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Neighborhood deprivation and morbid obesity: Insights from the Houston Methodist Cardiovascular Disease Health System Learning Registry

Preventive Medicine Reports, 2023
This study examined the relationship between a validated measure of socioeconomic deprivation, such as the Area Deprivation Index (ADI), and morbid obesity.
Nwabunie Nwana, Mohamad B. Taha, Zulqarnain Javed, Rakesh Gullapelli, Juan C. Nicolas, Stephen L. Jones, Isaac Acquah, Safi Khan, Priyanka Satish, Shivani Mahajan, Miguel Cainzos-Achirica, Khurram Nasir   +11 more
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Impact of type 2 diabetes on in vivo activities and protein expressions of cytochrome P450 in patients with obesity

Clinical and Translational Science, 2022
Previous studies have not accounted for the close link between type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and obesity when investigating the impact of T2DM on cytochrome P450 (CYP) activities.
Kine Eide Kvitne, Anders Åsberg, Line K. Johnson, Christine Wegler, Jens K. Hertel, Per Artursson, Cecilia Karlsson, Shalini Andersson, Rune Sandbu, Eva Skovlund, Hege Christensen, Rasmus Jansson‐Löfmark, Jøran Hjelmesæth, Ida Robertsen   +13 more
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Trends in a life threatening condition: morbid obesity in dutch, Turkish and Moroccan children in The Netherlands. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
BackgroundMorbid obesity can be a life threatening condition. The aim of our study is to assess the trend in morbid obesity in The Netherlands among children of Dutch origin since 1980, and among children of Turkish and Moroccan origin since 1997.Methods
Paula van Dommelen, Yvonne Schönbeck, Stef van Buuren, Remy A HiraSing   +3 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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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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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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