[PDF] Top 20 Obesity survival paradox in pneumonia: a meta-analysis

... dose–response analysis, we calculated the RR per 5-unit increase in the BMI levels for each ...response analysis and study-specific slopes (linear trends) and 95% CIs were computed from the natural logs of ... See full document

... diagnosing pneumonia, especially in critical situations as it represents relatively easy and immediately available ...and meta‑analysis are aimed to estimate the pooled diagnostic accuracy of ... See full document

... of pneumonia in ...childhood pneumonia may have an important impact in different clinical settings, especially in resource-poor countries and small primary care clinics where CRs may not be commonly ... See full document

... of pneumonia is made by patient history confirmed with chest radiograph or computed ...with pneumonia, techniques used to obtain quality images, and the evidence in literature supporting the use of lung ... See full document

... the paradox by obscuring faint but true signals from bona fide ...on meta-analysis [11] may be due to damping of the ‘true’ VAP morbidity signal by misclassifying relatively benign conditions as ... See full document

... acquired pneumonia and sepsis, obesity was associated with better ...and survival with infection is suggested by the results of two preliminary studies of infections in mice, where high-fat feeding ... See full document

... investigated obesity in ALL patients or ...to obesity ( “ obesity, ” “ weight, ” “ body composition, ” “ growth, ” etc) in combi- nation with survivors ( “ survivors, ” “ remission, ” “ disease-free ... See full document

... and obesity are conflicting. Recently, Pavelka et al. reported that obesity affects ovarian cancer mortality by influencing tumor biology ...in survival ac- cording to body mass index (BMI) ... See full document

... It has been established that cow milk contains signify- cantly higher levels of protein and fat than human milk. The high fat and protein levels found in bovine based formula lead to an increased secretion of IGF-1 ... See full document

... American College of Physicians (ACP) guidelines recommends diet and life style modification in all patients and addition of pharmacological therapy for those who fail to attain the target weight loss. Surgical approaches ... See full document

... Overall survival (OS) under nivolumab and cabozantinib have been compared in a recent network meta-analysis (NMA) [16] using data from the pivotal trials for each treatment ...a ... See full document

... Background: Obesity is an increasing disease worldwide. Bariatric surgery is the only effective therapy to induce sufficient long-term weight loss for morbidly obese patients. Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass ... See full document

... literature search was conducted by using PubMed, EMBASE, and Web of Science databases to assess the prognostic value of PLR in patients with NSCLC. The search strategy was based on combinations of the following search ... See full document

... of obesity, index such as BMI, waist circumference (WC), waist-to-hip ratio (WHR),waist-to–height ratio are often used, BMI is most widely used as universal standard among these index ... See full document

... 2-stage meta-analysis – association of gestational diabetes with BMI SDS in early ...2-stage meta-analysis – association of gestational diabetes with BMI SDS in mid ...2-stage ... See full document

... and meta-analysis is the fi rst to assess the association be- tween maternal obesity or overweight and infant ...maternal obesity is a risk factor per se for infant ...maternal obesity ... See full document

... recent meta-analyses performed with extensive follow- up (ranging from ...and obesity in midlife increase dementia risk and that predictive ability of BMI varied over ... See full document

... Obesity and overweight are conditions associated with fat accumulation in adipocytes and occur as a result of an imbalance between food intake and adolescents [1]. It is estimated that 170 million children aged ... See full document

... According to this meta-analysis, we can conclude that obese adolescents with NAFLD have a higher BMD and Z-score than obese adolescents without NAFLD. However, when comparing the BMCs of the two groups, ... See full document

... and obesity throughout childhood in the basic and lifestyle characteristics models, with the strongest association in early-childhood (OR 1·59 (95% Confidence Intervals (CI) 1·36, 1·86) (Figure ...and ... See full document