ArticleDiabetes care2013
Defending the con side: obesity paradox does not exist.
Article in Diabetes care, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.
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26 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Association of a modified body shape index with cognitive impairment in middle-aged and elderly Chinese adults: a cross-sectional analysis from CHARLS.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- The saturation effect of a body shape index on lumbar bone mineral density in US adults: Findings from a nationwide survey.PloS one · 2025Article
- Relationship between weight-adjusted waist index (WWI) and osteoarthritis: a cross-sectional study using NHANES data.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Reduced cardiovascular events through dynamic lifestyle modification in individuals with prediabetes or prehypertension in Korea: a nationwide cohort study.Ewha medical journal · 2024Article
- Association between weight-adjusted-waist index and the prevalence of rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis: a population-based study.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2023Article
- The association between weight-adjusted-waist index and total bone mineral density in adolescents: NHANES 2011-2018.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023Article
- Impact of BMI on Long-Term Outcomes in Patients with ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction after Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention.International journal of clinical practice · 2022Article
- The obesity paradox and diabetes.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2021Review
- Type 2 Diabetes Is a Risk Factor for Suffering and for in-Hospital Mortality with Pulmonary Embolism. A Population-Based Study in Spain (2016-2018).International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Using compartmental models to simulate directed acyclic graphs to explore competing causal mechanisms underlying epidemiological study data.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2020Article
- Epidemiology and outcomes of obese critically ill patients in Australia and New Zealand.Critical care and resuscitation : journal of the Australasian Academy of Critical Care Medicine · 2020Observational
- Is the Obesity Paradox in Type 2 Diabetes Due to Artefacts of Biases? An Analysis of Pooled Cohort Data from the Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study and the Study of Health in Pomerania.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2020Article
- Some clarifications of terminology may facilitate sarcopenia assessment.Archives of medical science : AMS · 2020Article
- Metabolic health is more closely associated with decrease in lung function than obesity.PloS one · 2019Article
- A novel adiposity index as an integrated predictor of cardiometabolic disease morbidity and mortality.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Determining the joint effect of obesity and diabetes on functional disability at 3-months and on all-cause mortality at 1-year following an ischemic stroke.BMC endocrine disorders · 2018Article
- Cardiovascular and Metabolic Heterogeneity of Obesity: Clinical Challenges and Implications for Management.Circulation · 2018Review
- An Apparent Obesity Paradox in Cardiac Surgery.Circulation · 2017Article
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