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ADDRESSING THE INFILTRATIVE PATTERN: COMPLEX DIAGNOSIS
Annals of Hepatology, 2022 Introduction and objective: Alterations in liver function tests are frequent, so the approach based on the predominant alteration and the patient's medical history is relevant. Carrying out a liver biopsy in cases of diagnostic doubt is imperative.
A.L. Ordóñez-Vázquez +5 more
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A20 deubiquitinase controls PGC-1α expression in the adipose tissue
Lipids in Health and Disease, 2018 Background Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ coactivator- 1alpha (PGC-1α) plays an important role in whole body metabolism and, particularly in glucose homeostasis.
Bruna Bombassaro +8 more
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Obesity Heuristic, New Way On Artificial Immune Systems [PDF]
arXiv, 2012 There is a need for new metaphors from immunology to flourish the application areas of Artificial Immune Systems. A metaheuristic called Obesity Heuristic derived from advances in obesity treatment is proposed. The main forces of the algorithm are the generation omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids.
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Maternal metabolic factors during pregnancy predict early childhood growth trajectories and obesity risk: the CANDLE Study. [PDF]
, 2019 BackgroundWe investigated the individual and additive effects of three modifiable maternal metabolic factors, including pre-pregnancy overweight/obesity, gestational weight gain (GWG), and gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), on early childhood growth ...
Bush, Nicole R +8 more
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Childhood Maltreatment and BMI Trajectories to Mid-Adult Life: Follow-Up to Age 50y in a British Birth Cohort. [PDF]
, 2015 Childhood maltreatment including abuse and neglect has been associated with adult obesity, but evidence on life-course development of obesity or BMI gain is unclear.
Li, L, Pinto Pereira, SM, Power, C
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective We aimed to characterize patients with hand osteoarthritis (OA) with deteriorating or improving hand pain and to investigate patients achieving good clinical outcome after four years. Methods We used four‐year annual Australian/Canadian Hand Osteoarthritis Index (AUSCAN) pain subscale (range 0–20) measurements from the Hand OSTeoArthritis in ...
Coen van der Meulen +5 more
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BMC Surgery, 2020 Background Bariatric surgery is an effective treatment for obesity and its associated comorbidities. This is the first comprehensive report of a prospective cohort study, comparing sleeve gastrectomy (SG) with gastric bypass (GB) regarding their ...
Alireza Khalaj +7 more
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Can collider bias fully explain the obesity paradox? [PDF]
arXiv, 2016 The "obesity paradox" has been reported in several observational studies, where obesity was shown to be associated to a decreased mortality in individuals suffering from a chronic disease, such as diabetes or heart failure. Causal arguments have recently been given to explain this apparently paradoxical fact: because the chronic disease is caused by ...
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How Close and How Much? Linking Health Outcomes to Built Environment Spatial Distributions [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Built environment features (BEFs) refer to aspects of the human constructed environment, which may in turn support or restrict health related behaviors and thus impact health. In this paper we are interested in understanding whether the spatial distribution and quantity of fast food restaurants (FFRs) influence the risk of obesity in schoolchildren. To
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Defining Obesity: An Argument for the Social Environment Perspective [PDF]
, 2013 It is well documented that obesity is a growing problem in the U.S. and worldwide. By 2010, 35.9% of U.S. adults age 20 and older were obese (Overweight and Obesity, CDC).
McInnis, Meghan
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