Purpose Inconsistent results have been reported in the literature on the association between
obesity, expressed as increased body mass index (BMI), and risk for surgical site infection …

Objective To examine changes in representation of women among first authors of original
research published in high impact general medical journals from 1994 to 2014 and …

Background Quantiles are a staple of epidemiologic research: in contemporary
epidemiologic practice, continuous variables are typically categorized into tertiles, quartiles …

Purpose Obesity (body mass index [BMI]≥ 30 kg/m2) is common among patients with
cancer. We reviewed management issues in the obese patient with cancer, focusing on how …

Background Despite the epidemic rise in obesity, few studies have evaluated the effect of
obesity on cost following cardiac surgery. We hypothesized that increasing body mass index …

Objective: Obesity is associated with a variety of diseases, which results in a decreased
overall life expectancy. Nevertheless, some studies suggest that being overweight may …

The World Health Organization (Geneva, Switzerland) and the National Heart, Lung, and
Blood Institute (Bethesda, Maryland) have developed standard categories of body mass …

An inverse relationship between body mass index (BMI) and mortality (the obesity paradox)
has been found in patients with non-dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease (CKD) …

The purpose of the present report was to determine the frequency of a congenitally bicuspid
aortic valve in patients≥ 80 years of age old with aortic stenosis (AS) severe enough to …

Objective Traditional methods to deal with non-linearity in regression analysis often result in
loss of information or compromised interpretability of the results. A recommended but …