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Thursday, January 08, 2009

Weight loss in Huntington disease increases with higher CAG repeat number.

2 Nov 2008 OBJECTIVE: Huntington disease (HD) is a hereditary neurodegenerative disorder caused by an expanded number of CAG repeats in the huntingtin gene. A hallmark of HD is unintended weight loss, the cause of which is unknown. In order to elucidate the ... Read more...

[Refeeding syndrome in severely malnourished patient]

Nov 2008 Refeeding syndrome is a potentially lethal condition observed in severely malnourished patients due to severe shifts in electrolytes during refeeding. We report the refeeding of a severely malnourished 53-year old male with a body mass index (BMI) ... Read more...

[Weight history of patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes--secondary publication]

Nov 2008 The aim was to estimate and illustrate the weight history of 1,320 newly diagnosed diabetic patients according to patient characteristics at diagnosis. The median recalled weight gain from age 20 to diabetes diagnosis at a median age of 65.3 years ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Body Mass Index'

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• Weight loss in Huntington disease increases with higher CAG repeat number. 2 Nov 2008
• [Refeeding syndrome in severely malnourished patient] Nov 2008
• [Weight history of patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes--secondary publication] Nov 2008
• Effect of obesity and other lifestyle factors on mortality in women with breast cancer. 30 Oct 2008
• The John Insall Award: gender-specific total knee replacement: prospectively collected clinical outcomes. 30 Oct 2008
• The Chitranjan Ranawat Award: functional outcome after total knee replacement varies with patient attributes. 30 Oct 2008
• Alterations in hepatic glucose and energy metabolism as a result of calorie and carbohydrate restriction. 30 Oct 2008
• Neck circumference and difficult intubation. 30 Oct 2008
• Systematic review and meta-analysis of bariatric surgery for pediatric obesity. 30 Oct 2008
• Selective nonoperative management of leaks after gastric bypass: lessons learned from 2675 consecutive patients. 30 Oct 2008
• Prolonged waiting times for liver transplantation in obese patients. 30 Oct 2008
• Changes in abdominal obesity and age-related macular degeneration: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. 30 Oct 2008
• Relation between obesity and blunted striatal response to food is moderated by TaqIA A1 allele. 15 Oct 2008
• Body mass index and cancer risk in Korean men and women. 13 Oct 2008
• Obesity-related hypertension?: weighing the evidence. 11 Oct 2008
• Trends in hypertension prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control rates in United States adults between 1988-1994 and 1999-2004. 11 Oct 2008
• [Is there a unique measuring method to assess obesity?] 10 Oct 2008
• Sleep-disordered breathing and blood pressure in children. 4 Oct 2008
• Blood pressure associated with sleep-disordered breathing in a population sample of children. 4 Oct 2008
• Association of adiposity status and changes in early to mid-adulthood with incidence of Alzheimer's disease. Oct 2008

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Technical information about 'Body Mass Index'

Definition: An indicator of body density as determined by the relationship of BODY WEIGHT to BODY HEIGHT. BMI=weight (kg)/height squared (m2). BMI correlates with body fat (ADIPOSE TISSUE). Their relationship varies with age and gender. For adults, BMI falls into these categories: below 18.5 (underweight); 18.5-24.9 (normal); 25.0-29.9 (overweight); 30.0 and above (obese). (National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Descriptor UI: D015992

Alternative terms: Body Mass Index; Index, Body Mass; Quetelet Index; Index, Quetelet; Quetelet's Index; Quetelets Index;

Tree Number: E01.370.600.115.100.125; E05.978.077.125; G07.100.100.125; N06.850.505.200.100.175;

History Note: 90