Bryan Maguire’s research while affiliated with Cancer Care Ontario and other places

... It has been suggested that this measurement may be a more effective predictor of percent body fat and metabolic syndrome than BMI (13) . Moreover, TMI is observed to be fairly consistent throughout childhood and adolescence (14) . Therefore, utilising a single cut-off value for TMI can be a practical and convenient approach (12) . ...

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Comparison of BMI, triponderal mass index, and paediatric body adiposity Index for predicting body fat and screening obesity in preschool children

... However, the current HbA1c diagnostic criteria for prediabetes (HbA1c : 5.7%-6.4%) and diabetes (HbA1c ≥ 6.5%) are only recommended for adults, and the evidence-based reference ranges for HbA1c in children and adolescents remain unclear [9,11,12]. This gap in knowledge causes uncertainty, possibly exposing many youths to an increased risk of delayed diagnosis and nonstandardized care. ...

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Capillary Glycated Hemoglobin A1c Percentiles and the Risk Factors Associated with Abnormal HbA1c among Chinese Children Aged 3–12 Years

... This relationship is useful in predicting the value of one of the factors based on the values given to the other factor. Logistic regression can give us only two values, for example 0 and 1 or yes and no, and in this case it is called binary classification, or it gives several values as a result of the prediction, and in this case it is called multi-valued prediction (classification) [25,26]. Classification is accomplished with a binary dependent variable (0/1, -1/1, or represented by true/false) and a binary independent variable or deprivation by using the sigma function. ...

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Phishing Website Detection Based on Data Tuning Methods with PCA of Multidimensional Features by Machine Learning Algorithms

... Dentro de ellos, la bupivacaína se aproxima al ideal para bloqueo subaracnoideo en operación cesárea. [15][16][17][18] Es un fármaco potente, con menos paso transplacentario y menor incidencia de síndrome neurológico transitorio. Si se logra una altura adecuada del bloqueo, el fármaco solo proporciona anestesia satisfactoria, con dosis recomendadas de 5 a 12 mg; 23-25 lo que fue constatado en la presente investigación, al encontrarse un número elevado de pacientes con respuesta al tratamiento satisfactoria. ...

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Anestesia Regional Espinal con Bupivacaína Hipobárica versus Bupivacaína Isobárica en la Cesárea Electiva

... In another study based on 2,921,714 breast cancer cases diagnosed across 64 global regions over spans from 2 to 53 years, breast cancer was consistently diagnosed more often in spring and fall, both in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, regardless of presumable menopausal status. Concerning paediatric cancers, seasonal trends in incidence and diagnosis have been sometimes detected but on average the results are inconsistent (Ross et al. 1999;Nurullah et al. 2018). Thus, largely because BOX 1 | Tasmanian devils as an example of the complex interplay between age, season and immunity shaping the cancer risk. ...

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When Do Tumours Develop? Neoplastic Processes Across Different Timescales: Age, Season and Round the Circadian Clock

... There were 11,732 and 13,687 catheter days in CICCs and PICCs. The respective median catheter days were 20 (interquartile range [IQR]: 11-30) and 22 (IQR: [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30]. More than 95% of the inserted catheters were removed during the study period, the primary reason being the completion of treatment, followed by suspected infection, in both groups. ...

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Peripherally inserted central venous catheters decrease central line-associated bloodstream infections and change microbiological epidemiology in adult hematology unit: a propensity score-adjusted analysis

... Preterm birth was positively associated with SBP. Our results partially support previous studies indicating that unfavourable early life factors, particularly high birth weight for gestational age is associated with an increased cardiometabolic risk mainly in terms of higher MetS score and adiposity [31,32]. Being born SGA showed a negative association with WC z-score in children below the age of ten which became smaller in teens. ...

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Early life factors and later metabolic syndrome in European children and adolescents

... The tricipital (TSFT) and subscapular (SSFT) skin folds were collected using a Harpenden skin fold caliper with a precision of 0.2 mm from the average of 2 consecutive measurements. The oncology nurse measured the weight and height of the participants to the nearest 0.1 kg and 0.1 cm, and these measurements were used to compute body mass index (BMI (if >2 y old) or the weight-for-length (W-L) ratio (if <2 y old) Finally, the Microsoft ® Office Excel ® tool (developed by the British Columbia Children Hospital) and the Canadian Pediatric Endocrine Group (based on the 2014 version of Growth Charts for Canada) were used to calculate the BMI and W-L z-scores [61], while the WC, MUAC, TSFT, and SSFT z-scores were derived from populational reference data [62][63][64]. ...

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Impact of Early Nutritional Intervention During Cancer Treatment on Dietary Intakes and Cardiometabolic Health in Children and Adolescents

... Among these, 25 studies were from North America. Of these, 19 studies were conducted in the United States of America [29,41,[43][44][45]53,55,58,60,63,64,66,67,78,84,85,87,88,90] and six studies in Canada [50][51][52]54,74,77]. ...

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Does Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution Affect Gestational Age and Newborn Weight?—A Systematic Review

... Indian girls had higher BMI values after the age of 10 years, with a more pronounced increase between the ages of 11 and 14 years; in boys, this increase was greater between the ages of 11 and 15 years 24 . The BMI of Canadian female adolescents showed a more pronounced increase from the age of 15 years (23.7 kg/m 2 ), whereas that of boys increased linearly from 10 to 19 years of age and was consistently higher than the WHO values 25 . In Brazil, the BMI trajectory of adolescents in the Pelotas Birth Cohort was analyzed at 11, 15 and 18 years of age, and the mean BMI values were consistently above the WHO reference values for boys and girls; however, fluctuations in BMI values were not identified throughout this phase, as in the present study 26 . ...

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Comparison of scenarios in the trajectory of body mass index among adolescents monitored in primary health care: the VigiNUTRI Brazil study