not only across all seven of the different sleep measures but also in the trends observed for those measures with continuous or ordinal scales.ConclusionThis is the first nationally representative study to demonstrate a powerful association between sleep duration, sleep quality and obesity in the UK....
This graph shows the increasing numbers of overweight children in the United States. (Illustration by GGS Information Services.) Prognosis Obese and overweight children and adolescents are more likely to be obese or overweight as adults. According to the American Obesity Association, obese children...
An overview of the analysis pipeline is depicted in Fig. 1. We defined BMI–biomarker discordance as the residuals from the BMI-based predictions while adjusting for age and smoking status. To define this discordance, we used data at recruitment from the European ancestry subset of the UK Bioba...
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) describes the transmission of DNA outside of direct ancestral lineages. The process is best characterised within the bacterial kingdom and can enable the acquisition of genetic traits that support bacterial adaptation to no
Obesity is a widespread health condition1, likely to be driven by the increased availability of inexpensive high-calorie food2. People vary greatly in their behavioural response to food. Such variation is likely to be driven by behavioural styles3,4, as behaviour accounts for overall food intake...
B Quantified average weights of the aforementioned groups, showing the differences in body weight changes over the 8-week period. Body weights were measured weekly. C Graph illustrating the average food intake of mice in the NC, HFD, and HFD groups treated with varying doses of 7-MEGA™. ...
Excess adiposity contributes to the development of colon carcinoma (CC). Interleukin (IL)-1β is a pro-inflammatory cytokine relevant in obesity-associ
Body Composition Profiling in the UK Biobank Imaging Study. Obesity. 2018;26:1785–95. CAS PubMed Google Scholar Linge J, Whitcher B, Borga M, Dahlqvist Leinhard O. Sub-phenotyping Metabolic Disorders Using Body Composition: An Individualized, Nonparametric Approach Utilizing Large Data Sets. ...
Health in China | The Obesity Problem If you weren’t already aware, China has an obesity crisis on its hands. Here are some startling statistics to prove it. In China, one in five children is classified as obese.This is even more shocking when you consider that back in 1995, that numb...
Obesity is a major public health burden worldwide and is characterized by chronic low-grade inflammation driven by the cooperation of the innate immune system and dysregulated metabolism in adipose tissue and other metabolic organs. Receptor-interacting serine/threonine-protein kinase 1 (RIPK1) is a...