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Excessive Gestational Weight Gain

Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health, 2018
AbstractExcessive gestational weight gain (GWG) is associated with an increasing incidence of maternal and neonatal complications, including hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, fetal macrosomia, and increased cesarean birth rates. In the United States, it is recommended that health care providers use an individualized approach to counsel a woman about
Megan McDowell, Mary Ashley Cain, Jessica Brumley   +2 more
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Excess Body Weight and Abdominal Hernia

Visceral Medicine, 2021
<b><i>Background:</i></b> Obese patients have an increased incidence of ventral hernias; in over 50% of these cases, patients are symptomatic. At the same time, morbid obesity is a disease of epidemic proportions. The combination of symptomatic hernia and obesity is a challenge for the treating surgeon, because the risk of ...
Ulrich A. Dietz, Omar Yusef Kudsi, Fahri Gokcal, Naseem Bou-Ayash, Urs Pfefferkorn, Gottfried Rudofsky, Johannes Baur, Armin Wiegering   +7 more
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Excessive Body Weight and Diverticular Disease

Visceral Medicine, 2021
<b><i>Background:</i></b> The worldwide proportion of overweight adults almost doubled from 22% in 1975 to 39% in 2016. Comparably, for the USA and Germany in 2016, the proportion was 68 and 56.8%, respectively. In Olmsted County, Minnesota, the prevalence of diverticulitis also doubled between 1980 and 2007, from 19 to 40 ...
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Excessive weight gain during peritoneal dialysis

The International Journal of Artificial Organs, 2001
The authors carried out a retrospective chart review in 114 patients treated for at least two years at the Toronto Western Hospital Peritoneal Dialysis Unit and identified eight, who gained an “excessive” amount of weight equal to or greater than 10 kg of their initial weight.
S, Jolly, C, Chatatalsingh, J, Bargman, S, Vas, M, Chu, D G, Oreopoulos   +5 more
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Excess Body Weight

Archives of Internal Medicine, 1994
Background: Whether the association between excess body weight and dyslipidemia is consistent across different age ranges in women has yet to be determined. Methods: The relationship between body weight adjusted for height as calculated by body mass index (BMI; kilograms per square meter) and serum lipid and lipoprotein levels in white women was ...
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Glomerular hyperfiltration in excess weight adolescents

Nigerian Journal of Clinical Practice, 2019
Childhood overweight/obesity burden is on the rise worldwide. Obesity affects virtually all organs. In the kidney, glomerular hyperfiltration that manifests as elevated glomerular filtration rate is a frequent manifestation in obesity. This adaptive renal manifestation to excess metabolic demand on the kidney, in children, has been studied mainly in ...
N J, Iduoriyekemwen, M O, Ibadin, H A, Aikhionbare, S E, Idogun, M T, Abiodun   +4 more
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EXCESSIVE WEIGHT GAIN AFTER LIVER TRANSPLANTATION

Transplantation, 1991
Twenty-eight patients (19 females, 9 males) were evaluated pre- and posttransplant to determine the frequency and find predictors of excessive weight gain after orthotopic liver transplant. Posttransplant, 21 patients gained and 7 patients lost weight as compared with their pretransplant dry weight. The majority of weight gain occurred between 2 and 16
M, Palmer, F, Schaffner, S N, Thung
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Excessive maternal weight and pregnancy outcome

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1992
This study was undertaken to determine the influences of increased maternal prepregnancy weight and increased gestational weight gain on pregnancy outcome.This was a longitudinal retrospective study of 7407 term pregnancies delivered from 1987 through 1989.
J W, Johnson, J A, Longmate, B, Frentzen
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Excess weight and sleep-disordered breathing

Journal of Applied Physiology, 2005
Excess weight is a well-established predictor of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB). Clinical observations and population studies throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia have consistently shown a graded increase in the prevalence of SDB as body mass index, neck girth, or other measures of body habitus increases.
Terry, Young, Paul E, Peppard, Shahrad, Taheri   +2 more
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