Inverse relationship between the body mass index and severity of carotid siphon calcifications (another obesity paradox): Results from the Atahualpa Project

2017 ◽  
Vol 259 ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oscar H. Del Brutto ◽  
Robertino M. Mera
Keyword(s):  
Body Mass Index ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
Inverse Relationship ◽  
Obesity Paradox ◽  
The Body ◽  
Carotid Siphon ◽  
Atahualpa Project

scholarly journals Obesity and bariatric intervention in patients with chronic renal disease

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (6) ◽  
pp. 2326-2341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Irene Bellini ◽  
Filippo Paoletti ◽  
Paul Elliot Herbert
Keyword(s):  
Bariatric Surgery ◽  
Body Mass Index ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
Chronic Renal Disease ◽  
High Body Mass Index ◽  
Obesity Paradox ◽  
The Body ◽  
Definitive Evidence ◽  
Metabolic Conditions ◽  
Transplant Candidates

Obesity is associated with chronic metabolic conditions that directly and indirectly cause kidney parenchymal damage. A review of the literature was conducted to explore existing evidence of the relationship between obesity and chronic kidney disease as well as the role of bariatric surgery in improving access to kidney transplantation for patients with a high body mass index. The review showed no definitive evidence to support the use of a transplant eligibility cut-off parameter based solely on the body mass index. Moreover, in the pre-transplant scenario, the obesity paradox is associated with better patient survival among obese than non-obese patients, although promising results of bariatric surgery are emerging. However, until more information regarding improvement in outcomes for obese kidney transplant candidates is available, clinicians should focus on screening of the overall frailty condition of transplant candidates to ensure their eligibility and addition to the wait list.

The association of body mass index with endometriosis and disease severity in women with pain

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah J Holdsworth-Carson ◽  
Uri P Dior ◽  
Eliza M Colgrave ◽  
Martin Healey ◽  
Grant W Montgomery ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Mass Index ◽  
Retrospective Study ◽  
Disease Severity ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
Inverse Relationship ◽  
Population Based ◽  
The Body ◽  
World Health ◽  
Obese Women ◽  
American Fertility Society

Introduction: There is a well-established inverse relationship between body mass index and frequency of endometriosis. However, these population-based studies have relied mostly on self-reported cases of endometriosis, rather than surgically confirmed endometriosis where disease severity has been objectively assessed. The aim of the current retrospective study was to establish whether the established relationship between endometriosis and low body mass index was independent of disease severity. Methods: Women with menstrual and/or pelvic pain undergoing laparoscopy for suspected endometriosis were recruited for this retrospective study (n = 509). Women were grouped by body mass index (kg/m2) according to World Health Organization criteria: underweight (<18.5), normal (18.5–24.99), pre-obese (25–29.99) or obese (≥30). Endometriosis was scored according to the revised American Fertility Society system. Data were analysed based on body mass index and endometriosis status to identify any relationship between body mass index and disease. Results: The average body mass index of women with endometriosis was 25.0 kg/m2. The body mass index distribution of women with endometriosis differed relative to women in the general population. As expected, fewer obese women had endometriosis than in the lower body mass index categories. However, the obese women who did have endometriosis had significantly higher revised American Fertility Society scores compared to women with normal and pre-obese body mass indices. Discussion: Our results are consistent with the established finding of an inverse relationship between body mass index and endometriosis. The novel finding from this study is that obesity is associated with increased disease severity and reduced frequency of stage I endometriosis. It remains unclear what role body mass index has in the cause or effect of endometriosis; we speculate that body mass index may be useful for sub-classifying the disease.

Presence of Cerebral Microbleeds Is Unrelated to the Body Mass Index in Amerindians. A Population Study in Rural Ecuador (The Atahualpa Project)

2016 ◽  
Vol 75 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 164-168
Author(s):  
Oscar H. Del Brutto ◽  
Robertino M. Mera ◽  
Mauricio Zambrano ◽  
Scheny Feraud
Keyword(s):  
Body Mass Index ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
Population Study ◽  
Cerebral Microbleeds ◽  
The Body ◽  
Atahualpa Project

scholarly journals Socio-medical aspects of the normalization of body mass

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 49-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina Leskova ◽  
Dmitriy Ermakov ◽  
Elena Matushevskaya ◽  
Ol'ga Nishnianidze
Keyword(s):  
Body Mass Index ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Fast Food ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Premature Death ◽  
Obesity Paradox ◽  
The United States ◽  
Significant Rise ◽  
The Body

