Serum Fatty Acids, Desaturase Activities and Abdominal Obesity - A Population-Based Study of 60-Year Old Men and Women. [PDF]
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 +11 more
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Adipose Tissue Distribution and Survival Among Women with Nonmetastatic Breast Cancer. [PDF]
ObjectivePrevious studies of breast cancer survival have not considered specific depots of adipose tissue such as subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) and visceral adipose tissue (VAT).MethodsThis study assessed these relationships among 3,235 women with ...
Albers, Kathleen B +6 more
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Positive association of unhealthy plant-based diets with the incidence of abdominal obesity in Korea: a comparison of baseline, most recent, and cumulative average diets [PDF]
OBJECTIVES Different approaches for analyzing repeated dietary measurements may yield differences in the magnitude and interpretation of findings. We aimed to compare 3 dietary measurements (baseline, most recent, and cumulative average) in terms of the ...
Sukyoung Jung, Sohyun Park
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The association between cardiorespiratory fitness and cardiometabolic risk in children is mediated by abdominal adiposity: the HAPPY study [PDF]
Background: It is unclear whether cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) is independently linked to cardiometabolic risk in children. This study investigated a) the association between CRF level and presence of cardiometabolic risk disorders using health ...
Bailey, Daniel Paul +3 more
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Intra‐abdominal pressure, sagittal abdominal diameter and obesity comorbidity [PDF]
Objectives. To determine relationship of intraabdominal pressure to central obesity and the comorbidity of obesity. Design. Non‐randomized, prospective. Setting. University hospital, operating room. Subjects. Eighty‐four anaesthetized consecutive patients prior to gastric bypass for morbid obesity and five non‐obese patients before colectomy for ...
H, Sugerman +3 more
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Objective Latin American countries are experiencing a nutritional and demographic transition that predisposes to the spread of the obesity epidemic, especially among the socially and economically disadvantaged.
Mario A. Jiménez-Mora +4 more
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Expanding evidence for the multiple dangers of epidemic abdominal obesity [PDF]
The waistline of America has been expanding now for decades,1 largely as a consequence of an obesogenic environment, with a car-worshipping culture and take-away lifestyle par excellence.2 No upper limit to the prevalence or extent of obesity is yet ...
Adrian J. Cameron, Mph Paul, Z. Zimmet
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Background The 2023 Obesity Fact Sheet aims to present an updated overview of obesity prevalence across all age groups, including children and adolescents. Methods This study included individuals aged ≥20 years (n=16,941,423 in 2021) who underwent health
Su-Min Jeong +8 more
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Body composition and body fat distribution are related to cardiac autonomic control in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease patients [PDF]
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Heart rate recovery (HRR), a cardiac autonomic control marker, was shown to be related to body composition (BC), yet this was not tested in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) patients.
B Fernhall +58 more
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The prevalence of general and abdominal obesity has increased rapidly in China. The aims of this study were to estimate the dynamic prevalence of overweight, general obesity, and abdominal obesity and the distribution of body mass index (BMI) and waist ...
Yongjie Chen +5 more
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