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Waist Circumference as the Newest Vital Sign: An Evaluation of Abdominal Obesity in the Healthcare Setting

DNP projectIntroduction/Purpose: Body mass index (BMI), which is based on the height and weight of an individual, has traditionally been the sole screening tool to identify obesity in the clinical setting.
Hawkins, Ericka A.
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Age, Socioeconomic Status and Obesity Growth [PDF]

The rapid growth in obesity represents a major public concern. Although body weight tends to increase with age, the evolution of obesity over the lifecycle is not well understood. We use longitudinal data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to
Charles L. Baum II, Christopher J. Ruhm
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Understanding excess body weight: New Zealand Health Survey [PDF]

, 2015
Explores the increase in obesity over a 36 year period to 2013 and investigates the impact of obesity on different birth cohorts. Summary Obesity is New Zealand’s leading modifiable risk factor for health loss.
Hilary Sharpe, Sarah Bradbury
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What Happens After Menopause (WHAM)? A Progress Report of a Prospective Controlled Study of Women After Pre‐Menopausal Risk‐Reducing Bilateral Salpingo‐Oophorectomy

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics &Gynaecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Surgical menopause, the removal of both ovaries prior to natural menopause, may impact short‐and long‐term physical and emotional health. An increasingly common cause of surgical menopause is risk‐reducing salpingo‐oophorectomy (RRSO) in those at high inherited risk of ovarian cancer.
Sarah A. L. Price, Pauline M. Maki, Samar R. El Khoudary, Alison Brand, Rakibul M. Islam, Susan M. Domchek, Hadine Joffe, Gita D. Mishra, Katrina M. Moss, Fiona C. Baker, Sabine Braat, John D. Wark, Martha Hickey   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spontaneous Preterm Birth and Subsequent Cardiovascular Mortality: Linked Registry Cohort Study

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics &Gynaecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Determine the cardiovascular mortality risk in women with a history of spontaneous preterm birth. Design Population‐based cohort study. Setting The Netherlands. Population We used data‐linkage between the National hospital Birth Registry and the National Death Registry.
Sophie M. Welters, Christianne J. M. De Groot, Esmé I. Kamphuis, Anita C. J. Ravelli, Ben Willem Mol, Marjon A. de Boer   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Long‐Term Effects of Pelvic Floor Muscle Training Combined With Electrical Stimulation Biofeedback Among Women With Symptomatic Pelvic Organ Prolapse: A Randomised Controlled Trial

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics &Gynaecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To determine whether adding electrical stimulation (ES) biofeedback to supervised pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) provides additional long‐term benefit in prolapse anatomy among women with symptomatic pelvic organ prolapse (POP). Design Randomised controlled trial. Setting A tertiary hospital in Beijing, China.
Min Li, Yuhan Lyu, Pingping Li, Yaxin Liang, Tianzi Gai, Qiubo Lyu, Shuai Huang, Lin Liang, Yue Yu, Xinyue Zhang   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cardiometabolic Treatment Gap in Routine Psychiatric Care: A Cross‐Sectional Study of 1553 Patients

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background People with severe mental illness (SMI) have elevated cardiometabolic morbidity and mortality, with similar concerns increasingly reported in other psychiatric conditions including anxiety disorders and ADHD. Somatic conditions are often underdiagnosed and pharmacologically undermanaged in this population.
Vincent Achour, Melanie Faugere, Laurent Boyer, Christophe Lançon, Theo Korchia   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Associations of cannabis use, tobacco use and co‐use with brain volume: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims Cannabis is the most widely used illicit drug worldwide and is often co‐used with tobacco, the leading cause of preventable death. Although cannabis and tobacco have distinct neurobiological actions, their associations with brain volumes are unclear.
Katherine Sawyer, Tom P. Freeman, Martine Skumlien, Esther Walton, Thomas Lancaster, Jorien L. Treur, Valentina Lorenzetti, Anna K. M. Blackwell, Chloe Burke, Richie J. Carr, Constantinos Constantinides, Maisie Cox, Sarah Dance, Shadi Daryan, Sorcha Hamilton, Tom Jenkins, Gemma M. J. Taylor   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Determinants of Immunoglobulin‐G N‐Glycan Patterns in the Aging General Population

Allergy, EarlyView.
The effect of demographic and lifestyle factors on IgG N‐glycosylation, which determines IgG's inflammatory response, remains poorly characterized. Aging, higher BMI, female sex, smoking, and heavy alcohol consumption are determinants of IgG N‐glycome patterns, which are indicative of inflammation. Women exhibit a distinct change in IgG N‐glycosylation
Samantha Leonard, Ralph Heijmans, Virgil A. S. H. Dalm, Silvan Licher, Jan Nouta, Steinar Gijze, David Falck, P. Martin van Hagen, Robin Peeters, Manfred Wuhrer, Layal Chaker   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multifactorial determinants of male genital measurements: Correlations of stretched penile length and anogenital distance with anthropometric parameters

Andrology, EarlyView.
Abstract Background The stretched penile length is recognized as the most reliable measure of true penile size, this fact is not widely acknowledged, and societal myths often associate penile length with other anthropometric measurements. While markers of prenatal androgen exposure, such as anogenital distance and the second‐to‐fourth digit ratio (2D ...
Coşkun Kaya, Mehmet Erhan Aydın, Aykut Aykaç, Sevda Sungur, Murat Dursun, Ateş Kadıoğlu   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source