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Contributions of depression and body mass index to body image [PDF]
Journal of Psychiatric Research, 2018 Depression and body mass index (BMI) are known to be associated with body image, however, their independent or joint effects on body image in adults are largely unknown. Therefore, we studied associations of depression diagnosis, severity, and BMI with perceptual body size (PBS) and body image dissatisfaction (BID).
Nadine P.G. Paans +4 more
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Body mass index evaluation in hypertensive women [PDF]
Revista Brasileira em Promoção da Saúde, 2003 Hypertension prevalence is approximately three times higher in obese people. This study analyzed the Body Mass Index (BMI) in 200 hypertensive women in follow up treatment in a public hypertension center in the city of Fortaleza-CE, Brazil.
Raimunda Magalhães da Silva +2 more
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Waist circumference adjusted for body mass index and intra-abdominal fat mass. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 BackgroundThe association between waist circumference (WC) and mortality is particularly strong and direct when adjusted for body mass index (BMI). One conceivable explanation for this association is that WC adjusted for BMI is a better predictor of the ...
Tina Landsvig Berentzen +13 more
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Body mass index - a physics perspective [PDF]
arXiv, 2011 Almost two centuries ago Adolphe Quetelet came up with an index to characterize man which is frequently used today to make predictions about health status. We show that this so called body mass index is directly related to the ratio between the physical quantities metabolic rate and heat loss.
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PLoS ONE, 2018 Background and aims Body composition assessment is often used in clinical practice for nutritional evaluation and monitoring. The standard method, dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA), is hardly feasible in routine clinical practice contrary to ...
N. Achamrah +8 more
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Association of dietary antioxidant index with body mass index in adolescents
Obesity Science & Practice, 2023 Background Dietary antioxidants may decrease body fat through reduction of oxidative stress. This study aimed to examine the association between dietary antioxidant index (DAI) and body mass index (BMI) in adolescent boys. Methods In this cross‐sectional
Bahareh Aminnejad +7 more
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Longitudinal analysis of risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in adulthood [PDF]
, 2019 Background & Aims We aimed to determine how childhood body mass index and metabolic health, along with the change in body mass index between childhood and adulthood, determine the risk of adult non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
Brown, Emily +11 more
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Predicting physiological developments from human gait using smartphone sensor data [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 Coronary artery disease, heart failure, angina pectoris and diabetes are among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality over the globe. Susceptibility to such disorders is compounded by changing lifestyles, poor dietary routines, aging and obesity.
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Flexible Instrumental Variable Models With Bayesian Additive Regression Trees [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Methods utilizing instrumental variables have been a fundamental statistical approach to estimation in the presence of unmeasured confounding, usually occurring in non-randomized observational data common to fields such as economics and public health.
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TRUNK BODY MASS INDEX: A NEW REFERENCE FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF BODY MASS DISTRIBUTION
ABCD: Arquivos Brasileiros de Cirurgia Digestiva, 2018 Background: Body mass index (BMI) has some limitations for nutritional diagnosis since it does not represent an accurate measure of body fat and it is unable to identify predominant fat distribution.
Mariane TAKESIAN +6 more
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