Adeleye, Olufunmilayo O. Ugwu, Ejiofor T. Gezawa, Ibrahim D. Okpe, Innocent Ezeani, Ignatius Enamino, Marcelina
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BMC Endocrine Disorders
BackgroundDiabetic foot ulcers (DFU) are associated with high morbidity and mortality globally. Mortality in patients hospitalized for DFU in Nigeria is unacceptably high. This study was undertaken to determine factors that predict mortality in patients hospitalized for DFU in Nigeria.MethodsThe current study was part of Multi-centre Evaluation of ...
Alenaini, W Parkinson, JRC McCarthy, JP Goldstone, AP Wilman, HR Banerjee, R Yaghootkar, H Bell, JD Thomas, EL
OBJECTIVE: Differences in the content and distribution of body fat and ectopic lipids may be responsible for ethnic variations in metabolic disease susceptibility. The aim of this study was to examine the ethnic distribution of body fat in two separate UK-based populations. METHODS: Anthropometry and body composition were assessed in two separate U...
Jayasena, CN Sharma, A Abbara, A Rong, L White, CJ Hoskin, SG Khanjani, S Crawford, MJ Ramsay, JW Minhas, S
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BACKGROUND: There are no current pharmacological therapies to improve sperm quality in men with sub-fertility. Reducing the exposure to lifestyle risk factor (LSF) is currently the only intervention for improving sperm quality in men with sub-fertility. No previous study has investigated what proportion of men with sub-fertility are exposed to adve...
Luo, Jin Lee, Raymond YW
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JBMR Plus
Obesity and osteoporotic‐related fractures are two common public health problems, although it is unclear how obesity affects the risk of vertebral fractures. The purpose of this study was to examine the association between different measures of obesity and the risk of vertebral fracture, and to establish the various clinical factors that can predic...
Esposito, L Villasenor, A Cuevas Rodriguez, E Millett, C
Despite the vast literature on the economic gradient of obesity, no study investigates the independent predictive roles of absolute and relative standards of living using a large nationally representative adult sample. This gap limits our ability to discern ‘material’ and ‘psychosocial’ pathways to obesity as well as our understanding of the role p...
Vermeiren, S Beckwée, D Vella-Azzopardi, R Beyer, I Knoop, V Jansen, B Delaere, A Antoine, A Bautmans, I Scafoglieri, A
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Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland)
To date, the accuracy of bio-impedance (BIA) to assess body composition & sarcopenia in persons aged 80 and over remains unclear. We aimed to evaluate the agreement between dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) and BIA equations to determine lean mass, as well as their suitability to identify sarcopenia. 174 community dwelling well-functioning per...
Liu, J Carnero-Montoro, E Van Dongen, J Lent, S Nedeljkovic, I Ligthart, S Tsai, P-C Martin, TC Mandaviya, PR Jansen, R
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Despite existing reports on differential DNA methylation in type 2 diabetes (T2D) and obesity, our understanding of its functional relevance remains limited. Here we show the effect of differential methylation in the early phases of T2D pathology by a blood-based epigenome-wide association study of 4808 non-diabetic Europeans in the discovery phase...
Sakhamuri, Sateesh Lutchmansingh, Fallon Simeon, Donald Conyette, Liane Burney, Peter Seemungal, Terence
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BMC Pulmonary Medicine
BackgroundRelationships between low forced vital capacity (FVC), and morbidity have previously been studied but there are no data available for the Caribbean population. This study assessed the association of low FVC with risk factors, health variables and socioeconomic status in a community-based study of the Trinidad and Tobago population.Methods...
Kristiansen, Hege; Eide, Geir Egil; Brannsether, Bente; Roelants, Mathieu; 6305; Bjerknes, Robert; Juliusson, Petur B; 121291;
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between weight-related anthropometric measures and children's eating habits, physical activity and sedentary lifestyle at a population level. METHODS: Data from the Bergen Growth Study were used to study the association of z-scores of waist circumference (WC), weight-to-height...
Thomas, R Burger, R Hauck, K
The socioeconomic gradient in chronic conditions is clear in the poorest and wealthiest of countries, but extant evidence on this relationship in low- and middle-income countries is inconclusive. We use data gathered between 2008-2012 from a nationally representative sample of over 10,000 South African adults, and objective health measures to analy...
