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The Adjusted Measure of Body Mass Index and its Impact on Health [PDF]

The aim of this paper is to examine the impact of socio-economic status (SES) on the Body Mass Index (BMI), a formula based on the ratio of height to weight, linked to health, using a four-year (1991, 1993, 1997 and 2000) panel data set which comes from ...
Qiu, Tian
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Deriving BMI-referenced, sex-specific fat mass index cutoff values in older Saudi adults: a cross-sectional secondary analysis

Frontiers in Nutrition
Background/objectivesAge-related changes in body composition may reduce the ability of body mass index (BMI) to accurately reflect adiposity in older adults.
Maram Alsadi, Mahmoud M. A. Abulmeaty, Aljazi Bin Zarah, Adel Alhamdan   +3 more
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Determinants of Body Mass Index in Early Systemic Sclerosis: Implications for Nutritional Risk Stratification

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Gastrointestinal (GI) involvement can lead to malnutrition in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc). Body mass index (BMI) remains the most widely used marker to screen nutritional status. We aimed to identify predictors of lower BMI in patients with SSc. Methods Patients with SSc from a prospective US cohort meeting 2013 American College of
Ali Y. Ayla, Meng Zhang, Bingrui Chen, Claudia Pedroza, Brian Skaug, Maureen Mayes, Michael Hughes, Shervin Assassi, Zsuzsanna H. McMahan   +8 more
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Selected participant characteristics according to body mass index (BMI).

, 2013
Selected participant characteristics according to body mass index (BMI).
Yong Zhou (23772), Xiuhua Guo (311454), Shouling Wu (388386), Jianwei Wu (388384), Yanxia Luo (311452), Anxin Wang (101844), Xingquan Zhao (283761)   +6 more
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Longitudinal Changes in Adiposity After a Youth Sport‐Related Knee Injury: Informing Posttraumatic Osteoarthritis Prevention

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Youth who experience a sport‐related knee injury have elevated odds of becoming overweight or developing obesity in 3 to 10 years, compounding their risk for posttraumatic osteoarthritis (PTOA). To inform prevention strategies, this study compared patterns of adiposity change between youth with a sport‐related knee injury and uninjured youth ...
Justin M. Losciale, Nuria E. J. Jansen, Christina Y. Le, Leo Lu, Hui Xie, Marienke van Middelkoop, Jackie L. Whittaker   +6 more
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Body mass index : considerations for practitioners [PDF]

Body mass index (BMI) is a measure of weight adjusted for height, calculated as weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters (kg/m2). Although BMI is often considered an indicator of body fatness, it is a surrogate measure of body fat ...

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Clinician and Patient Factors Associated With Long‐Term Glucocorticoid Use in People With Rheumatoid Arthritis Receiving Advanced Therapies

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Despite guideline recommendations, long‐term glucocorticoid (GC) use is common in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We conducted a clinician survey nested within a large registry to identify patient and clinician factors associated with GC use. Methods Clinicians contributing patients to the CorEvitas Rheumatoid Arthritis Registry were surveyed ...
Michael D. George, George Reed, Matthew D. Kearney, Peter F. Cronholm, Kevin Kane, Jeffrey R. Curtis, Dimitrios A. Pappas, Joel M. Kremer   +7 more
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Age and body mass index summary (BMI) statistics of cohort.

, 2017
Age and body mass index summary (BMI) statistics of cohort.
Matteo Milanesi (3798250), Stefan Neubauer (88474), Micheal Gyngell (3798256), Paul M. Matthews (108861), Rajarshi Banerjee (2290225), E. Louise Thomas (139111), Steve Garratt (3135105), Henry R. Wilman (2837168), Amy Herlihy (3798259), Jimmy D. Bell (111613), Matt Kelly (3798253)   +10 more
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Short‐Term Response to Biologic Therapy in Psoriatic Arthritis Is Not Influenced by Disease Duration at Initiation of Therapy

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective We aimed to determine whether the short‐term response to biologics in biologic‐naive psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is better in patients initiating biologic treatment early in the disease course. Methods Patients with PsA who started on biologic therapy from the year 2000 to 2025 were included for analysis.
Sung Min Cho, Shangyi Gao, Daniel Pereira, Richard J. Cook, Dafna D. Gladman   +4 more
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Body mass index (BMI) in different stages of diabetic retinopathy.

, 2015
Body mass index (BMI) in different stages of diabetic retinopathy.
Astrid Schneider (610523), Norbert Pfeiffer (26543), Alireza Mirshahi (440263), Tunde Peto (295260), Philipp Raum (754896), Julia Lamparter (383451), Philipp S. Wild (112751), René Hoehn (440265), Andreas Schulz (129094), Katharina A. Ponto (754897)   +9 more
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