Majeed, Mustafa Wiberg, Akira Ng, Michael Holmes, Michael V Furniss, Dominic
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The Journal of hand surgery, European volume
We performed Mendelian randomization analyses of body mass index and waist-hip ratio adjusted for body mass index in Dupuytren's disease using summary statistics from genome-wide association study meta-analyses. We found that adiposity is causally protective against Dupuytren's disease, with the inverse-variance weighted Mendelian randomization ana...
Lawless, Meg Shriver, Lenka H Hubbs-Tait, Laura Topham, Glade L Swindle, Taren Harrist, Amanda W
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Nutrients
The nature of the association between dietary restraint and weight has been examined in adult samples, but much less is known about this relationship among children. The current study examined the transactional associations among restrained eating behavior and weight among boys and girls during middle childhood. Data for this study came from 263 ch...
Sola-Rodríguez, Sergio Vargas-Hitos, José Antonio Gavilán-Carrera, Blanca Rosales-Castillo, Antonio Sabio, José Mario Hernández-Martínez, Alba Martínez-Rosales, Elena Ortego-Centeno, Norberto Soriano-Maldonado, Alberto
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International journal of environmental research and public health
This study aimed to examine the association of relative handgrip strength (rHGS) with cardiometabolic disease risk factors in women with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Seventy-seven women with SLE (mean age 43.2, SD 13.8) and clinical stability during the previous six months were included. Handgrip strength was assessed with a digital dynamome...
Huang, Hsiu-Ling Kung, Chuan-Yu Wang, Shun-Mu Kung, Pei-Tseng Lin, Yen-Hsiung Chiu, Li-Ting Tsai, Wen-Chen
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International journal of environmental research and public health
The diabetes patients enrolled in the pay-for-performance (P4P) program demonstrate reduced risk of death. Body mass index (BMI) is a risk factor of all-cause death. This study investigates the effects of BMI and P4P on the risk of death in type 2 diabetes patients. This is a retrospective cohort study. The study population includes the 3-wave Nati...
Francisco, Inês Caramelo, Francisco Fernandes, Maria Helena Vale, Francisco
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International journal of environmental research and public health
(1) Background: The etiology of orofacial cleft (OC) is not completely known but several genetic and environmental risk factors have been identified. Moreover, a knowledge gap still persists regarding neonatal characteristics. This study evaluated the effect of parental age and mothers' body mass index on the risk of having an OC child, in a matche...
Toçi, Ervin Burazeri, Genc Kamberi, Haxhi Toçi, Dorina Roshi, Enver Jerliu, Naim Bregu, Arjan Brand, Helmut
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Journal of public health (Oxford, England)
The relationship of health literacy (HL) with objective measures including anthropometric measurements remains an under-researched topic to date. To assess the association between body mass index (BMI) and HL among Albanian adults. A cross-sectional study was conducted in Tirana, Albania, in 2012-2014 including a population-based sample of 1154 ind...
Franzoi, Maria Alice; Eiger, Daniel; Ameye, Lieveke; 32428; Ponde, Noam; Caparica, Rafael; De Angelis, Claudia; Brandão, Mariana; Desmedt, Christine; 123790; Di Cosimo, Serena; Kotecki, Nuria;
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BACKGROUND: There are limited data regarding the impact of body mass index (BMI) on outcomes in advanced breast cancer, especially in patients treated with endocrine therapy (ET) + cyclin-dependent kinase 4/6 inhibitors. METHODS: A pooled analysis of individual patient-level data from MONARCH 2 and 3 trials was performed. Patients were classified a...
Shalaby, Hosam Abdelgawad, Mohamed Omar Md, Mahmoud Zora Md, Ghassan Alawwad, Saad Alameer, Ehab Youssef, Mohanad Attia, Abdallah S Buell, Joseph Grace, Lee
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The American surgeon
Minimally invasive adrenalectomy is a challenging procedure in obese patients. Few recent studies have advocated against robot-assisted adrenalectomy, particularly in obese patients. This study aims to compare operative outcomes between the robotic and laparoscopic adrenalectomy, particularly in obese patients. A retrospective analysis was performe...
Lundgren, Oskar Henriksson, Pontus Delisle Nyström, Christine Silfvernagel, Kristin Löf, Marie
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Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992)
We investigated psychological strengths and difficulties in a Swedish population of preschool children and analysed how these behavioural variables were related to body composition, cardiorespiratory fitness, physical activity levels, sedentary behaviour and diet. Three hundred and fifteen boys and girls were recruited during 2014-2015. Body compos...
Schnall, Rebecca Porras, Tiffany Musanti, Rita Adams Tufts, Kimberly Sefcik, Elizabeth Hamilton, Mary Jane Dawson-Rose, Carol Portillo, Carmen Philips, J Craig Chaiphibalsarisdi, Puangtip
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AIDS care
Social media tools have been touted as an approach to bring more democratic communication to health care. We conducted a multi-site cross-sectional study among persons living with HIV (PLWH) to desrcibe technology use among PLWH in the US and the association between social media use and body-mass index (BMI). Our primary predictor variable was soci...
