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Personalized Precision in Healthcare Payment Systems: Insights From a Real‐World Cancer Patients Cohort Study

Health Care Science, EarlyView.
We developed an effective prediction model for reasonably high hospitalization costs, using gastric cancer surgery patients as an example. Integrating this assessment into the healthcare payment system based on diagnosis‐related groups is expected to improve the individualization and precision of health insurance fund utilization.
Kan Xue, Hongrui Tian, Qi Wang, Yinkui Wang, Fei Shan, Yansui Yang, Miao Yu, Zhonghu He, Ziyu Li, Jiafu Ji   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Changes in the Prevalences of Obesity, Abdominal Obesity, and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease among Korean Children during the COVID-19 Outbreak. [PDF]

Yonsei Med J, 2023
Song K, Yang J, Lee HS, Kim SJ, Lee M, Suh J, Kwon A, Kim HS, Chae HW.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Prevalence of Overweight, Obesity, and Abdominal Obesity in Polish Adults: Sociodemographic Analysis from the 2016–2020 National Health Program

Introduction: Excessive body weight, particularly the abdominal distribution of adipose tissue, has remained an important public health concern for years.
Alicja Kucharska, Filip Raciborski, Iwona Traczyk, Mariusz Wyleżoł, Bolesław Samoliński, Beata I. Sińska, Mariusz Panczyk, Dorota Szostak-Węgierek, Piotr Samel-Kowalik, Anna Kłak   +9 more
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A Prediction Model for One‐Year Disability Risk Among Community‐Dwelling Older Adults in China: Integrating Physical, Metabolic, and Psychosocial Factors

Health Care Science, EarlyView.
Based on a prospective cohort of 1003 older adults, we developed and validated a practical disability prediction model integrating physical, metabolic, and psychosocial factors (AUC = 0.716), presented via a user‐friendly nomogram for community use. ABSTRACT Background Disability in older adults, characterized by progressive limitations in performing ...
Yanjun Ma, Chaofan Geng, Zhibin Wang, Yiwei Zhao, Lixin Ma, Pengpeng Ye, Leilei Duan, Guoping Peng, Yi Tang   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The prevalence of general obesity, abdominal obesity, and hypertension and its related risk factors among young adult students in Bangladesh. [PDF]

J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich), 2022
Ali N, Mahmud F, Akter SA, Islam S, Sumon AH, Barman DN, Islam F.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Beyond Tobacco Prevention: The Effects of Tobacco 21 Laws on Young Adults' Body Weight

Health Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tobacco 21 (T21) laws effectively reduce youth tobacco use by preventing initiation. This study examines their impact on body weight among young adults aged 18–20. Using 2009–2019 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data and a two‐way fixed‐effects difference‐in‐differences (DID) design, we find limited evidence of broad weight changes ...
Qihua Qiu, Jaesang Sung
wiley   +1 more source

An Obesity Dietary Quality Index Predicts Abdominal Obesity in Women: Potential Opportunity for New Prevention and Treatment Paradigms

Journal of Obesity, 2010
Background. Links between dietary quality and abdominal obesity are poorly understood. Objective. To examine the association between an obesity-specific dietary quality index and abdominal obesity risk in women. Methods.
Dolores M. Wolongevicz, Lei Zhu, Michael J. Pencina, Ruth W. Kimokoti, P. K. Newby, Ralph B. D'Agostino, Barbara E. Millen   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

The public health impact of obesity

, 2001
The prevalence of obesity (severe overweight) has been increasing in western societies during the last decades. Epidemiological studies to the public health impact of obesity are therefore warranted.
Visscher, T.L.S.
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Adipose tissue NAD+-homeostasis, sirtuins and poly(ADP-ribose) polymerases -important players in mitochondrial metabolism and metabolic health

Redox Biology, 2017
Obesity, a chronic state of energy overload, is characterized by adipose tissue dysfunction that is considered to be the major driver for obesity associated metabolic complications.
Riikka Jokinen, Sini Pirnes-Karhu, Kirsi H. Pietiläinen, Eija Pirinen   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Obesity, Abdominal Obesity and Chronic Kidney Disease in Young Adults: A Nationwide Population-Based Cohort Study. [PDF]

J Clin Med, 2021
Bae EH, Lim SY, Jung JH, Oh TR, Choi HS, Kim CS, Ma SK, Han KD, Kim SW.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source