Body Composition Characteristics of a Load-Capacity Model: Age-Dependent and Sex-Specific Percentiles in 5- to 17-Year-Old Children
Conclusion: These pediatric body composition reference data enable physicians and public health scientists to monitor body composition during growth and development and to interpret individual data. The data point out to an early risk of sarcopenia in overweight children and adolescents.Obes Facts (Source: Obesity Facts)
Source: Obesity Facts - October 5, 2021 Category: Eating Disorders & Weight Management Source Type: research
COVID-19 and Obesity: Overlapping of Two Pandemics
Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has recently led to worldwide research efforts to identify subjects at greater risk of developing more severe illness: overall obesity displayed a strong correlation with critical illness and major severity of COVID-19 manifestations.Summary: Obesity and metabolic disorders are closely linked to chronic systemic inflammation. The adipose tissue constitutes a source of cytokines, which configure a low-grade inflammation and a hypercoagulation status; in addition, diagnosis and care of obese patients are often complicated by excess weight and ventilation difficulti...
Source: Obesity Facts - September 24, 2021 Category: Eating Disorders & Weight Management Source Type: research
Levels and Associations of Weight Misperception with Healthy Lifestyle among Adults in Saudi Arabia
Conclusions: Weight misperception could be used as an indicator of a poor health routine that may lead to negative health outcomes.Obes Facts (Source: Obesity Facts)
Source: Obesity Facts - September 14, 2021 Category: Eating Disorders & Weight Management Source Type: research
Gestational Weight Gain Influences the Adipokine-Oxidative Stress Association during Pregnancy
Conclusion: Our findings suggest that concurrent mechanisms regulate adipokine production and oxidative stress in pregnant women and that this regulation is influenced by GWG, probably due to an excessive AT accumulation.Obes Facts (Source: Obesity Facts)
Source: Obesity Facts - September 14, 2021 Category: Eating Disorders & Weight Management Source Type: research
Attitude Matters! How Attitude towards Bariatric Surgery Influences the Effects of Behavioural Weight Loss Treatment
Conclusion: A BWL treatment in a clinical setting identified 2 distinct groups with different attitudes towards bariatric surgery that were associated with different body weight change outcomes. These groups may require differently targeted programmes to achieve the best body weight loss results.Obes Facts (Source: Obesity Facts)
Source: Obesity Facts - September 14, 2021 Category: Eating Disorders & Weight Management Source Type: research
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Source: Obesity Facts - September 9, 2021 Category: Eating Disorders & Weight Management Source Type: research
The Association of Cortisol Excretion with Weight and Metabolic Parameters in Nondiabetic Patients with Morbid Obesity
Conclusion: Despite being more obese, patients with higher cortisol excretion have a more favorable metabolic profile. These results deserve further attention regarding the respective mechanisms.Obes Facts (Source: Obesity Facts)
Source: Obesity Facts - September 8, 2021 Category: Eating Disorders & Weight Management Source Type: research
Higher Levels of C-Reactive Protein and Ferritin in Patients with Overweight and Obesity and SARS-CoV-2-Related Pneumonia
Conclusion: Patients with overweight and obesity required more IMV and had higher peaks of CRP and ferritin than patients with normal weight during COVID-19.Obes Facts (Source: Obesity Facts)
Source: Obesity Facts - September 3, 2021 Category: Eating Disorders & Weight Management Source Type: research
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Source: Obesity Facts - September 2, 2021 Category: Eating Disorders & Weight Management Source Type: research
Weight Stigma and Disease and Disability Concepts of Obesity: A Survey of the German Population
Conclusions: These results suggest a careful use of the disease and disability terms and precise definitions. The disability concept in particular carries notions that are publicly devalued.Obes Facts (Source: Obesity Facts)
Source: Obesity Facts - August 30, 2021 Category: Eating Disorders & Weight Management Source Type: research
Long-Term Body Mass Index Variability, Weight Change Slope, and Risk of Cardiovascular Outcomes: 7-Year Prospective Study in Chinese Hypertensive Subjects
Conclusions: Higher BMI variability was associated with increased risk of CVD in hypertensive subjects with weight gain but not in those with weight loss, independent of traditional cardiovascular risk factors.Obes Facts (Source: Obesity Facts)
Source: Obesity Facts - August 30, 2021 Category: Eating Disorders & Weight Management Source Type: research
Response to “Does Insufficient Sleep Increase the Body Mass Index in Adolescents?”
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Source: Obesity Facts - August 26, 2021 Category: Eating Disorders & Weight Management Source Type: research
Mediating Effects of Mental Health Problems in a Clinical Sample of Adolescents with Obesity
Conclusion: Mental health problems may be one salient pathway through which BMI-SDS impairs global HRQoL among adolescents with obesity. Hence, inpatient rehabilitation programs for adolescents with obesity should increase their focus more on the development of psychosocial skills. Thus, the promotion of emotion regulation and social-emotional competencies is suggested.Obes Facts (Source: Obesity Facts)
Source: Obesity Facts - August 24, 2021 Category: Eating Disorders & Weight Management Source Type: research
Neck Circumference and Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes in Chinese Elderly Individuals: A Community-Based Cohort Study
Conclusions: A larger NC was associated with a higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes in Chinese elderly individuals. However, studies with larger sample sizes and longer follow-up durations are needed to definitively determine the relationship between NC and the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.Obes Facts (Source: Obesity Facts)
Source: Obesity Facts - August 24, 2021 Category: Eating Disorders & Weight Management Source Type: research
Dysregulation of Circulating miR-24-3p in Children with Obesity and Its Predictive Value for Metabolic Syndrome
Conclusion: MiR-24-3p is a potential noninvasive marker for children with obesity and has predictive value for the occurrence of metabolic syndrome.Obes Facts (Source: Obesity Facts)
Source: Obesity Facts - August 24, 2021 Category: Eating Disorders & Weight Management Source Type: research
