Circulating SIRT1 inversely correlates with epicardial fat thickness in patients with obesity [PDF]
, 2016 Background and aim: Obesity is increasing worldwide and is related to undesirable cardiovascular outcomes. Epicardial fat (EF), the heart visceral fat depot, increases with obesity and correlates with cardiovascular risk.
A. Lenzi +9 more
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Pharmacological Research, 2017 Obesity and in particular the excessive visceral fat distribution is accompanied by several alterations at hormonal, inflammatory and endothelial level. These alterations induce a stimulation of several other mechanisms that contribute to the hypertensive state and on the other side to increase the cardiovascular morbidity.
Seravalle, G, Grassi, G.
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The Effect of Obesity on State Health Care Expenditures: An Empirical Analysis [PDF]
, 2009 The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of obesity rates on per capita state health care expenditures. A two-stage least square regression model is used. In the first stage of the estimation, factors influencing obesity rates are determined.
Collins, Kristen
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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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Use of International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision Codes for Obesity: Trends in the United States from an Electronic Health Record-Derived Database. [PDF]
, 2018 Obesity is a potentially modifiable risk factor for many diseases, and a better understanding of its impact on health care utilization, costs, and medical outcomes is needed.
Crawford, Albert +4 more
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State practitioner insights into local public health challenges and opportunities in obesity prevention: a qualitative study. [PDF]
, 2014 IntroductionThe extent of obesity prevention activities conducted by local health departments (LHDs) varies widely. The purpose of this qualitative study was to characterize how state obesity prevention program directors perceived the role of LHDs in ...
Khoong, Elaine C +3 more
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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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Annals of Internal Medicine, 1985 There is a close association of obesity with hypertension through mechanisms not now understood. Hypertension occurs frequently in industrialized societies where weight gain with advancing years is a common feature and is rare in primitive societies where weight and age are negatively correlated. Hemodynamically, obesity is characterized by an expanded
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The obesity conundrum – obesity then infection or infection then obesity?
Hamdan Medical Journal, 2014 Introduction: Obesity is defined as an excess of body fat, and the fundamental causes are sedentary lifestyles, high-fat and energy-dense diets and the behavioural patterns of communities as a consequence of increased urbanization. Research on obese individuals has shown that they have impaired immune function, which increases their susceptibility to ...
ManalMahmoud Sami +4 more
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