Topic: body mass index

The escalating global obesity epidemic underscores the need to understand its intricate health implications. Research highlights associations between elevated body mass index (BMI) and structural changes in both white and gray matter (WM, GM). Given the indirect nature of BMI as an indicator of adiposity, a comprehensive evaluation of body composition becomes essential. This study explores distinct adipose tissue compartments, adipokine levels, and their interplay with structural alterations in both WM and GM, elucidating the complex relationship between obesity, brain structure, and metabolic

Available treatments for Anorexia Nervosa (AN) have demonstrated limited efficacy. Moreover, therapeutic interventions focusing on neural correlates and on populations with AN in adolescence are limited. A double-blind, placebo-controlled, add-on randomized trial (RCT) was conducted to study the efficacy of excitatory transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over the left prefrontal cortex in improving the clinical outcome of traditional treatment in adolescents with AN. Fifty girls with AN (aged 10 to 18 years) underwent 18 sessions of tDCS treatment (active or placebo) over the PFC (an

We aimed to investigate the association between WC and all-cause mortality of Parkinson disease (PD) using Korean National Health Insurance Service cohort data. Patients newly diagnosed PD were selected using the ICD-10 code (G20) and rare intractable disease registration code (V124). Anthropometric data including WC and body mass index (BMI) were obtained from the health screening data. We classified WC into following five categories: <70, 70–80, 80–90, 90–100, and ≥100 cm in males; <65, 65–75, 75–85, 85–95, ≥95 cm in females. The Cox proportional hazards model was used to assess all-ca