Tanaka, Kenichi A Alejo, Diane Ghoreishi, Mehrdad Salenger, Rawn Fonner, Clifford Ad, Niv Whitman, Glenn Taylor, Bradley S Mazzeffi, Michael A
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Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia
The study aims were to evaluate current blood transfusion practice in cardiac surgical patients and to explore associations between preoperative anemia, body mass index (BMI), red blood cell (RBC) mass, and allogeneic transfusion. Multicenter retrospective study. Academic and non-academic centers. After Institutional Review Board approval, 26,499 p...
Verhaegen, Jeroen C F Wei, Roger Kim, Paul Beaulé, Paul E Corten, Kristoff Grammatopoulos, George
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The Journal of arthroplasty
Obesity is associated with component malpositioning and increased revision risk after total hip arthroplasty (THA). With anterior approaches (AAs) becoming increasingly popular, the goal of this study was to assess whether clinical outcome post-AA-THA is affected by body mass index (BMI). This multicenter, multisurgeon, consecutive case series used...
Segal, David Ziv, Adi Meisman, Andrea Fry, Jordan Altaye, Mekibib Gordon, Catherine M
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Clinical pediatrics
Adolescents with overweight/obesity are at risk for vitamin D insufficiency and deficiency. Both overweight/obesity and vitamin D insufficiency/deficiency may predispose to fractures. We enrolled 103 participants (53.3% females, 15.9 ± 2.2 years) in a retrospective case-control study to determine whether an association exists between fractures and ...
Cho, Hyun Jeong Song, Sihan Kim, Zisun Youn, Hyun Jo Cho, Jihyoung Min, Jun Won Kim, Yoo Seok Choi, Sang-Woon Lee, Jung Eun
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Asia-Pacific journal of clinical oncology
This study examined the associations of body mass index (BMI) and weight change with inflammatory markers among breast cancer survivors in Korea. A total of 495 women were included who had been diagnosed with primary breast cancer and survived for at least 6 months since the surgery. Information on the body weight and height of the participants was...
Yang, Guoyi Schooling, C Mary
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The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism
Statins and possibly other lipid modifiers increase type 2 diabetes risk and body mass index (BMI). However, to what extent BMI mediates the diabetogenic effects of lipid modifiers remains unclear. We used Mendelian randomization (MR) to investigate the effects of commonly used lipid modifiers on type 2 diabetes risk and glycemic traits, and any me...
Nimkarn, Norrarath Sewarit, Anyamanee Pirojsakul, Kwanchai Paksi, Witchuri Chantarogh, Songkiat Saisawat, Pawaree Tangnararatchakit, Kanchana
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
Background Waist-to-height-ratio (WHtR) has been proposed as another indicator for cardiometabolic risk factors including hypertension. Normally, hypertension can be diagnosed in the office setting by detecting high blood pressure for three occasions. However, patients with high office blood pressure may not exhibit high blood pressure outside the ...
Liu, Shuhua Song, Bing Liu, Dehong Zheng, Chenmin Wu, Xiumei Wei, Zhaolian Chen, Xianxia
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Frontiers in Endocrinology
Objective To test the hypothesis that obese primiparous women with an unfavorable cervix in delayed pregnancy may experience a worse induction of labor. Study design In total, 467 primiparas with poor cervical condition and delayed pregnancy (gestational age [GA]: >40weeks) were divided into an obese primiparas group (body mass index [BMI] >30kg/m2...
Li, Wei Wang, Zhenwei Li, Min Xie, Jing Gong, Jing Liu, Naifeng
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
Background The association between a body shape index (ABSI) and abdominal aortic calcification (AAC) is still unclear, so we tried to prove the association between ABSI and AAC in the general population in this cross-sectional study. Materials and methods After excluding participants with missing data on height, weight, waist circumference (WC), a...
Fang, Wenjing Zhu, Hongfen Li, Shuai Ding, Haoxi Bi, Rutian
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Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Nature reserves are among the most bio-diverse regions worldwide, and rapid and accurate identification is a requisite for their management. Based on the multi-temporal Sentinel-2 dataset, this study presents three multi-temporal modified vegetation indices (the multi-temporal modified normalized difference Quercus wutaishanica index (MTM-NDQI), th...
Mohammed, Bekri Belachew, Tefera Kedir, Shemsu Abate, Kalkidan Hassen
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Frontiers in Nutrition
Background Governments and developmental organizations are encouraged to devote adequate resources to the establishment of free school meals to low-income children in developing countries. In Ethiopia, the school feeding program (SFP) is implemented in a few regions including the capital, Addis Ababa. However, the nutritional benefit of the program...
