Al-Hindy, Samer Raheem Obaid

“…Materials and Methods: The study collected basic demographic characteristics, including age, leukocyte counts, body mass index (BMI), hemoglobin (Hb) blood values, and inflammatory marker “C-reactive protein” (CRP). …”
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Obesity, Metabolic Health, and Diabetic Complications in People With Type 1 Diabetes by Yuanjie Mao, Jen‐Tzer Gau, Ning Jiang

“…The participants (n = 1127) were then divided into four groups based on time‐weighted mean body mass index and mean eGDR: metabolically healthy non‐obesity (MHN, n = 874), metabolically unhealthy non‐obesity (MUN, n = 66), MHO (n = 146) and metabolically unhealthy obesity (MUO, n = 41). …”
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Comparison of Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy and Intragastric Balloon Procedures by Fatih Türkoğlu, Serdar Yormaz

“…Demographic characteristics, body mass index, and comorbidities were recorded. Furthermore, the quality of life questionnaires that the participants completed before the treatment procedures and one year after the treatment were analyzed. p<0.05 value was considered statistically significant. …”
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Mental health status and the quality of life of infertile women receiving fertility treatment in Bangladesh: A cross-sectional study. by A B M Nahid Hasan, Azaz Bin Sharif, Ishrat Jahan, Mosammat Rashida Begum

“…In contrast, age, occupation, and Body Mass Index (BMI) were the significant predictors for the Physical Component Summary (PCS-12). …”
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Effects of Skipping Rope Training and Running on Cardiovascular Risk Indicators in Overweight and Obese Girls by Roya Gharaeinejad, Amir Hossein Haghighi, Roya Askari, Hadi Shahrabadi

“…Results: There was no significant difference between the two groups of SRT and RT in the indices (P>0.05); however, body weight (-5.13%), body mass index (BMI) (-8.16%), maximum oxygen uptake (VO2max; 18.18%), triglyceride (-27.45%) and apolipoprotein A1 (apoA1; 2.53%) had a significant improvement in the SRT group compared to the control group (P<0.05). …”
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Erosive Esophagitis in the Obese: The Effect of Ethnicity and Gender on Its Association by Albin Abraham, Seth Lipka, Rabab Hajar, Bhuma Krishnamachari, Ravi Virdi, Bobby Jacob, Prakash Viswanathan, Paul Mustacchia

“…The study sample included 2251 patients who underwent esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD). The effects of body mass index (BMI) on ErE were assessed by gender and in different ethnic groups. …”
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Assessing the Fiscal Burden of Overweight and Obesity in Japan through Application of a Public Economic Framework by Ataru Igarashi, Cillian Copeland, Nikos Kotsopoulos, Riku Ota, Silvia Capucci, Daisuke Adachi

“…**Methods:** The fiscal burden of OAO was estimated using an age-specific prevalence model, which tracked the Japanese population across different body mass index (BMI) categories. The model was populated with fiscal data for Japan, including employment activity and government spending, to calculate tax revenue and transfer costs. …”
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Blood Pressure Exploration in the November 27th Health Area Population from Marianao Municipality by Moura Revueltas Aguero, Yamilé Valdés González, Silvia Serra Larín, Carlos Barceló Pérez, Juan Carlos Ramírez Sotolongo, Ramón Suárez Medina

“…Personalized interviews, physical examination with measurements of blood pressure, weight and height were carried out, and the body mass index was calculated. The data were processed with the statistical program SPSS 15.0. …”
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The Impact of Chronic Low-Back Pain on Quality of Life among Samples of Iraqi Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study by Nadia Ayad Mohammed Jawad, Mohammad Hadi Alosami, Zainab Fadhil Mahdi

“…The individuals under study had a mean body mass index (BMI) of 28.61 kg/m2. Nearly 12% of them were current smokers, and 46.0% were housewives. …”
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Association of body roundness index with cardiovascular disease in patients with cardiometabolic syndrome: a cross-sectional study based on NHANES 2009-2018 by Xiaohua He, Jingling Zhu, Wenfei Liang, Xiuling Yang, Weimin Ning, Zhan Zhao, Jingyi Chen, Qiuxing He

“…Compared to the traditional anthropometric predictors represented by body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC), body roundness index (BRI) appears to provide a more accurate reflection of the abdominal fat distribution associated with metabolic diseases. …”
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Plasma Periostin Levels Are Increased in Chinese Subjects with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes and Are Positively Correlated with Glucose and Lipid Parameters by Yuanyuan Luo, Hua Qu, Hang Wang, Huili Wei, Jing Wu, Yang Duan, Dan Liu, Huacong Deng

“…Correlation analysis showed that plasma periostin levels were positively correlated with weight, waist circumference (WC), body mass index (BMI), waist-hip ratio (WHR), fasting plasma glucose (FPG), 2 h postchallenge plasma glucose (2 h PG), glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c), triglyceride (TG), total cholesterol (TC), fasting insulin (FINS), homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR), TNF-α, and IL-6 (P<0.05 or 0.001) and negatively correlated with high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) (P<0.001). …”
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Assessment of Dynamic Balance, Muscle Strength and Pain in Young Women with Generalized Joint Hypermobility by Rosita Mikalauskaitė, Algė Daunoravičienė, Ernesta Aukštuolytė – Bačienė, Vilma Tamulionytė, Erenesta Gurskienė

“…Participants: Twenty-fve young females (age: 22(18–28; 21,16) years; body mass index: (23, 19,2–24, 23,2) kg/m²) participated in this study. …”
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Prevalence of Fracture Risk Factors in Postmenopausal Women Enrolled in the POSSIBLE US Treatment Cohort by Nicole Yurgin, Sally Wade, Sacha Satram-Hoang, David Macarios, Marc Hochberg

“…RFs assessed at study entry were age >70 years; fracture since age 50; minimum T-score (hip/spine) ≤−2.5 at diagnosis; body mass index <18.5 kg/m2; rheumatoid arthritis; parental history of hip fracture; current smoking; and recent oral glucocorticoid use. …”
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