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| العنوان: | The Impact of Access on |
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| المؤلفون: | Mei R. Fu, Deborah Axelrod, Amber A. Guth, Jason Fletcher, Jeanna M. Qiu, Joan Scagliola, Robin Kleinman, Caitlin E. Ryan, Nicholas Chan, Judith Haber |
| المساهمون: | The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| المصدر: | http://www.mdpi.com/2075-4426/5/3/326/pdf/. |
| سنة النشر: | 2002 |
| المجموعة: | CiteSeerX |
| الوصف: | Obesity is one of the risk factors for developing lymphedema following breast cancer treatment. We prospectively enrolled 140 women and followed the participants for 12 months after surgery to investigate patterns of obesity and lymph fluid level in the first year of cancer treatment. Electrical bioimpedance devices were used to measure weight, BMI, and percent of body fat as well as lymph fluid level. General instructions were given to the participants on maintaining pre-surgery weight. Among the 140 participants, 136 completed the study with 2.9 % attrition. More than 60 % of the participants were obese (30.8%) or overweight (32.4%), while only two participants were underweight and about 35 % had normal weight. This pattern of obesity and overweight was consistent at 4–8 weeks and 12 months post-surgery. At 12 months post-surgery, the majority of the women (72.1%) maintained pre-surgery weight and 15.4 % had>5 % weight loss; 12.5 % of the women increase>5 % of their weight. Significantly more patients in the obesity group had |
| نوع الوثيقة: | text |
| اللغة: | English |
| Relation: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.697.5247; http://www.mdpi.com/2075-4426/5/3/326/pdf/ |
| الاتاحة: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.697.5247 http://www.mdpi.com/2075-4426/5/3/326/pdf/ |
| Rights: | Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.2FE4E0F1 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| الوصف غير متاح. |