Do the Obese Know They Are Obese? [PDF]
North Carolina Medical Journal, 2008 To determine whether adults accurately perceived their weight status category and could report how much they would need to weigh in order to be classified as underweight, normal weight, overweight, or obese.Height and weight were measured on 104 White and African American men and women 45 to 64 years of age living in North Carolina.
Kimberly P. Truesdale, June Stevens
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Obesity and diabetes mellitus association in rural community of Katana, South Kivu, in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo : Bukavu Observ Cohort study results [PDF]
, 2016 Background: Factual data exploring the relationship between obesity and diabetes mellitus prevalence from rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa remain scattered and are unreliable.
AD Evaristo-Neto +40 more
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Obesity, perceived weight discrimination, and psychological well-being in older adults in England [PDF]
, 2015 Objective To examine whether the adverse effect of obesity on psychological well-being can be explained by weight discrimination. Methods The study sample included 5056 older (≥50 y) men and women living in England and participating in the English ...
Beeken, RJ, Jackson, SE, Wardle, J
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Do routinely measured risk factors for obesity explain the sex gap in its prevalence? Observations from Saudi Arabia. [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND: The prevalence of adult obesity is higher in women than men in most countries. However, the pathways that link female sex with excess obesity are still not fully understood. We examine whether socioeconomic and behavioural factors may mediate
Al-Hamdan, Nasser +4 more
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Simple Obesity with Cardiomyopathy of Obesity.
Internal Medicine, 1996 A 32-year-old obese female was hospitalized with dyspnea. Echocardiogram revealed left ventricular dilatation. Chest X-ray film showed enlarged heart size and prominent pulmonary congestion. Simple obesity with congestive heart failure (CHF) due to cardiomyopathy of obesity was diagnosed according to the absence of obvious disease that caused obesity ...
Yuh Nakauchi +8 more
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Pediatric Obesity: Influence on Drug Dosing and Therapeutics [PDF]
, 2018 Obesity is an ongoing global health concern and has only recently been recognized as a chronic disease of energy homeostasis and fuel partitioning. Obesity afflicts 17% of US children and adolescents.
Ameer, Barbara, PharmD, MBA, BCPS, FCP +1 more
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Coronary age, based on coronary calcium measurement, is increased in patients with morbid obesity [PDF]
, 2018 Purpose: Obesity is a well-known of risk factor for atherosclerosis. However, recently an "obesity paradox" has been discussed, which is considered as a protective effect of obesity on the development coronary artery disease (CAD).
Białecki, Marcin +3 more
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Agrochemicals and obesity [PDF]
Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, 2020 Obesity has become a very large concern worldwide, reaching pandemic proportions over the past several decades. Lifestyle factors, such as excess caloric intake and decreased physical activity, together with genetic predispositions, are well-known factors related to obesity.
Ren, Xiao-Min, Kuo, Yun, Blumberg, Bruce
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Fuzzy logic as a decision-making support system for the indication of bariatric surgery based on an index (OBESINDEX) generated by the association between body fat and body mass index [PDF]
, 2011 Background: A Fuzzy Obesity Index (OBESINDEX) for use as an alternative in 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 ...
Glicia C. Azevedo +6 more
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Socioeconomic disadvantage in childhood as a predictor of excessive gestational weight gain and obesity in midlife adulthood. [PDF]
, 2015 BackgroundLower childhood socioeconomic position is associated with greater risk of adult obesity among women, but not men. Pregnancy-related weight changes may contribute to this gender difference.
Abrams, Barbara +3 more
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