Are adolescent weight-related problems and general well-being essentially an issue of age, gender or rather a pubertal timing issue?
Pubertal timing, and not age in itself, appears as the turning point for gender dissimilarities. Both gender- and age-specific differences as well as pubertal timing have to be taken into account by any physician when assessing an adolescent in order to be able to adapt the intervention.
Metabolic syndrome was associated with a better tumor cell differentiation in patients with early stage gastric cancer. Moreover, metabolic syndrome was a significant and independent predictor for better survival in patients with old age or proximal tumors.