Early causes of child obesity and implications for prevention [PDF]
, 2007 Child obesity is becoming a serious public health concern, and major research effort is being devoted both to understand its aetiology and to improve the effectiveness of prevention strategies.
Cole, T.J.
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From obesity resistance to obesity prediction and prevention? [PDF]
, 2016 Comment on: Regulation of hypothalamic neuropeptides gene expression in diet induced obesity resistant rats: possible targets for obesity prediction?
Cassano, Tommaso, Gaetani, Silvana
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Audit of the diagnosis and management of adult obesity in a Maltese general practice [PDF]
, 2012 Obesity is an escalating health problem all over the world. Unfortunately, Malta lies on the upper end of the spectrum of mean population BMI (body-mass index).
Bonnici, Jason +2 more
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Genome sequence of Christensenella minuta DSM 22607T [PDF]
, 2017 Obesity influences and is influenced by the human gut microbiome. Here, we present the genome of Christensenella minuta, a highly heritable bacterial species which has been found to be strongly associated with obesity through an unknown biological ...
Hallsworth-Pepin, Kymberlie +4 more
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Prevalence and Determinants of Obesity among Primary School Children in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. [PDF]
, 2013 Childhood obesity has increased dramatically and has become a public health concern worldwide. Childhood obesity is likely to persist through adulthood and may lead to early onset of NCDs. However, there is paucity of data on obesity among primary school
A Sharma +43 more
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Does Presenting Patients’ BMI Increase Documentation of Obesity? [PDF]
, 2002 Purpose: Despite the associated health consequences, obesity is infrequently documented as a problem in medical charts. The purpose of this study is to determine whether a simple intervention (routine listing of the BMI on the medical chart) will ...
Clothier MD, Norm +2 more
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The interplay between obesity and cancer: a fly view [PDF]
, 2016 Accumulating epidemiological evidence indicates a strong clinical association between obesity and an increased risk of cancer. The global pandemic of obesity indicates a public health trend towards a substantial increase in cancer incidence and mortality.
Hirabayashi, S
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Normalisation and stigmatisation of obesity in UK newspapers: a visual content analysis [PDF]
, 2013 Obesity represents a major and growing global public health concern. The mass media play an important role in shaping public understandings of health, and obesity attracts much media coverage.
Hilton, S., Patterson, C.
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Childhood Obesity and Familial Hypercholesterolemia: Genetic Diseases that Contribute to Cardiovascular Disease [PDF]
, 2014 Childhood obesity occurs as the result of an imbalance between caloric intake and energy expenditure. Genetic risk factors for obesity have become an area of research due to its permanency.
Caudle, Alyssa
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Determinants of childhood obesity in representative sample of children in north east of iran [PDF]
, 2012 Childhood obesity has become, a global public health problem, and epidemiological studies are important to identify its determinants in different populations.
Asayesh, H. +6 more
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