TIPPING THE SCALE: BODY MASS INDEX AS A PREDICTOR OF EMBRYONIC MITOCHONDRIAL DNA CONTENT

Body Mass Index as a Predictor of Advanced Colorectal Neoplasia

BACKGROUND Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third frequent cancer in Korea. There are several risk factors including male sex, older age, smoking and family history of colon cancer. Recently, obesity is thought to be a risk factor for CRC and advanced colon polyps. Therefore, we designed a cross-sectional study to determine the association between BMI and advanced colorectal neoplasia. METHODS ...

A Novel Large-Scale Deletion of The Mitochondrial DNA of Spermatozoa of Men in North Iran

Body mass index as predictor for asthma: a cohort study of 118 723 men and women

The objective of this study was to quantify the relationship between body mass index (BMI, kg/m) and asthma in middle-aged men and women and to evaluate change in BMI as a risk factor for asthma. Asthma incidence was estimated from redeemed prescriptions of anti-asthmatic drugs from 2004 through 2007 retrieved from the nationwide Norwegian Prescription Database. BMI was measured during health s...

body mass index as a predictor of complications and conversion in patients undergoing laparoscopic colectomy

Objective: Evaluate the predictive value of body mass index (bMI) for hospital length-of-stay, surgical conversion, and postoperative complications in laparoscopic colorectal surgeries. Methods: retrospective analysis of 152 patients undergoing laparoscopic colorectal surgery. Patients were divided into two groups: group I (bMI≤30) and group II (bMI>30). the average hospital length-of-stay and ...

Body mass index as predictor for asthma: a cohort study of 118,723 males and females.

The objective of the present study was to quantify the relationship between body mass index (BMI; in kilogrammes per metre squared) and asthma in middle-aged males and females, and to evaluate change in BMI as a risk factor for asthma. Asthma incidence was estimated from data on redeemed prescriptions of anti-asthmatic drugs during the period 2004-2007, retrieved from the nationwide Norwegian P...