Claire Cook

Mar 10, 2025 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Hailey R. Banack |Christopher Kim |Claire Cook |Alexandra Wasser

What is already known? BMI is an inexpensive and easy-to-use tool to assess body weight scaled by height. The use of a BMI cut point of 30 kg/m2 to define obesity in all adults does not reflect our current understanding of changes in body weight that occur with the aging process or sex differences in adiposity. Older adults experience many physical changes in late life, but these are not considered when using standard BMI categories to assess obesity. What does this study add?

Jun 10, 2024 | medrxiv.org | Liqin Wang |John Novoa-Laurentiev |Claire Cook |Shruthi Srivatsan

ZSW reports research support from Amgen, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Principia/Sanofi, consulting fees from Amgen, Viela Bio, Horizon, Zenas Biopharma, PPD, and MedPace, and has served on advisory boards for Amgen, Horizon, Novartis, Sanofi, Shinogi, and Visterra/Otsuka. All other authors report no disclosures. Authors of this work are supported by the National Institutes of Health [grant numbers K23AR073334, R03AR078938, L30AR070520, R03AR078938, K99AG075190].

Aug 8, 2023 | acrjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Zachary S. Wallace |Rheumatology Unit |Xiaoqing Fu |Claire Cook

Full Length The data reported herein have been supplied by the United States Renal Data System (USRDS). The interpretation and reporting of these data are the responsibility of the authors and do not represent the official policy or interpretation of the US Government. Dr. Wallace is supported by the NIH/NIAMS (grants K23AR073334 and R03AR078938) and the Rheumatology Research Foundation (award K Supplement).