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ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Are Higher Body Mass Index and Worse Metabolic Parameters Associated with More Aggressive Differentiated Thyroid Cancer? A Retrospective Cohort Study.

Yasmin Abu Arar, Michael Shilo, Natalya Bilenko, Michael Friger, Hagit Marsha, David Fisher, Merav Fraenkel, Uri Yoel

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Article in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yasmin Abu ArarInternal Medicine Ward D, Soroka University Medical Center, Beer-Sheva 84101, Israel.
Michael ShiloDepartment of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Community Health, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84015, Israel.ORCID 0000-0003-1209-3980
Natalya BilenkoDepartment of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Community Health, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84015, Israel.
Michael FrigerDepartment of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Community Health, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84015, Israel.
Hagit MarshaFaculty of Health Sciences, Goldman Medical School, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84015, Israel.
David FisherEndocrinology Unit, Soroka University Medical Center, Beer-Sheva 84101, Israel.
Merav FraenkelEndocrinology Unit, Soroka University Medical Center, Beer-Sheva 84101, Israel.
Uri YoelEndocrinology Unit, Soroka University Medical Center, Beer-Sheva 84101, Israel.ORCID 0000-0003-3805-3565
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev · ILSoroka Medical Center · IL

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Obesity is a risk factor for differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC), but the association with DTC aggressiveness is controversial. To evaluate the association between preoperative body mass index (BMI)/other metabolic parameters and DTC aggressiveness in our surgical cohort, we retrospectively evaluated patients following thyroid surgery who were diagnosed with DTC between December 2013 and January 2021. Baseline characteristics, histopathological features, treatment modalities, and follow-up data were studied. We conducted logistic regression to analyze the association between BMI/other metabolic parameters and adverse DTC features. The final study cohort included 211 patients (79.6% women; mean age± standard deviation 48.7 ± 15.9 years): 66 (31.3%) with normal weight, 81 (38.4%) with overweight, and 64 (30.3%) with obesity. The median follow-up was 51 months (range 7-93). Complete versus partial thyroidectomy was more common among patients living with overweight or obesity than in normal weight patients (79.7% versus 61.7%,

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body mass index (BMI)differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC)metabolic syndromeobesitypapillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC)PTC histological variantstriglycerides/high-density lipoprotein (HDL)–cholesterol ratio

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PMID38470692
PMCPMC10930676
OpenAlexW4392381924

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