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Radiographic and safety details of vertebral body stenting : results from a multicenter chart review [PDF]
, 2013 Background: Up to one third of BKP treated cases shows no appreciable height restoration due to loss of both restored height and kyphotic realignment after balloon deflation.
Benneker, Lorin Michael +11 more
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The sitting-height index of build, (body mass)/(sitting height)³, as an improvement on the body mass index for children, adolescents and young adults [PDF]
, 2018 The body mass index (BMI) is unsatisfactory in being affected by both relative leg length and height, and, for use with children and adolescents, therefore needs to be interpreted in relation to age. The sitting-height index of build (body mass)/(sitting
Burton, Richard
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Deutsches Ärzteblatt international, 2010 In their large cohort study, the authors have shown unequivocally that abdominal obesity as measured by waist circumference predicts the risk of diabetes beyond the body mass index (BMI). From this they conclude that to determine the diabetes risk, waist circumference should always be included with fixed threshold values.
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Breastfeeding shows a protective trend toward adolescents with higher abdominal adiposity [PDF]
, 2014 Objective: The question of whether breastfeeding has a protective effect against the development of overweight or obesity later in life remains controversial, especially during adolescence.
De Henauw, Stefaan +12 more
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Is Arterial Stiffness Related to Body Height? [PDF]
Hypertension, 2010 To the Editor: Experts1 consider aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV) as the supreme index of arterial stiffness, mainly because it is an independent predictor of cardiovascular complications.2 However, the noninvasive assessment of PWV is critically dependent on the measurement of the travel distance of the arterial pulse wave.3 Variability between ...
Yan Li +4 more
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bioRxiv, 2018 Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) stand as powerful experimental designs for identifying DNA variants associated with complex traits and diseases. In the past decade, both the number of such studies and their sample sizes have increased dramatically.
L. Yengo +9 more
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Spatial Correlates of U.S. Heights and BMIs, 2002 [PDF]
, 2004 Aiming to further explore possible underlying causes for the recent stagnation in American heights, this paper describes the result of analysis of the commercial U.S. Sizing Survey.
Komlos, John, Lauderdale, Benjamin E.
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Do the short die young? Evidence from a large sample of deceased Polish adults
Anthropological Review, 2023 Body height is associated with various socioeconomic and health-related outcomes. Despite numerous studies, the relationship between stature and longevity remains uncertain.
Piotr Paweł Chmielewski +2 more
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Secular changes in body height predict global rates of caesarean section
Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2019 The massive global variation in caesarean-section (C-section) rate is usually attributed to socio-economic, medical and cultural heterogeneity. Here, we show that a third of the global variance in current national C-section rate can be explained by the ...
Eva Zaffarini, P. Mitteroecker
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Estimating body composition in adolescent sprint athletes : comparison of different methods in a 3 years longitudinal design [PDF]
, 2015 A recommended field method to assess body composition in adolescent sprint athletes is currently lacking. Existing methods developed for non-athletic adolescents were not longitudinally validated and do not take maturation status into account.
A Pietrobelli +22 more
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