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Is there a relationship between body mass index and academic achievement? A meta-analysis

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BMI is weakly and negatively associated with academic achievement and such a relationship was found to be significantly moderated by regions and students' study grades.
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This article is published in Public Health.The article was published on 2019-02-01. It has received 44 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Academic achievement & Meta-analysis.

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The association between body appreciation and body mass index among males and females: A meta-analysis.

TL;DR: The results indicate that the overall negative association between body appreciation and BMI is weak among males, and slightly larger among females.
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Genetically predicted education attainment in relation to somatic and mental health.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors found that higher education level was associated with lower risk of major mental disorders and most somatic diseases, independent of intelligence, but with higher risk of obsessive-compulsive disorder, anorexia nervosa, anxiety, bipolar disorder and prostate cancer.
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Autonomic Profile, Physical Activity, Body Mass Index and Academic Performance of School Students

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the autonomic modulation, physical activity, body mass index, and academic performance of preschool and school students by grade Extracurricular physical activities, heart rate variability, and objective and subjective academic performance were analyzed in 180 preschool and primary school students (791 ± 229 years).
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The Relationship Between SNS Usage and Disordered Eating Behaviors: A Meta-Analysis.

TL;DR: In this paper, a three-level random-effects meta-analysis model was used to explore the interaction between social networking sites and eating disorder behaviors, and the results showed that the excessive use of SNSs is associated with an increased risks of disordered eating behaviors.
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Weight status or weight stigma? Obesity stereotypes-Not excess weight-Reduce working memory in school-aged children.

TL;DR: It is suggested that vulnerability to weight-related stereotype threat emerges early in life and may contribute to working memory deficits in children with obesity.
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Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses

TL;DR: A new quantity is developed, I 2, which the authors believe gives a better measure of the consistency between trials in a meta-analysis, which is susceptible to the number of trials included in the meta- analysis.
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Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test

TL;DR: Funnel plots, plots of the trials' effect estimates against sample size, are skewed and asymmetrical in the presence of publication bias and other biases Funnel plot asymmetry, measured by regression analysis, predicts discordance of results when meta-analyses are compared with single large trials.
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Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

Marie Ng, +141 more
- 30 Aug 2014 - 
TL;DR: The global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980-2013 is estimated using a spatiotemporal Gaussian process regression model to estimate prevalence with 95% uncertainty intervals (UIs).
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Trim and fill: A simple funnel-plot-based method of testing and adjusting for publication bias in meta-analysis.

TL;DR: In this paper, a rank-based data augmentation technique is proposed for estimating the number of missing studies that might exist in a meta-analysis and the effect that these studies might have had on its outcome.
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