Xiu Huang, Yali Han, Jie Yang, Le Bu, Xiaoyun Cheng, Xiaojuan Zha, Haibing Chen, Yueye Huang, Shen Qu
PURPOSE: To investigate the impact of body mass index (BMI) on the aggressiveness of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC). METHODS: A total of 1720 PTC patients with total thyroidectomy or lobectomy, from January 2017 to April 2020, were retrospectively evaluated. Based on BMI, they were divided into two groups, as follows: control (CON, < 24 kg/m2 ) and overweight and obesity (OB, ≥ 24 kg/m2 ), each sex being analyzed separately...
December 19, 2023: Hormones: International Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism