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Volume 4 (2008), Issue 2 (February)

1. Joint effects of tobacco use and body mass on all-cause mortality in Mumbai, India: results from a population-based cohort study.
   Am J Epidemiol, 167(3): 330-40. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Long-term effects of a diet loosely restricting carbohydrates on HbA1c levels, BMI and tapering of sulfonylureas in type 2 diabetes: a 2-year follow-up study.
   Diabetes Res Clin Pract, 79(2): 350-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Does home-based exercise improve body mass index in patients with type 2 diabetes? Results of a feasibility trial.
   Diabetes Res Clin Pract, 79(2): 230-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. Cerebral arterial pulsatility and insulin resistance in type 2 diabetic patients.
   Diabetes Res Clin Pract, 79(2): 237-42. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Three-dimensional morphometric analysis of craniofacial shape in the unaffected relatives of individuals with nonsyndromic orofacial clefts: a possible marker for genetic susceptibility.
   Am J Med Genet A, 146(4): 409-20. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Anthropometric correlates of blood pressure in normotensive Pakistani subjects.
   Int J Cardiol, 124(2): 259-62. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Leptin and leptin receptor genotypes and colon cancer: gene-gene and gene-lifestyle interactions.
   Int J Cancer, 122(7): 1611-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Esophageal cancer and body mass index: results from a prospective study of 220,000 men in China and a meta-analysis of published studies.
   Int J Cancer, 122(7): 1604-10. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Expression of subcutaneous adipose tissue phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase correlates with body mass index in nondiabetic women.
   Metabolism, 57(3): 367-72. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Stature in archeological samples from central Italy: methodological issues and diachronic changes.
    Am J Phys Anthropol, 135(3): 284-92. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Local features for enhancement and minutiae extraction in fingerprints.
    IEEE Trans Image Process, 17(3): 354-63. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. GnRH agonist versus GnRH antagonist in ovarian stimulation: the influence of body mass index on in vitro fertilization outcome.
    Fertil Steril, 89(2): 472-4. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Maximum confidence hidden markov modeling for face recognition.
    IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell, 30(4): 606-16. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Body-mass index and incidence of cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective observational studies.
    Lancet, 371(9612): 569-78. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Leptin levels among prepubertal children with Down syndrome compared with their siblings.
    J Pediatr, 152(3): 321-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Factors associated with misperception of weight in the stroke belt.
    J Gen Intern Med, 23(3): 323-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Influence of body mass index and total testosterone level on biochemical recurrence following radical prostatectomy.
    Jpn J Clin Oncol, 38(2): 129-33. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Measuring body mass index (BMI) in nursing home residents: the usefulness of measurement of arm span.
    Scand J Prim Health Care, 26(1): 46-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. Disentangling the effects of racial and weight discrimination on body mass index and obesity among Asian Americans.
    Am J Public Health, 98(3): 493-500. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. I think therefore I am: perceived ideal weight as a determinant of health.
    Am J Public Health, 98(3): 501-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Body mass index, blood pressure, and mortality from stroke: a nationally representative prospective study of 212,000 Chinese men.
    Stroke, 39(3): 753-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Low body mass not vitamin D receptor polymorphisms predict osteoporosis in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
    Aliment Pharmacol Ther, 27(7): 588-96. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. The effect of age, gender, and body mass index on the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of vildagliptin in healthy volunteers.
    Br J Clin Pharmacol, 65(3): 338-46. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. Association of cyclin D1 G870A polymorphism with uterine leiomyoma in women whose body mass index values are above 25 kg/m2.
    Hum Reprod, 23(3): 525-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. The significance of intraoperative measurements in acquired ptosis surgery.
    Orbit, 27(1): 13-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. Adiposity, physical activity, and pancreatic cancer in the National Institutes of Health-AARP Diet and Health Cohort.
    Am J Epidemiol, 167(5): 586-97. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. Oxidative stress and inflammation are associated with adiposity in moderate to severe CKD.
    J Am Soc Nephrol, 19(3): 593-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
28. Effect of neighborhood exposures on changes in weight among women in Cebu, Philippines (1983-2002).
    Am J Epidemiol, 167(5): 615-23. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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