STUDY DESIGN Retrospective study. OBJECTIVE Efficient use of operating room time is important, as delays during induction or recovery increase time not spent operating while in the operating room. We identified factors that increase anesthetized, nonoperative time by utilizing a database of over 5,000 consecutive neurosurgical spine cases. METHODS Surgical records were searched to identify ...

OBJECTIVE The study aimed to establish the effects of age, gender and age-gender interactions on BMI-% fat relationships over a wide range of BMI and age. It also aimed to examine controversies regarding linear or curvilinear BMI-% fat relationships. METHODS Body composition was measured using validated bio-impedance equipment (Bodystat) in a large self-selected sample of 23,627 UK adults age...

purpose: to determine the correlation between body mass index (bmi) and exudative age-related macular degeneration (armd). methods: this case-control study was conducted on 60 patients with exudative armd and 60 controls, both aged over 50. age, sex, cigarette smoking and blood pressure were evaluated beside bmi. data analysis was performed by spss software, version 9.0 using pearson chi square...

OBJECTIVE Despite much effort, obesity remains a significant public health problem. One of the main contributing factors is patients' perception of their target ideal body weight. This study aimed to assess this perception. METHODS The study took place in an urban area, with the majority of participants in the study being Hispanic (65.7%) or African-American (28.0%). Patients presented to an ...

Introduction: A higher body mass index (BMI) has been correlated with worse outcome after radical prostatectomy (RP), but this observation has been mainly noticed in clinically localized disease. The objective of this study is to analyze the relationship between BMI and outcome of surgery for clinical unilateral T3a (cT3a) prostate cancer. Patients and Methods: Two hundred patients with cT3a pr...

BACKGROUND Several studies showed that the waist circumference of US adults has increased over the past 25 y. However, because of the high correlation between waist circumference and body mass index (BMI; in kg/m²) (r ∼ 0.9), it is uncertain if these trends in waist circumference exceed those expected on the basis of BMI changes over this time period. OBJECTIVE We assessed whether the recent ...

PURPOSE Menopause can affect the reportedly inverse association between adiponectin and blood pressure (BP); however, this relationship is still poorly understood. The present study cross-sectionally compared the relationship between adiponectin and BP in pre- and postmenopausal women. METHODS Healthy, asymptomatic women on no medication (n = 262) were divided into a premenopausal group (n = ...

introduction: since most studies on ankle sprain are medical and sports-related and not much epidemiologic and etiologic data from the general population exist in this field, the present study evaluates the relationship between q angle and anthropometric measures with ankle sprain in the general population. methods: in the present case-control study, all of the patients over 18 years age presen...

OBJECTIVE To assess the association between BMI, fitness, and mortality in African American and Caucasian men with type 2 diabetes and to explore racial differences in this association. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We used prospective observational data from Veterans Affairs Medical Centers in Washington, DC, and Palo Alto, California. Our cohort (N = 4,156; mean age 60 ± 10.3 years) consisted...

BACKGROUND Obesity is a risk factor for a number of chronic diseases. Few longitudinal studies have examined changes in body mass index (BMI [calculated as weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters]). OBJECTIVE To investigate the changes in mean BMI and the prevalence of obesity in a large cohort examined several times during a 20-year period. METHODS Mean BMI, the p...