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Strengthening resistance to the COVID-19 pandemic and fostering future resilience requires concerted action on obesity

Global Health Action, 2020
Initial observations showed that people with chronic noncommunicable diseases were at heightened risk of severe COVID-19 and adverse outcomes. Subsequently, data from various countries have revealed obesity as an independent and significant factor, with ...
Angela M. Jackson-Morris, Rachel Nugent, Johanna Ralston, Olivia Barata Cavalcanti, John Wilding   +4 more
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CCL20 is up-regulated in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease fibrosis and is produced by hepatic stellate cells in response to fatty acid loading

Journal of Translational Medicine, 2018
Background Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a prevalent complication of extreme obesity. Loading of the liver with fat can progress to inflammation and fibrosis including cirrhosis. The molecular factors involved in the progression from simple
Xin Chu, Qunyan Jin, Hui Chen, G. Craig Wood, Anthony Petrick, William Strodel, Jon Gabrielsen, Peter Benotti, Tooraj Mirshahi, David J. Carey, Christopher D. Still, Johanna K. DiStefano, Glenn S. Gerhard   +12 more
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Gender-related differences in cardiometabolic risk factors and lifestyle behaviors in treatment-seeking adolescents with severe obesity

BMC Pediatrics, 2018
Background Obesity during adolescence is associated with cardiovascular mortality in adulthood. The adverse obesity-related cardiometabolic risk profile is already observed in adolescence.
Lisa Ha Barstad, Pétur B. Júlíusson, Line Kristin Johnson, Jens Kristoffer Hertel, Samira Lekhal, Jøran Hjelmesæth   +5 more
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The CMDO Network's Health Research and AI symposium

McGill Journal of Medicine, 2023
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Cardiometabolic Health, Diabetes and obesity Research Network
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Heart rate variability in hyperthyroidism on sub Saharan African patients: a case–control study

BMC Research Notes, 2018
Objective We aimed to determine heart rate variability in freshly diagnosed untreated hyperthyroidism patients. We enrolled 10 patients (9 females) and 10 matched controls for sex and age. Each eligible patient underwent five different tests according to
Eliane Ngassam, Marcel Azabji-Kenfack, Aurel T. Tankeu, Liliane Mfeukeu-Kuate, Chris-Nadège Nganou-Gnindjio, Camille Mba, Jean Claude Katte, Mesmin Y. Dehayem, Jean Claude Mbanya, Eugène Sobngwi   +9 more
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Fine particulate matter air pollution and aortic perivascular adipose tissue: Oxidative stress, leptin, and vascular dysfunction

Physiological Reports, 2021
Exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution increases blood pressure, induces vascular inflammation and dysfunction, and augments atherosclerosis in humans and rodents; however, the understanding of early changes that foster chronic ...
Petra Haberzettl, Lexiao Jin, Daniel W. Riggs, Jingjing Zhao, Timothy E. O’Toole, Daniel J. Conklin   +5 more
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Family-Based Telehealth Initiative to Improve Nutrition and Physical Activity for Children With Obesity and Its Utility During COVID-19: A Mixed Methods Evaluation

Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022
Guidelines recommend primary care providers refer children with obesity to behavioral interventions, but given limited program availability, access, and parental engagement, referrals remain rare.
Melissa N. Poulsen, Jennifer Franceschelli Hosterman, G. Craig Wood, Adam Cook, Lyndell Wright, Scott T. Jamieson, Allison Naylor, Shawnee Lutcher, Jacob Mowery, Christopher J. Seiler, Gregory J. Welk, Lisa Bailey-Davis, Lisa Bailey-Davis   +12 more
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Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of cognitive behavior therapy-enhanced compared with treatment-as-usual for anorexia nervosa in an inpatient and outpatient routine setting: a consecutive cohort study

Journal of Eating Disorders, 2022
Background For anorexia nervosa, firm evidence of the superiority of specialized psychological treatments is limited and economic evaluations of such treatments in real world settings are scarce. This consecutive cohort study examined differential (cost-)
Elske van den Berg, Daniela Schlochtermeier, Jitske Koenders, Liselotte de Mooij, Margo de Jonge, Anna E. Goudriaan, Matthijs Blankers, Jaap Peen, Jack Dekker   +8 more
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Banded Roux-en-Y gastric bypass in patients with super morbid obesity (BRandY-study): protocol of a cohort study with 10 year follow-up

BMC Surgery, 2020
Background Weight loss outcomes after bariatric surgery are less favorable in super morbidly obese patients (BMI ≥50 kg/m2). Non-response, either defined as insufficient weight loss or weight regain after initial successful weight loss, is a matter of ...
M. M. Romeijn, W. K. G. Leclercq, A. A. P. M. Luijten, L. Janssen, F. M. H. van Dielen   +4 more
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“Bioelectrical impedance analysis in managing sarcopenic obesity in NAFLD”

Obesity Science & Practice, 2021
Introduction Sarcopenic obesity and its association with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is under‐recognized by many healthcare providers in Western medicine due to the lack of awareness and diagnostic guidelines.
David J. Hanna, Scott T. Jamieson, Christine S. Lee, Christopher A. Pluskota, Nicole J. Bressler, Peter N. Benotti, Sandeep Khurana, David D. K. Rolston, Christopher D. Still   +8 more
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