And while society as a whole seems to have no problem poking fun at those with obesity via memes and jokes, the truth is that obesity is now the norm in our country. According to the most recent numbers from theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 40.3% of U.S. adults ...
The charity similarly found that surplus weight now instigated 6.3% of all cancer cases - up from 5.5% in 2011 - while smoking as a root had declined, Cancer Research UK found the country with the greatest amount of preventable causes of cancer was Scotland with 46.5%, followed by Northern...
Malaysia has the highest percentage of overweight people in South-East Asia and the bulk of them are in Putrajaya. A survey has found that two out of five Malaysian civil servants are obese. The news is not good for the country’s health. KUALA LUMPUR: It has been long known that Malays...
(that is, the hypertension population exclusively), 470% of individuals with hypertension are overweight or obese.100 In those with type II diabetes mellitus, the prevalence of the obesity–hyperten- sion phenotype is variable by country and defining blood pressure threshold, ranging from 33% to...
The data in Table 4 show that ABSI is associated with hypertension in middle-aged and elderly people in our country, and the degree of association is much lower than the other 13 indices. Because the deviation of ABSI from its average value is low, the association between ABSI and ...
In China, the largest developing country in the world with a population of 1.4 billion people, there has been a rapid and dramatic increase in obesity prevalence, from 7.1% in 2002 to 11.9% in 2012[5, 6]. Consequently, there has been a parallel increase in the prevalence of several ...
In general, the standard deviations (SDs) for the commonly measured proteins were smaller in C1 than in C2. This could be explained by the fact that the C1 population was more uniform (see Supplementary Material); on top, there was only one collection center in one country (i.e., Ottawa...
Accordingly, the prevalence of overweight and obesity rose rapidly in the country in the past several decades [19]. Meanwhile, undernutrition is still a concern for vulnerable groups, such as older adults in China [20]. Diet quality scores may provide a convenient tool to screen for those at...
The Feel4Diabetes study is a type 2 diabetes prevention program that recruited 12,193 children [age: 8.20 (±1.01) years] and their parents from six European countries. The current work used pre-intervention data collected from 9576 children–parents pai
As such, COSI's country expertise–in producing information and helping countries plan, enforce and review policies–is an important asset for international sharing, It is predicted that evolving habits and the growing popularity of junk food will lead to an increase in childhood obesity over the ...