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Obesity prevention for junior high school students: An intervention programme [PDF]
, 2013 Background: Generally, schools are an important setting to provide programmes for obesity prevention for children because the vast majority of children attend school. This study investigates how an intervention programme in the school subject of Physical
Dafopoulou, GM, Topalidou, A
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2017 The purpose of the study was to examine differences in physical activity level, physical fitness, body mass index, and overweight among adolescents in vocational and non-vocational studies, at the age of 14, 16, and 19, using a 5-year longitudinal design.
Pål Lagestad +2 more
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Obesity and periodontal disease: A review
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2020 Periodontal diseases usually refer to inflammatory disorders that are caused by pathogenic bacteria in the subgingival biofilm in association with impaired host immune response and connective tissue breakdown.
Mohammad Shoyab Khan +3 more
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Overweight and obesity as determinants of cardiovascular risk: the Framingham experience.
Archives of Internal Medicine, 2002 BACKGROUND To our knowledge, no single investigation concerning the long-term effects of overweight status on the risk for hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes mellitus, and cardiovascular sequelae has been reported.
P. Wilson +4 more
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Once Again On the Klein Paradox [PDF]
arXiv, 2003 After the short survey of the Klein Paradox in 3-dimensional relativistic equations, we present a detailed consideration of Dirac modified equation, which follows by one particle infinite overweighting in Salpeter Equation. It is shown, that the separation of angular variables and reduction to radial equation is possible by using standard methods in ...
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Regional differences in childhood BMI data : the Malta childhood national body mass index study [PDF]
, 2019 Introduction: Obesity is a problem of major public health concern all over the world and Malta has high obesity prevalence rates. With over a third of Maltese children being overweight or obese, the Malta Childhood National Body Mass Index study was ...
Aquilina, Samuel +6 more
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African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 2011 Background: The prevalence of overweight and obesity in children has been increasing worldwide. South Africa has minimal data on childhood body weight. Objectives: This study determined whether school children in the eThekwini district in KwaZulu-Natal ...
Threethambal Puckree +3 more
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Estimated global overweight and obesity burden in pregnant women based on panel data model
PLoS ONE, 2018 Objective To estimate the global and country-level burden of overweight and obesity among pregnant women from 2005 to 2014. Methods Publicly accessible country-level data were collected from the World Health Organization, the World Bank and the Food and ...
Cheng Chen, Xianglong Xu, Yan Yan
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Contagious obesity: from adenovirus 36 to RB dysfunction [PDF]
arXiv, 2008 Significant overweight represents a major health problem in industrialized countries. Besides its known metabolic origins, this condition may also have an infectious cause, as recently postulated. Here, it is surmised that the potentially causative adenovirus 36 contributes to such disorder by inactivating the retinoblastoma tumor suppressor protein ...
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Maternal employment and early childhood overweight: findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study [PDF]
, 2008 Background: In most developed countries, maternal employment has increased rapidly. Changing patterns of family life have been suggested to be contributing to the rising prevalence of childhood obesity.
Cole, T.J. +3 more
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