30 20 10 0 All ages 18–19 20–34 Figure 2 Obesity prevalence in 22q11.2DS compared with Canadian norms. Bar graph illustrating the obesity prevalence in 22q11.2DS, with (light grey) and without (medium grey bar) history of antipsychotic use, compared with the reported obesity ...
The government's National Survey of Children’s Health, funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration, collects health information for children between the ages of 10 and 17 in the U.S. To estimate national and state obesity rates, the survey collects data on the height and weight...
In human studies, the prevalence of adenovirus-36 infection is 20-30% in people who are obese, versus 5% in people who are not obese. Despite these provocative findings, the roles of infection and inflammation in the pathogenesis of obesity remain unclear. References...
subsequent clinical and population-based studies showed an associa- tion of insulin levels and/or insulin resistance with hypertension in both obese and non-obese people.53,54 Thus insulin, hypertension and the android or central obesity phenotype tracked together in population-based and clinical ...
Individuals who were older and those who had diabetes had larger increases in risk. Introduction Cardiovascular diseases are the leading causes of global morbidity and mortality.1,2 In 2020, approximately 19 million people were estimated to have died from cardiovascular diseases.3 Arrhythmia is a ...
Objective: to investigate the association of minimally and ultra-processed food consumption with OB in OW adults.Methods: we included 15,024 participants (9,618 OW [25.0-29.9 kg/m2], 5,406 OB [& GE; 30 kg/m2]) with ages ranging from 18 to 59 years from the 2019 baseline survey of ...
Interactions of age and sex with BMI terms were not included because of our interest in estimating the average effect of overweight or obesity across both sexes and all adult ages. Although it is interesting to examine how obesity effects differ by age, sex, race, and other factors, the ...
We used SUDAAN and data from NHANES 1999–2002 to estimate the prevalence in the United States of adolescents (ages 13–17) and very young adults (ages 18–22) who fell into adult WHO obesity classes I (BMI 30–34.9), II (35–39.9) and III (>40, also called morbid obesity). We ...
Consistent with work challenging set-point models of psychological well-being [23, 24], we propose that having lived with obesity may act as a significant life event and large numbers of people are not fully able to recover from its psychological impact. In the present research, we therefore ...
The increases in weight have occurred since the 1980s across all age groups12; those entering old age (≥ 60 years) with obesity today are likely to have had a longer exposure to excess weight than older people in previous cohorts. The disability risk associated with obesity may be related ...