Increased body mass index (BMI) in today's world has become one of the most common and extremely dangerous to humanity diseases. The expansion of fast food chains, high-calorie food, sedentary lifestyle, stress, accumulation of population in cities – the main causes of overweight. In the twenty-first century, in scientific literature introduced a new term "globesity", reflecting the global nature of global problems. However, studies in recent years, several break this logic: "overweight – obesity – the risk of chronic diseases – the risk of premature death." Often, those with elevated BMI have a greater life expectancy than patients with normal or decreased BMI. The latter causes the appearance of a new term "obesity paradox". Indeed, increased BMI significantly reduces the quality of life, increases the risk of social problems. Persons suffering from increased BMI, harder to find a job and to arrange his personal life. In the United States of America the presence of increased body mass index (BMI) results in a significant rise in the cost of health insurance. Reducing excess weight is completely dependent on patients who need along with medication to live a healthy lifestyle. An important direction of minimize obesity and its consequences seem to be a diet, refusal of personal transport, leisure, vacation travel. American society of specialists in the field of metabolic and bariatric surgery define obesity as a chronic, relapsing, multifactorial neurobehavioral disorder in which the increase of fat in the body contributes to the dysfunction of adipose tissue with the development of threat for physical and psychological health of the metabolic and psychosocial consequences.

191: Does the Body Mass Index Affect the Outcome Following Reconstruction of Orthotopic Neobladder?

2007 ◽  
Vol 177 (4S) ◽  
pp. 64-64
Author(s):  
Murugesan Manoharan ◽  
Martha A. Reyes ◽  
Alan M. Nieder ◽  
Bruce R. Kava ◽  
MarkS Soloway
Keyword(s):  
Body Mass Index ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
The Body ◽  
Orthotopic Neobladder

EFFECT OF BODY MASS INDEX ON PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW RATE

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Subramanyam ◽  
Dr. P. Subhash Babu
Keyword(s):  
Body Mass Index ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
Peak Expiratory Flow ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Peak Expiratory Flow Rate ◽  
Normal Weight ◽  
The Body ◽  
Health Care Centre ◽  
Expiratory Flow ◽  
Group B

Obesity has become one of the major health issues in India. WHO defines obesity as “A condition with excessive fat accumulation in the body to the extent that the health and wellbeing are adversely affected”. Obesity results from a complex interaction of genetic, behavioral, environmental and socioeconomic factors causing an imbalance in energy production and expenditure. Peak expiratory flow rate is the maximum rate of airflow that can be generated during forced expiratory manoeuvre starting from total lung capacity. The simplicity of the method is its main advantage. It is measured by using a standard Wright Peak Flow Meter or mini Wright Meter. The aim of the study is to see the effect of body mass index on Peak Expiratory Flow Rate values in young adults. The place of a study was done tertiary health care centre, in India for the period of 6 months. Study was performed on 80 subjects age group 20 -30 years, categorised as normal weight BMI =18.5 -24.99 kg/m2 and overweight BMI =25-29.99 kg/m2. There were 40 normal weight BMI (Group A) and 40 over weight BMI (Group B). BMI affects PEFR. Increase in BMI decreases PEFR. Early identification of risk individuals prior to the onset of disease is imperative in our developing country. Keywords: BMI, PEFR.

Visual body processing’s associations to Body Mass Index and internalization of societal beauty ideals

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Cazzato ◽  
Elizabeth Walters ◽  
Cosimo Urgesi
Keyword(s):  
Body Mass Index ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
Visual Processing ◽  
The Body ◽  
Configural Processing ◽  
Cultural Ideals ◽  
Beauty Ideals ◽  
Female Bodies ◽  
Processing Mechanisms ◽  
Attention To Detail

We examined whether visual processing mechanisms of the body of conspecifics are different in women and men and whether these rely on westernised socio-cultural ideals and body image concerns. Twenty-four women and 24 men performed a visual discrimination task of upright or inverted images of female or male bodies and faces (Experiment 1) and objects (Experiment 2). In Experiment 1, both groups of women and men showed comparable abilities in the discrimination of upright and inverted bodies and faces. However, the genders of the human stimuli yielded different effects on participants’ performance, so that male bodies and female faces appeared to be processed less configurally than female bodies and male faces, respectively. Interestingly, altered configural processing for male bodies was significantly predicted by participants’ Body Mass Index (BMI) and their level of internalization of muscularity. Our findings suggest that configural visual processing of bodies and faces in women and men may be linked to a selective attention to detail needed for discriminating salient physical (perhaps sexual) cues of conspecifics. Importantly, BMI and muscularity internalization of beauty ideals may also play a crucial role in this mechanism.

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