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Association Between Neighborhood Factors and Adult Obesity in Shelby County, Tennessee: Geospatial Machine Learning Approach [PDF]

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance 2022;8(8):e37039, 2022
Obesity is a global epidemic causing at least 2.8 million deaths per year. This complex disease is associated with significant socioeconomic burden, reduced work productivity, unemployment, and other social determinants of Health (SDoH) disparities.
arxiv   +1 more source

Aglycemic growth enhances carbohydrate metabolism and induces sensitivity to menadione in cultured tumor-derived cells

Cancer & Metabolism, 2021
Background Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most prevalent form of liver malignancy and carries poor prognoses due to late presentation of symptoms.
Cameron A. Schmidt, Kelsey L. McLaughlin, Ilya N. Boykov, Rafiq Mojalagbe, Arthi Ranganathan, Katherine A. Buddo, Chien-Te Lin, Kelsey H. Fisher-Wellman, P. Darrell Neufer   +8 more
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The pesticide chlorpyrifos promotes obesity by inhibiting diet-induced thermogenesis in brown adipose tissue

Nature Communications, 2021
Chlorpyrifos is a widely-used pesticide and a common residue on vegetables and fruits. Here the authors show that at non-neurotoxic doses, chlorpyrifos reduces energy expenditure, by inhibiting diet induced thermogenesis, and promotes obesity and insulin
Bo Wang, Evangelia E. Tsakiridis, Shuman Zhang, Andrea Llanos, Eric M. Desjardins, Julian M. Yabut, Alexander E. Green, Emily A. Day, Brennan K. Smith, James S. V. Lally, Jianhan Wu, Amogelang R. Raphenya, Krishna A. Srinivasan, Andrew G. McArthur, Shingo Kajimura, Jagdish Suresh Patel, Michael G. Wade, Katherine M. Morrison, Alison C. Holloway, Gregory R. Steinberg   +19 more
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To Be or Not To Be—Obese [PDF]

Endocrinology, 2011
The prevalence of obesity in westernized societies is now considered by epidemiologists to be at an epidemic level. Slightly over a third of adult Americans are considered obese because they have a body mass index of more than 30 kg/m2 (1). Additionally, the percentage of the U.S.
Josephine M. Egan, Stuart Maudsley, Bronwen Martin   +2 more
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Diabetic ketoacidosis as first presentation of latent autoimmune diabetes in adults in a patient with hashitoxicosis as first presentation of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2022
Background Latent autoimmune diabetes in adults is an infrequent form of autoimmune diabetes mellitus, while Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, the most common thyroid disease in adults, rarely manifests as thyrotoxicosis.
Maria Xenou, Ioannis Zoupas, Dimitrios Lygnos, Evangelos Fousteris   +3 more
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Association between hepatic steatosis and fibrosis with measures of insulin sensitivity in patients with severe obesity and type 2 diabetes - a cross-sectional study

BMC Gastroenterology, 2022
Background Obesity, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and insulin resistance are three pathological conditions highly correlated, but this relationship is not fully elucidated.
Kathrine Aglen Seeberg, Dag Hofsø, Heidi Borgeraas, John Olav Grimnes, Farhat Fatima, Lars Thomas Seeberg, Nils Petter Kvan, Marius Svanevik, Jens Kristoffer Hertel, Jøran Hjelmesæth   +9 more
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Childhood obesity [PDF]

BMJ, 2006
Obesity, an excessive body fat content with increased risk of morbidity, has become increasingly common in children and adolescents. Confusion exists, however, over basic questions such as whether paediatric obesity matters, how to diagnose it, and whether it should be treated (and if so, how best to do this).
Reilly, J. J, Wilson, D.
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Preventing White Adipocyte Browning during Differentiation In Vitro: The Effect of Differentiation Protocols on Metabolic and Mitochondrial Phenotypes

Stem Cells International, 2022
Mitochondrial dysfunction in white adipose tissue is strongly associated with obesity and its metabolic complications, which are important health challenges worldwide.
Elena Herbers, Mimmi Patrikoski, Anita Wagner, Riikka Jokinen, Antti Hassinen, Sini Heinonen, Susanna Miettinen, Hilkka Peltoniemi, Eija Pirinen, Kirsi H. Pietiläinen   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prevalence of childhood and adult obesity in the United States, 2011-2012.

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2014
IMPORTANCE More than one-third of adults and 17% of youth in the United States are obese, although the prevalence remained stable between 2003-2004 and 2009-2010.
Cynthia L Ogden, M. Carroll, Brian K. Kit, K. Flegal   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Fuzzy logic as a decision-making support system for the indication of bariatric surgery based on an index (MAFOI) generated by the association between body fat and body mass index. [PDF]

, 2011
Background: A fuzzy obesity index (MAFOI) for use as an alternative to bariatric surgery indication (BSI) is presented. The search for a more accurate method to evaluate obesity and to indicate a better treatment is important in the world health context.
Joao L. M. C. Azevedo, José, Susana A. Miyahira   +2 more
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