Differential effects of obesity on perioperative outcomes in renal cell carcinoma patients based on race and ethnicity and neighborhood-level socioeconomic status.

Background: Obesity is a well-established risk factor of renal cell carcinoma (RCC), however the impact of obesity on surgical outcomes for racial and ethnic minority patients with RCC is unclear. This study investigated whether a higher body mass index (BMI) or obesity (BMI ≥30 kg/m) was associated with worse perioperative outcomes and if there were heterogeneous effects based on race, ethnicity, and neighborhood-level socioeconomic factor.

Methods: In this single-center cross-sectional study, medical records of patients who underwent partial or radical nephrectomy between 2010 and 2022 were retrospectively reviewed.

Thermal convection in nanofluids for peristaltic flow in a nonuniform channel.

A magneto couple stress nanofluid flow along with double diffusive convection is presented for peristaltic induce flow through symmetric nonuniform channel. A comprehensive mathematical model is scrutinized for couple stress nanofluid magneto nanofluids and corresponding equations of motions are tackled by applying small Reynolds and long wavelength approximation in viewing the scenario of the biological flow. Computational solution is exhibited with the help of graphical illustration for nanoparticle volume fraction, solutal concentration and temperature profiles in MATHEMTICA software.

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Preoperative Surgical Wait Time and Renal Cell Carcinoma Tumor Characteristics.

Racial/ethnic minority groups have a disproportionate burden of kidney cancer. The objective of this study was to assess if race/ethnicity was associated with a longer surgical wait time (SWT) and upstaging in the pre-COVID-19 pandemic time with a special focus on Hispanic Americans (HAs) and American Indian/Alaska Natives (AIs/ANs). Medical records of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) patients who underwent nephrectomy between 2010 and 2020 were retrospectively reviewed ( = 489).