Obesity has been defined as an 'abnormal and excessive fat accumulation that may impair health'.7 In practice, obesity is diagnosed by body mass index (BMI), which is taken as a surrogate of percentage fat mass. However, BMI has some obvious limitations related to the assessment of fat ...
Center for Non-Communicable Diseases, Karatchi, Pakistan Danish Saleheen Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Danish Saleheen Laboratory of Genetics, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, Maryland, USA David Schlessinger Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria del...
Obesity is a disorder characterized by a disproportionate increase in body weight in relation to height, mainly due to the accumulation of fat, and is considered a pandemic of the present century by many international health institutions. It is associated with several non-communicable chronic disease...
The finding of low ratio with the linkage to NAEs highlights the potential use of CD4/CD8 ratios as a marker for the clinical progression of non-communicable diseases and mortality among PLHIV with prolonged suppression of viremia.References
AIDS patientsANTIRETROVIRAL agentsHIV infectionsCOMMUNICABLE diseasesCriteria of cART initiation after a first ADE have been modified over time based on evidence suggesting that treatment should be initiated earlier. The impact of these changes on clinical practice is unknown. Objective of this analysis ...
into eight recommendations nested within the ‘what, where, who and how’ of care models. These recommendations, aimed at policy-makers and practitioners designing and implementing models of care, can help to address the increasing need for the provision of good practice care for patients with ...
As a result, increased systemic inflammation has been reported to lead to IR, hyperglycemia, hypertension, disturbed lipid profile, and non-communicable diseases such as MetS, CVD, T2DM, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease [65,68]. Consistently with the literature, in this study, the ...
Two policy areas where Australia has been benchmarked as performing well against international best-practice are in adoption of food-based dietary guidelines and front-of-pack nutrition labels [5]. The current Australian Dietary Guidelines (ADGs) were introduced in 2013 to promote health and well...