9 Result(s)
-
Article
Open AccessSex differences in COVID-19 mortality risk in patients on kidney function replacement therapy
In the general population with COVID-19, the male sex is an established risk factor for mortality, in part due to a more robust immune response to COVID-19 in women. Because patients on kidney function replace...
-
Article
Open AccessRelative fat mass, a new index of adiposity, is strongly associated with incident heart failure: data from PREVEND
Body-mass index (BMI), waist circumference, and waist-hip ratio are commonly used anthropometric indices of adiposity. However, over the past 10 years, several new anthropometric indices were developed, that m...
-
Article
Open AccessGenome-wide association meta-analyses and fine-map** elucidate pathways influencing albuminuria
Increased levels of the urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio (UACR) are associated with higher risk of kidney disease progression and cardiovascular events, but underlying mechanisms are incompletely understood...
-
Article
Open AccessPublisher Correction: Lower body mass index and mortality in older adults starting dialysis
A correction to this article has been published and is linked from the HTML and PDF versions of this paper. The error has been fixed in the paper.
-
Article
Open AccessLower body mass index and mortality in older adults starting dialysis
Lower body mass index (BMI) has consistently been associated with mortality in elderly in the general and chronic disease populations. Remarkably, in older incident dialysis patients no association of BMI with...
-
Article
Open AccessA principal component meta-analysis on multiple anthropometric traits identifies novel loci for body shape
Large consortia have revealed hundreds of genetic loci associated with anthropometric traits, one trait at a time. We examined whether genetic variants affect body shape as a composite phenotype that is repres...
-
Article
Open AccessNew loci for body fat percentage reveal link between adiposity and cardiometabolic disease risk
To increase our understanding of the genetic basis of adiposity and its links to cardiometabolic disease risk, we conducted a genome-wide association meta-analysis of body fat percentage (BF%) in up to 100,716...
-
Article
New genetic loci link adipose and insulin biology to body fat distribution
Body fat distribution is a heritable trait and a well-established predictor of adverse metabolic outcomes, independent of overall adiposity. To increase our understanding of the genetic basis of body fat distr...
-
Article
Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology
Obesity is heritable and predisposes to many diseases. To understand the genetic basis of obesity better, here we conduct a genome-wide association study and Metabochip meta-analysis of body mass index (BMI), ...
