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Health Effects of Overweight and Obesity in 195 Countries over 25 Years.
New England Journal of Medicine, 2017 Background Although the rising pandemic of obesity has received major attention in many countries, the effects of this attention on trends and the disease burden of obesity remain uncertain.
A. Afshin +165 more
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Deutsches Ärzteblatt international, 2009 The question of the right body weight evidently continues to occupy people. Especially in the media and fashion world, an ideal weight has been propagated for years—for women, a weight well below a body mass index (BMI) of 18—that has nothing to do with the medical assessment of body weight and really ought to be regarded as life-shortening.
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Males with Obesity and Overweight
Journal of Obesity & Metabolic Syndrome, 2020 Global average data suggest that the prevalence of obese and overweight males is much higher than that of females in some regions. The gender gap in obese and overweight individuals has deepened in many countries, and the gap is more prominent in overweight than in obesity. In particular, the prevalence of male obesity has continuously increased in the
Kyoung-Bae Kim, Yun-A Shin
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Overweight and Hypertension [PDF]
Circulation, 1969 The interrelationships between hypertension and obesity, two common and major health hazards, are reviewed. Comparisons of simultaneous intra-arterial and cuff blood pressure measurements indicate in general that the association between blood pressure and body weight is real and independent of arm circumference.
Lawrence V. Perlman +2 more
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Dynamics of fractalkine among Kharkiv residents with different body mass
Mìžnarodnij Endokrinologìčnij Žurnal, 2017 Background. When developing individual approaches to treating obesity and comorbid diseases, the presence and severity of inflammation in adipose tissue should be taken into account, as it significantly affects its metabolism and secretion.
K.V. Misiura, P.P. Kravchun
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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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ObesitiesThe diagnosis of obesity is conventionally determined by the Body Mass Index (BMI), with a threshold of 30 being extensively accepted. However, the validity of this cutoff point is subject to variation due to ethnic differences, and its accuracy in the ...
Jorge Alejandro Ayala San Pedro +3 more
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Changes in the nutritional status of Bolivian women 1994-1998: demographic and social predictors [PDF]
, 2004 Introduction: Bolivia, as one of the poorest Latin American countries, has dealt with the problems of undernutrition for the last 50 y. Little importance has been given to the increase in overweight and obesity among the population, despite the ...
Kolsteren, Patrick +1 more
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An overweight woman with galactorrhoea [PDF]
Postgraduate Medical Journal, 1998 1 Yendt ER. In: Spittel JA, ed. Clinical Medicine. Endocrinology, vol 8. Philadelphia: Harper & Row, 1983;pp 11-23. 2 Mann JB, Alterman S, Hills AG. Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy comprising 'pseudohypoparathyroidism' and 'pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism'. Ann Intern Med 1 962;56:3 15-39.
Lam, KSL, Chow, WS
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective Our objective was to explore moderators and mediators influenced changes in pain and function in people with knee osteoarthritis (OA) receiving a new model of primary care service delivery (Optimizing Primary Care Management of Knee Osteoarthritis [PARTNER]), at 12 months (ACTRN: 12617001595303).
Abdolhay Farivar +12 more
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