George Costanza For years, my various physicians let me skate by. I would dutifully (if trepidatiously) hop onto the scales for my weight assessment, but I was ...
A nulliparous woman in her 40s presented with abdominal pain and dyspnoea during the second trimester of pregnancy.
Objectives Female sex and anticitrullinated protein antibodies (ACPA) are associated with higher disease activity in ...
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Background Low socioeconomic status (SES) is linked to increased cardiovascular risk, but its association with carotid atherosclerosis in the general population is less well studied. We examined ...
For decades, body mass index (BMI) has been the dominant tool for defining obesity, despite longstanding concerns that it poorly reflects individual health risk. Growing evidence suggests that the ...
Elevated body mass index (BMI) and physical inactivity are metabolic drivers of hypertension-related chronic kidney disease (HT-CKD), with elevated BMI exerting a greater impact, according to a study ...
Waist-to-height ratio outperforms BMI in predicting heart disease risk, particularly among people who are not classified as ...
More than one in three cancers could be prevented with simple lifestyle habits, a major study from researchers looking at ...
Researchers have quantified the role of obesity in common long-term conditions, showing for the first time the effect of ...
A combined FFI may provide better risk stratification for cardiovascular mortality than standalone measures of fitness or ...
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