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Pretreatment BMI Is Associated with Aggressive Clinicopathological Features of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: A Multicenter Study.

Shi-Tong YuWanzhi ChenQian CaiFaya LiangDebin XuPing HanJi-Chun YuXiaoming Huang
Published in: International journal of endocrinology (2017)
A higher pretreatment BMI has been strongly associated with aggressive features of PTC according to the BMI classification for Asians. Obesity was not found to be associated with a greater risk of recurrence.
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