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Association between Abdominal Obesity and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Adults with Normal Body Mass Index: Based on the Sixth Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

Journal of Obesity & Metabolic Syndrome, 2019
Background : Abdominal obesity predisposes individuals to cardiovascular disease, but the data in adults with normal body mass index (BMI) are relatively rare.
Hye Yun Kim, Jae Kyung Kim, Gook Gyeon Shin, Jin Ah Han, Jin Wook Kim   +4 more
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Abdominal obesity exhibits distinct effect on inflammatory and anti-inflammatory proteins in apparently healthy Japanese men

Cardiovascular Diabetology, 2007
Background Since visceral fat tissue is known to release various inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines, abdominal obesity may play a key role in the inflammation associated with metabolic syndrome (MetS).
Sugita Yoshiro, Moriyama Toshiki, Nishida Makoto, Yamauchi-Takihara Keiko   +3 more
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Clinical problems caused by obesity [PDF]

, 2010
Over the past few decades the incidence of obesity has doubled worldwide and current estimates classify more than 1.5 billion adults as overweight and at least 500 million of them as clinically obese, with body mass index (BMI) over 25 kg/m2 and 30 kg ...
Weickert, Martin O., Kyrou, Ioannis
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Dietary fat intake and obesity : an empirical study in Greek adults. [PDF]

The empirical evidence concerning the associations between diet, particularly fat intake, and obesity is inconclusive. The aim of the present study was to investigate cross-sectional associations between general and central ...
Lagiou, Areti
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Reduced‐Port Versus Multi‐Port Laparoscopic Colectomy for Colorectal Cancer: A Systematic Review, Meta‐Analysis, and Meta‐Regression

Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
Reduced‐port laparoscopic colectomy (RPLC) for colorectal cancer offers modest intraoperative benefits, including shorter operative time and lower blood loss, while maintaining comparable postoperative recovery, lymph node yield, and complication rates to multi‐port laparoscopic colectomy (MPLC).
Ayesha Shaukat, Saad Ashraf, Hamza Irfan, Muhammad Shahmeer Ullah Shah, Yumna Khabir, Santosh Sah, Um E. Abiha Batool, Muhammad Zain Ul Haq, Omer Bin Khalid Jamil, Aymar Akilimali   +9 more
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Effect of abdominal obesity on insulin resistance and the components of the metabolic syndrome: Evidence supporting obesity as the central feature

, 2003
Background: Metabolic syndrome includes abdominal obesity, diabetes type 2, hypertension, dyslipidemia, derangements of fibrinolysis, and atherosclerosis. Since abdominal obesity is one of the major components of the insulin resistance syndrome (IRS), an
Ozcan, Rahşan, Buyukdevrim, AS, Gunay, D, Duman, BS, Turkoglu, Cengizhan, Cagatay, PENBE   +5 more
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Perfil lipídico em escolares de Recife - PE Lipid profile of schoolchildren from Recife, PE

Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, 2010
FUNDAMENTO: A ocorrência de dislipidemias é crescente na população infanto-juvenil. Níveis alterados do perfil lipídico estão relacionados com maior incidência de hipertensão e doença aterosclerótica.
Patrícia Brazil Pereira, Ilma Kruze Grande de Arruda, Ana Márcia Tenório de Souza Cavalcanti, Alcides da Silva Diniz   +3 more
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Prevalence and geographic variation of abdominal obesity in 7- and 9-year-old children in Greece; World Health Organization Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative 2010

BMC Public Health, 2017
Background In children, abdominal obesity is a better predictor of the presence of cardiovascular risk factors than body mass index (BMI)-defined obesity.
Maria Hassapidou, Themistoklis Tzotzas, Evangelia Makri, Ioannis Pagkalos, Ioannis Kaklamanos, Efthymios Kapantais, Annet Abrahamian, Antonis Polymeris, Konstantinos Tziomalos   +8 more
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Proportion and Characteristics of the Subjects with Low Muscle Mass and Abdominal Obesity among the Newly Diagnosed and Drug-Naïve Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients [PDF]

Diabetes & Metabolism Journal, 2018
BackgroundSarcopenic obesity (SO) is a serious public health concern, few studies have examined the clinical implications of SO in newly-diagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients.
Jung A Kim, Soon Young Hwang, Hye Soo Chung, Nam Hoon Kim, Ji A Seo, Sin Gon Kim, Nan Hee Kim, Kyung Mook Choi, Sei Hyun Baik, Hye Jin Yoo   +9 more
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THE PROBLEM OF OBESITY IN ANAESTHESIA FOR ABDOMINAL SURGERY [PDF]

Survey of Anesthesiology, 1962
The physiological changes responsible for the syndrome of hypoventilation in obesity are discussed. This state may be intensified during anaesthesia for abdominal surgery, and an obese person not suffering from hypoventilation may readily develop this condition when anaesthetized.
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