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Significant Relationship between Overweight and Hypertension in the Elderly
Althea Medical Journal, 2020 Background: Hypertension is one of the degenerative diseases that commonly occurs in the elderly, however, the etiology is still unclear. One of the risk factors is overweight.
Suwanda Wahyudin +2 more
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Cement Dust Exposure and Risk of Hyperglycemia and Overweight among Artisans and Residents Close to a Cement Factory in Sokoto, Nigeria [PDF]
The potential health risks of cement dust exposure are increasingly raising concern worldwide as the cement industry expands in response to rising cement demand. This necessitates the need to determine the nature of the risks in order to develop appropriate measures.
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Relationship between Periodontal disease and Asthma among overweight/obese adults [PDF]
arXiv, 2016 Aim: To assess the relationship between oral health and asthma. Methods: Data from 1,315 overweight or obese individuals, aged 40-65 years was used. Asthma was self-reported, while periodontitis, bleeding on probing (BOP), and plaque index were determined by clinical examinations. Results: Using logistic regression adjusting for gender, smoking status,
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Tipping Elements in the Human Intestinal Ecosystem [PDF]
, 2014 Recent studies show that the microbial communities inhabiting the human intestine can have profound impact on our well-being and health. However, we have limited understanding of the mechanisms that control this complex ecosystem. Based on a deep phylogenetic analysis of the intestinal microbiota in a thousand western adults we identified groups of ...
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Obesity as a form of malnutrition: over-nutrition on the Uganda ''malnutrition'' agenda
The Pan African Medical Journal, 2017 The objectives were to highlight the burden of overweight and obesity as an additional area of importance for the malnutrition agenda in Uganda and to provide evidence-based considerations for stakeholders involved. Introduction: Mirroring other Low- and
Christine Ngaruiya +3 more
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Journal of Immunotherapy for Cancer, 2019 BackgroundRecent evidence suggested a potential correlation between overweight and the efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) in cancer patients.Patients and methodsWe conducted a retrospective study of advanced cancer patients consecutively ...
A. Cortellini +44 more
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Analyzing the Language of Food on Social Media [PDF]
, 2014 We investigate the predictive power behind the language of food on social media. We collect a corpus of over three million food-related posts from Twitter and demonstrate that many latent population characteristics can be directly predicted from this data: overweight rate, diabetes rate, political leaning, and home geographical location of authors. For
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Knowledge, attitudes and management skills of medical practitioners regarding weight management
African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 2016 Background: Overweight and obesity have become a global problem. Health professionals are poorly prepared in weight management, which has an effect on their attitudes and management skills with regard to overweight and obese patients. Aim and setting: To
Vangile B. Mkhatshwa +2 more
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Antibubbles: evidences of a critical pressure [PDF]
arXiv, 2003 We present experimental investigations of antibubbles. Such an unusual fluid object is a thin spherical air shell surrounding a liquid globule. We explain how to produce them and we study their stability. By overweighting antibubbles with a small amount of salt, they sink and pop at a definite depth.
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A Synthesis of the Literature on the Relationship Between Food Access and Overweight and Obesity in African American Adolescents [PDF]
, 2013 Food access shapes a community’s nutritional environment and impacts the health and physical well-being of its residents. When a community does not have adequate access to outlets that offer healthy options, it is difficult to maintain a healthy diet ...
Smalls, Marquita Noelle Bullock
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