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The independent association of overweight and obesity with breathlessness in adults: a cross-sectional, population-based study [PDF]

, 2017
Obesity is an independent risk factor for chronic breathlessness and should be assessed in people with this ...
Currow, David C., Dal Grande, Eleonora, Ekström, Magnus, Johnson, Miriam J., Sidhu, Calvin   +4 more
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Irritable bowel syndrome-like symptoms and health related quality of life two years after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass - a prospective cohort study

BMC Gastroenterology, 2019
Background Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is prevalent in patients with morbid obesity. After Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) chronic abdominal pain is common, however the etiology is largely unknown. We aimed to study the change in the prevalence of IBS-
Ingvild Kristine Blom-Høgestøl, Martin Aasbrenn, Monica Chahal-Kummen, Cathrine Brunborg, Inger Eribe, Jon Kristinsson, Per G. Farup, Tom Mala   +7 more
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Adjusting for reverse causation to estimate the effect of obesity on mortality after incident heart failure in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study [PDF]

Epidemiology and Health, 2016
OBJECTIVES: The lower mortality rate of obese patients with heart failure (HF) has been partly attributed to reverse causation bias due to weight loss caused by disease.
Maryam Shakiba, Hamid Soori, Mohammad Ali Mansournia, Seyed Saeed Hashemi Nazari, Yahya Salimi   +4 more
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Trabecular Bone Score and Bone Mineral Density in Postmenopausal Women with Morbid Obesity—A Clinical Paradox

Medical Sciences, 2021
Obesity has long been considered to have a protective effect on bone, but specific complications in those with morbid obesity are known to have a detrimental impact on bone architecture.
Antresa Jose, Kripa Elizabeth Cherian, Munaf Babajan Nandyal, Stephen A. Jiwanmall, Dheeraj Kattula, Thomas V. Paul, Nitin Kapoor   +6 more
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Morbid obesity in women on the rise : an observational, population-based study [PDF]

, 2013
Background The obesity epidemic is generally monitored by the proportion of the population whose body mass index (BMI) exceeds 30 kg/m2 but this masks the growing proportion of those who are morbidly obese.
Brennan, Sharon L., Kotowicz, Mark A., Pasco, Julie A.   +2 more
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Abdominal pain and symptoms before and after Roux‐en‐Y gastric bypass

BJS Open, 2019
Background Despite increased emphasis on patient‐reported outcomes, few studies have focused on abdominal pain symptoms before and after Roux‐en‐Y gastric bypass (RYGB).
M. Chahal‐Kummen, I. K. Blom‐Høgestøl, I. Eribe, O. Klungsøyr, J. Kristinsson, T. Mala   +5 more
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Atherogenic Index of Plasma (AIP) a Tool to Assess Changes in Cardiovascular Disease Risk Post Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy

Journal of Diabetes Research, 2020
Predictive indices like the atherogenic index of plasma (AIP) have been developed to estimate the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Metabolic surgery is the most effective treatment for a rapid improvement of morbid obesity and its comorbidities such
Eman Al Shawaf, Ebaa Al-Ozairi, Fahad Al-Asfar, Anwar Mohammad, Shaima Al-Beloushi, Sriraman Devarajan, Fahd Al-Mulla, Jehad Abubaker, Hossein Arefanian   +8 more
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Adipokine profile in long-term juvenile dermatomyositis, and associations with adipose tissue distribution and cardiac function: a cross-sectional study

RMD Open, 2023
Objectives In long-term juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM), altered adipose tissue distribution and subclinical cardiac dysfunction have been described. Our aims were to compare adipokine levels in patients with JDM after long-term disease with controls, and
Øyvind Molberg, Thomas Schwartz, Helga Sanner, Berit Flatø, Ivar Sjaastad, Henriette Schermacher Marstein, Birgit Nomeland Witczak, Kristin Godang, Nicoleta Christina Olarescu, Jens Bollerslev   +9 more
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Association of Physical Activity with Co-morbid Conditions in Geriatric Population [PDF]

, 2016
To find out association of physical activity with co-morbid conditions in geriatric population, a cross-sectional study was conducted in different cties of Pakistan in 2015.
Hisam, A. (Aliya), Ilyas, S. (Sundus), Jabbar, A. (Anosha), Kazmi, S. A. (Syed), Khan, R. (Rimsha), Mushtaq, U. (Umer), Rahman, M. U. (Mahmood)   +6 more
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Morbid Obesity in Women Is Associated with an Altered Intestinal Expression of Genes Related to Cancer Risk and Immune, Defensive, and Antimicrobial Response

Biomedicines, 2022
Background: Little is known about the relation between morbid obesity and duodenal transcriptomic changes. We aimed to identify intestinal genes that may be associated with the development of obesity regardless of the degree of insulin resistance (IR) of
Ailec Ho-Plágaro, Cristina Rodríguez-Díaz, Concepción Santiago-Fernández, Carlos López-Gómez, Sara García-Serrano, Flores Martín-Reyes, Francisca Rodríguez-Pacheco, Alberto Rodríguez-Cañete, Guillermo Alcaín-Martínez, Luis Vázquez-Pedreño, Sergio Valdés, Lourdes Garrido-Sánchez, Eduardo García-Fuentes   +12 more
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