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Socioeconomic disparities in abdominal obesity over the life course in China

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2018
Background Abdominal obesity has become an important public health issue in China. Socioeconomic disparities are thought to be closely related to the prevalence of abdominal obesity.
Panpan Zhao, Xiaoli Gu, Dongfu Qian, Fan Yang, for the Healthy Aging and Development Study Group in Nanjing Medical University, and for the Data Mining Group of Biomedical Big Data in Nanjing Medical University   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Serum Fatty Acids, Desaturase Activities and Abdominal Obesity - A Population-Based Study of 60-Year Old Men and Women. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
Abdominal obesity is a key contributor of metabolic disease. Recent trials suggest that dietary fat quality affects abdominal fat content, where palmitic acid and linoleic acid influence abdominal obesity differently, while effects of n-3 polyunsaturated
Zayed D Alsharari, Ulf Risérus, Karin Leander, Per Sjögren, Axel C Carlsson, Max Vikström, Federica Laguzzi, Bruna Gigante, Tommy Cederholm, Ulf De Faire, Mai-Lis Hellénius, Matti Marklund   +11 more
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Television viewing time and risk of incident obesity and central obesity: the English longitudinal study of ageing [PDF]

, 2015
Background Research suggests television viewing time may be associated with incident obesity and central obesity in young adults. No study has investigated these associations in older English adults.
Fisher, A, Lee Smith, Abigail Fisher, Mark Hamer, Smith, L, Hamer, M   +5 more
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Genetic variants in lipid metabolism are independently associated with multiple features of the metabolic syndrome [PDF]

, 2011
Background Our objective was to find single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), within transcriptional pathways of glucose and lipid metabolism, which are related to multiple features of the metabolic syndrome (MetS).
Boer, J.M., Dollé Martijn ET, Boer Jolanda MA, Feskens Edith JM, Martijn ET Dollé, Edith JM Feskens, Imholz, S., Feskens, E.J.M., Sandra Imholz, Povel, C.M., Cécile M Povel, Jolanda MA Boer, Imholz Sandra, Povel Cécile M, Dolle, M.E.   +14 more
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Is vulnerability to cardiometabolic disease in Indians mediated by abdominal adiposity or higher body adiposity. [PDF]

, 2014
BACKGROUND: Indians may be particularly vulnerable to cardiometabolic disease, potentially due to higher body fat for a given BMI, or a tendency towards depositing abdominal adiposity.
Davey-Smith, George, Gupta, Ruby, Kuper, Hannah, Wells, Jonathan, Krishna, Kankipati Vijay, Davey Smith, George, Krishna, Kankipati Vijay Radha, Kulkarni, Bharati, Prabhakaran, Dorairaj, Taylor, Amy, Ben-Shlomo, Yoav, Kinra, Sanjay, Ebrahim, Shah   +12 more
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Trends in the prevalence of overweight, obesity, and abdominal obesity among Chinese adults between 1993 and 2015.

, 2021
Most previous studies on trends in the prevalence of obesity or abdominal obesity in Chinese adults were based on regional data and/or short time intervals, and recent trends are not available.
Ma, S., Xi, B., Zhao, M., Sun, J., Yang, L., Bovet, P.   +5 more
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Association between Abdominal Obesity and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Adults with Normal Body Mass Index: Based on the Sixth Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

Journal of Obesity & Metabolic Syndrome, 2019
Background : Abdominal obesity predisposes individuals to cardiovascular disease, but the data in adults with normal body mass index (BMI) are relatively rare.
Hye Yun Kim, Jae Kyung Kim, Gook Gyeon Shin, Jin Ah Han, Jin Wook Kim   +4 more
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Abdominal obesity exhibits distinct effect on inflammatory and anti-inflammatory proteins in apparently healthy Japanese men

Cardiovascular Diabetology, 2007
Background Since visceral fat tissue is known to release various inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines, abdominal obesity may play a key role in the inflammation associated with metabolic syndrome (MetS).
Sugita Yoshiro, Moriyama Toshiki, Nishida Makoto, Yamauchi-Takihara Keiko   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Generalised and abdominal obesity and risk of diabetes, hypertension and hypertension–diabetes co-morbidity in England [PDF]

, 2008
Objectives To look at trends in generalised (body mass index (BMI) ≥30 kg m–2) and abdominal (waist circumference (WC) >102 cm in men, >88 cm in women) obesity among adults between 1993 and 2003, and to evaluate their association with diabetes ...
Hirani, V., Zaninotto, P., Primatesta, P.   +2 more
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Evaluating the effect of γ‐oryzanol on MASLD pathology using a medaka fish model

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
This study explores a liver disease called MASLD, which is increasing worldwide and can lead to serious damage. Researchers used medaka fish instead of rodents to test a food compound, γ‐oryzanol. Fish fed this compound had less liver fat and healthier gut bacteria.
Yukako Ito, Haduki Asano, Ayano Ueki, Joe Sakamoto, Yasuhiro Kamei, Hayato Tokumoto, Ayaka Yazawa, Shigeki Kamitani   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source