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Relationship Between Body Height and Dementia [PDF]
The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2005 Structural and functional brain reserves, thought to develop in childhood and adolescence, may be critical in determining the age at onset of cognitive impairment. Body height is affected by childhood conditions that promote growth. The authors examine the relationship of height in midlife and subsequent dementia, Alzheimer disease (AD), and vascular ...
Michal Schnaider, Beeri +5 more
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Looking like a leader–facial shape predicts perceived height and leadership ability [PDF]
, 2013 Judgments of leadership ability from face images predict the outcomes of actual political elections and are correlated with leadership success in the corporate world.
Xiao, Dengke +42 more
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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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Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2022 Introduction The nutritional status of children and adolescents is widely commented on. On the one hand. the number of people with excess body weight is growing. and on the other hand. the problem of malnutrition is becoming more and more visible.
Agnieszka Wasiluk, Jerzy Saczuk
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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.
Rotter, Robert +13 more
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Age-Dependent Association of Height Loss with Incident Fracture Risk in Postmenopausal Korean Women [PDF]
Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2023 Background Height loss is a simple clinical measure associated with increased fracture risk. However, limited data exists on the association between height loss and fracture risk in postmenopausal Korean women.
Chaewon Lee +3 more
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ESTATURA Y PESO CORPORAL. ¿QUÉ INFLUYE MÁS SOBRE LAS CIFRAS DE TENSIÓN ARTERIAL? / Body height and weight. Which one has more influence on blood pressure figures? [PDF]
CorSalud, 2009 Introduction and Objectives: There are many risk factors for the development of high figures of blood pressure and there is no doubt that obesity, and overweight, its precursor, is among of themost studied ones.
Guillermo Alberto Pérez Fernández
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Vietnamese migrants are as tall as they want to be
Human Biology and Public Health, 2021 Background Members of the same social group tent to have the same body height. Migrants tend to adjust in height to their host communities. Objectives Social-Economic-Political-Emotional (SEPE) factors influence growth.
Christiane Scheffler +2 more
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Pathophysiology, 2014 To test the hypothesis that body-resonant radiation may explain the correlation between body height and cancer risk observed in most countries around the world.Data on cancer incidence and body height were collected from different countries and also from different regions within Sweden.
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Height and body proportions in child abuse. [PDF]
Archives of Disease in Childhood, 1992 Abused children are said to retain 'infantile body proportions'. The presenting height, sitting height, and leg length standard deviation scores of 91 victims have been calculated from data derived from a study of local inner city schoolchildren. In the study population 31/91 (34%) were significantly short and all but two of these had relatively ...
Wales, Jkh, Herber, SM, Taitz, LS
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