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...

BACKGROUND The association between increased body mass index (BMI) and subsequent mortality remains unclear in Asians. This study investigated the associations between BMI increases and cause-specific mortality in middle-aged Korean men. METHODS We conducted a retrospective cohort study of 473 358 Korean men aged 30-64 years, who had undergone health examinations in both 1992 and 1998 and wer...

BMI has been recommended for evaluating overweight and obesity in children and adolescents in the clinical setting. Definitions of overweight and obesity are based on percentile cutoff points. There are both strengths and limitations of BMI for this use. The strengths include the fact that BMI is cheap and relatively easy to use. The weaknesses include the fact that BMI percentiles are not wide...

BACKGROUND Weight management is considered a key therapeutic strategy in type 2 diabetes mellitus. However, little is known about the impact of weight loss or body mass index (BMI) reduction on type 2 diabetes-related healthcare costs. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to estimate the economic impact of change in BMI among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus from the Spanish healthcare s...