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Excess body weight in children may increase the length of hospital stay
Clinics, 2015 OBJECTIVES: To investigate the prevalence of excess body weight in the pediatric ward of University Hospital and to test both the association between initial nutritional diagnosis and the length of stay and the in-hospital variation in nutritional status.
Maria Teresa Bechere Fernandes +3 more
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Preventing Excessive Weight Gain [PDF]
Obesity Research, 2005 ,Brownetal.(1)providemore evidence that the obesity epidemic has arisen fromgradual weight gain in the population produced by verysmall degrees of energy imbalance. The authors followedover 8000 middle-aged women in Australia for more than 5years, from 1996 to 2001. They found that the womengained an average of 0.5 kg/yr.
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OncoImmunology, 2020 Immunotherapy is an effective treatment in advanced cancer, although predictors of response are limited. We studied whether excess weight influences the efficacy outcomes of immunotherapy.
Jacobo Rogado +17 more
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Circular belt lipectomy : a retrospective follow-up study on perioperative complications and cosmetic outcome [PDF]
, 2005 The purpose of this study was to evaluate the perioperative complications and cosmetic outcomes of circumferential belt lipectomy in patients with evident truncal excess.
Hofer, Stefan +2 more
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Improving Body Mass Index in Students with Excess Weight through a Physical Activity Programme
Children, 2022 The obesity epidemic among young people can be tackled through regular physical activity. For this purpose, we developed and implemented a physical activity programme (PAP) that we carried out in students’ free time during the school year 2018–2019.
Mădălina Doiniţa Scurt +2 more
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Weight bias and weight stigma in the healthcare system: hypothetical case
Revista de Bioética y Derecho, 2018 Obesity is considered as one of the most concerning nutritional diseases. Scientific evidence demonstrates that weight is determined by a complex interaction of internal and external factors, many of which are not controllable by individuals.
Santiago Peregalli Politi
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Peculiarities of Teaching Problems of Metabolic Syndrome in Children to Interns
Galician Medical Journal, 2017 Obesity has become one of the most urgent social problems worldwide. Continuous and rapid increase in obesity rates is considered by the World Health Organization as a global epidemic.
Olha Bobrykovych
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Differences in Bleeding Episodes in Severe Hemophilia A Based on Nutritional Status
Althea Medical Journal, 2020 Background: Hemophilia A is a congenital bleeding disorder caused by the deficiency of coagulation factor VIII and is characterized by joint bleeding, especially in weight-bearing joints. An excess weight may cause bleeding in hemophilia due to increased
Wenny Simamora +2 more
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Excessive Body Weight in Older Adults [PDF]
Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 2015 The health challenges prompted by obesity in the older adult population are poorly recognized and understudied. A defined treatment of geriatric obesity is difficult to establish, as it must take into account biological heterogeneity, age-related comorbidities, and functional limitations (sarcopenia/dynapenia). This retrospective article highlights the
Kathryn N, Porter Starr, Connie W, Bales
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Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring greatly improves diagnostic accuracy in excess and normal weight children [PDF]
Romanian Journal of Pediatrics, 2020 Introduction. Given the significant levels of pediatric excess weight worldwide, we sought to identify the prevalence of abnormally high BP levels (based on auscultatory measurements and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring – ABPM) in a cohort of excess
Cristina Ramona Rădulescu +5 more
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