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Obesity Reviews, 2020
This scoping review describes current guidelines for the dietary management of pediatric obesity and severe obesity. Guidelines were identified via electronic searches of six databases, grey literature, and reference lists and included international ...
Kim L Alman +5 more
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This scoping review describes current guidelines for the dietary management of pediatric obesity and severe obesity. Guidelines were identified via electronic searches of six databases, grey literature, and reference lists and included international ...
Kim L Alman +5 more
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Psychological aspects of severe obesity
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 1992Studies of several overweight persons conducted before their undergoing antiobesity surgery have shown 1) that there is no single personality type that characterizes the severely obese; 2) that this population does not report greater levels of general psychopathology than do average-weight control subjects; and 3) that the complications specific to ...
A J, Stunkard, T A, Wadden
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The medical care costs of obesity and severe obesity in youth: An instrumental variables approach.
Health Economics, 2020This paper is the first to use the method of instrumental variables to estimate the impact of obesity and severe obesity in youth. on U.S. medical care costs.
Adam I. Biener +2 more
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Surgical Clinics of North America, 2001
Although obesity is an easy diagnosis to make, its etiologies, pathophysiology, and symptomatology are extraordinarily complex. Progress in surgical technique and anesthesiological management has substantially improved the safety of performing operations on the severely obese in the last 20 years.
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Although obesity is an easy diagnosis to make, its etiologies, pathophysiology, and symptomatology are extraordinarily complex. Progress in surgical technique and anesthesiological management has substantially improved the safety of performing operations on the severely obese in the last 20 years.
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Psychological Impact of Severe Obesity
Current Obesity Reports, 2016The causes of severe obesity are multifactorial and include metabolic, dietary, physical, and psychological aspects. Additionally, the impact of severe obesity affects more than one's physical health. This article attempts to explore the psychological impact of severe obesity specifically in the areas of mood, eating disorders, sleep disturbance ...
Jennifer, Collins +2 more
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Morbidity of severely obese subjects
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 1992The prevalences of several risk factors and diseases are dramatically increased in obesity. In contrast, considerable inconsistencies have been reported for the relationship of obesity to the incidence of cardiovascular disease and total mortality. Suggested reasons for these inconsistencies have been confounders and surrogate risk factors, but the ...
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American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine, 2012
Bariatric surgery has been demonstrated to be an effective treatment for patients with severe obesity, producing improvements in many comorbid conditions, including type 2 diabetes, hypertension, obstructive sleep apnea, and dyslipidemia. The loss of body weight and resolution of comorbidities have been more recently found to be the result of ...
Robert F. Kushner, Lisa M. Neff
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Bariatric surgery has been demonstrated to be an effective treatment for patients with severe obesity, producing improvements in many comorbid conditions, including type 2 diabetes, hypertension, obstructive sleep apnea, and dyslipidemia. The loss of body weight and resolution of comorbidities have been more recently found to be the result of ...
Robert F. Kushner, Lisa M. Neff
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Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery for Pediatric Patients With Severe Obesity
Pediatrics, 2019Severe obesity affects the health and well-being of millions of children and adolescents in the United States and is widely considered to be an “epidemic within an epidemic” that poses a major public health crisis. Currently, few effective treatments for
C. Bolling +3 more
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Oncology Nursing Forum, 2016
Increasing weight and body fat composition has an impact on cancer detection and staging. Obese women are less likely to engage in breast and cervical screening practices. Excessive adipose tissue makes physical assessment more difficult, and patients with a BMI greater than 35 kg/m2 may have deeper and wider pelvic structures, which make internal ...
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Increasing weight and body fat composition has an impact on cancer detection and staging. Obese women are less likely to engage in breast and cervical screening practices. Excessive adipose tissue makes physical assessment more difficult, and patients with a BMI greater than 35 kg/m2 may have deeper and wider pelvic structures, which make internal ...
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Behavioral treatment of severe obesity
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 1992Behavioral approaches to obesity are usually employed in the context of short-term (10-20 wk) treatment interventions. These programs produce weight losses averaging 10 kg at the end of the program and 6.6 kg at 1-y follow-up. Improvements in long-term results may depend on a shift to a chronic disease model of obesity treatment, in which patients ...
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