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Arq Bras Cir Dig
January 2025
Universidade de São Paulo, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Gastroenterology - São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
Background: Obesity is a predisposing factor for serious comorbidities, particularly those related to elevated cardiovascular mortality. The atherogenic index of plasma (AIP) has been shown to be a useful indicator of patients with insulin resistance.
Aims: The aim of this study was to assess cardiovascular risk before and after surgical treatment of obesity.
Cien Saude Colet
January 2025
Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo. Vitória ES Brasil.
The scope of this article is to analyze the correlation between alcohol consumption and abdominal obesity in participants of the ELSA-Brasil cohort after a follow-up period of nine years. A longitudinal analysis was performed with baseline and follow-up data from ELSA-Brasil. At baseline, 15,105 civil servants were enrolled.
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January 2025
Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Rio de Janeiro RJ Brasil.
The scope of this study was to determine the diagnostic performance of ABSI for obesity and sarcopenic obesity, compared to the results of bioimpedance analysis (BIA) and BMI, by sex and age group. It involved a cross-sectional study with 12,793 participants in the second round of ELSA-Brasil (Longitudinal Study of Adult Health in Brazil), which obtained measurements of body fat percentage using BIA and anthropometry, verifying the performance of the diagnostic tests in order to compare the indices. The results showed that for obesity in men in all three age groups, the sensitivity was below 49%.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPLoS One
January 2025
Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Background: Health behaviors, health, and income change during aging. However, no previous studies have examined, how they develop together over the transition to statutory retirement. We aimed to examine their joint development and to identify the determinants of any distinct trajectories.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGinekol Pol
January 2025
Department of Obstetrics and Perinatology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Cracow, Poland, Poland.
Objectives: To evaluate relationship between sFlt-1/PlGF ratio, clinical characteristics and outcomes of pre-eclampsia.
Material And Methods: Retrospective analysis of 29 pregnant women with pre-eclampsia who had measured sFlt-1/PlGF ratio was conducted using electronic medical records from Obstetrics and Perinatology ward of University Hospital in Cracow.
Results: Women median age: 33.
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