Central obesity in low BMI as a risk factor for COVID-19 severity in South Indians.
Shalini Hegde +7 more
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Objective Antinuclear antibodies (ANAs) are present at high titers in 2% of the general population, but their clinical significance in individuals without an autoimmune (AI) disease is not known. We tested the hypothesis that the presence of a high ANA titer in non‐AI conditions is associated with disease.
Matthew Chung +7 more
wiley +1 more source
Use of International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision Codes for Obesity: Trends in the United States from an Electronic Health Record-Derived Database. [PDF]
Obesity is a potentially modifiable risk factor for many diseases, and a better understanding of its impact on health care utilization, costs, and medical outcomes is needed.
Crawford, Albert +4 more
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Objective Body mass index (BMI), glomerular filtration rate (GFR), and pretreatment urate levels have been reported to influence the urate‐lowering response to allopurinol. We investigated whether the fractional excretion of uric acid (FEUA) also modulates this response and relates to oxypurinol concentrations.
Pascal Richette +13 more
wiley +1 more source
Fingerprints of brain disease: connectome identifiability in Alzheimer’s disease
Functional connectivity patterns in the human brain, like the friction ridges of a fingerprint, can uniquely identify individuals. Does this “brain fingerprint” remain distinct even during Alzheimer’s disease (AD)?
Sara Stampacchia +14 more
doaj +1 more source
What is the best measure of adiposity change in growing children: BMI, BMI %, BMI z-score or BMI centile? (vol 59, pg 419, 2005) [PDF]
Cole, TJ +3 more
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Fuzzy logic as a decision-making support system for the indication of bariatric surgery based on an index (OBESINDEX) generated by the association between body fat and body mass index [PDF]
Background: A Fuzzy Obesity Index (OBESINDEX) for use as an alternative in bariatric surgery indication (BSI) is presented. The search for a more accurate method to evaluate obesity and to indicate a better treatment is important in the world health ...
Glicia C. Azevedo +6 more
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Objectives Pulmonary fibrosis (PF) is a severe extra‐articular manifestation of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The study aimed to externally validate a genetic risk score (GRS) and a combined risk score for predicting the risk of RA‐associated PF in an independent cohort of early‐RA patients. Methods This study utilized an inception cohort of 1118 patients
Mikael Brink +3 more
wiley +1 more source
Best phase-forecasting method for brain-state dependent stimulation: A grid-search approach
Claudia Bigoni +2 more
doaj +1 more source
Relationship between adiposity and admixture in African-American and Hispanic-American women. [PDF]
ObjectiveThe objective of this study was to investigate whether differences in admixture in African-American (AFA) and Hispanic-American (HA) adult women are associated with adiposity and adipose distribution.DesignThe proportion of European, sub-Saharan
Allison, M +10 more
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