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According to the UNICEF Child Mortality Report 2018, SSA has the highest global preventable mortality rate for children under five (including deaths from non-infectious diseases such as diarrhoea; non-infectious diarrhoea is linked to unclean and unsafe water from extreme weather events; toxins from ...
We evaluate the impact of each scenario on the epidemic dynamics as quantified by projected hospital admissions, the time-dependent effective reproduction number, population immunization level due to natural infection and vaccination, and the timing of reaching control of COVID-19 in Portugal. Finally...
The obesity pandemic engenders the global threat of metabolic syndrome and its related disorders, including diabetes and coronary artery disease (CAD). The purpose of this review is to discuss the deleterious effects of metabolic syndrom... P Paramsothy,RH Knopp - 《Metab Syndr Relat Disord》 被...
Arguably, the major pathogenic factor in the metabolic syndrome is central obesity [1,2]. While abdominal obesity is determined by the accumulation of both subcutaneous adipose tissue (SCAT) and visceral adipose tissue (VAT), the excess accumulation of VAT appears to play a more significant pathog...
Controlling the obesity epidemic is important for maintaining musculoskeletal health. Ann Rheum Dis 2006;65:1401-2.Woolf AD, Breedveld FC, Kvien TK: Controlling the obesity epi- demic is important for maintaining musculoskeletal health. Ann Rheum Dis 2006, 65:1401-1402....
Although the World Health Organization (WHO) has set and classified obesity as a disease more than 30 years ago, the American Medical Society was until recently (2010) not so sure about this definition. This article discusses the relevance of the implementation of public health policies for ...
Indeed, obesity- a form of malnutrition- is the defining epidemic of our age, and one in twelve adults worldwide now have type 2 diabetes, (Global Nutrition Report 2015). However, although unhealthy foods and drinks are among the key drivers of obesity, food industry encourages the belief ...
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