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Centre for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Birmingham Health Partners, Birmingham, UK
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longitudinal studies in adults over the age of 25 have shown that long-term treatment with GH does not normalise the metabolic profile and it even increases body mass index (BMI) ( 3 , 11 , 12 ). Currently, GH treatment in adults involves daily subcutaneous
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the questionnaires and health examination in the mobile centers, including age, race, education levels, annual family income, body mass index (BMI), physical activity, serum cotinine, marital status, calcium intake, smoking status, drinking status, and
Diabetes and Endocrine Unit, National Hospital, Kandy, Sri Lanka
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the mean age, gender, body weight, body mass index (BMI), etiology of hypothyroidism, interfering medications, levothyroxine storage technique, and levothyroxine ingestion technique between cases and controls. Cases had a longer mean duration of being
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Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital, University Medical Center, Lundlaan, EA Utrecht, The Netherlands
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mineralization ( 15 , 16 ). Besides the increase in body mass index (BMI), pituitary deficiencies and immobilization (due to visual problems, fatigue, and/or lack of initiative) are common in these patients and may contribute to bone problems ( 17 ). Lastly
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Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, Hôpital Bicêtre, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France
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variables were evaluated: body mass index (BMI) (overweight 25–29.9 and obesity ≥30 kg/m 2 ); waist/hip ratio (central obesity ≥0.8 in females and ≥0.9 in males, respectively); hypertension (blood pressure >140/90 mmHg); type 2 diabetes; dyslipidaemia and
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clinical characteristics of PA1 and HS at the time of the baseline CMR1-CE are shown in Table 1 . PA1 and HS did not differ in terms of age or sex, but the PA1 patients had higher body mass index (BMI) and higher BP than the HS (median BMI 26 (range 22
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body weight were measured as part of the health examination. Body mass index (BMI) was calculated from the measured height and weight. BMI was categorized as underweight (<18.5 kg/m 2 ), normal weight (≥18.5 kg/m 2 , <23 kg/m 2 ), overweight (≥23 kg/m 2
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plethora, violet striae – denoting cortisol excess ( 17 ). Height and body mass index (BMI) were expressed in standard deviation scores (SDS), according to the World Health Organization (WHO) curves for children of 0–5 years (2006) and 5–19 years (2007
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= ‘did not sleep’. Other data collected in the sleep diary comprised self-report height and weight (used to calculate body mass index; BMI), age, years of fire and emergency service experience, smoking status and average daily caffeinated beverage
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-stimulating hormone (FSH) and sex-hormone binding globulin (SHBG)) were measured as described below. Degree of overweight was calculated as body mass index (BMI). We used Box–Cox transformation to calculate BMI-SDS as a measure for degree of overweight ( 12 ). As