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Prospective Analysis of Adiposity Metrics for Complicated Acute Colonic Diverticulitis: Should Wses Classification and Visceral Adiposity Be Integrated for Predictive Analyses?
2025-01-20
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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background:</bold> Colonic diverticulitis is correlated with age, body mass index (BMI), and increased visceral or subcutaneous fat. Obesity contributes to diverticulosis, diverticulitis and its complications onset, as visceral fat activates inflammatory pathways that exacerbate these conditions. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association of visceral adiposity and body...
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- Literature Corpus work
- ba29ae98-1c02-51a2-90fd-019c8bf3c160
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-5828685/v1
