Johner Riehl: So what is the current prevalence of childhood obesity in the United States? Lindsay Stenovec: Well I think we all at this point have heard a lot about childhood obesity. In the media it’s a very hot topic we are hearing about it on the news, we are hearing about it ...
The researchers also questioned using the BMI index as a guide to growth, which is based on European babies primarily breast-fed in the first year. In the United States, many babies have only formula feedings. These findings could potentially change the age at which obesity is typically diagno...
Purpose: To characterize the prevalence of and contributing factors to adult obesity in the most common recurrent copy-number variation (CNV), 22q11.2 deletion, given that other rare CNVs are known to have obesity phenotypes. Methods: In 207 adults with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11.2DS), ...
UnderstandingAdult ObesityWIN Weight-control Information NetworkToday, more than 65 percent of adults in the United States are “Obesity” specifically refersoverweight or obese. Obesity puts people at increased risk forchronic ...
F. Estrogen receptor status and the future burden of invasive and in situ breast cancers in the United States. J. Natl Cancer Inst. 107, djv159 (2015). PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Heer, E. et al. Global burden and trends in premenopausal and postmenopausal breast cancer: a ...
Obesity, as a chronic and sophisticated modern global epidemic [1], has been found to reduce life expectancy and increase the risk of numerous illnesses [2]. Obesity prevalence in the United States increased from 30.5% to 42.4% between 1999 and 2018. Meanwhile, according to the most recent ...
“all states and territories had more than 15 percent of adults who were physically inactive.” The analysis included state maps that used combined data from 2015 through 2018 with “noticeable differences in the prevalence of physical inactivity by race/ethnicity.” Physical inactivity is reported ...
African American women have the highest rates of obesity in the United States. The prevalence of obesity in this group calls for the identification of psychosocial factors that increase risk. Psychological stress has been associated with obesity in women; however, there is scant literature that has...
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is the third leading cause of cancer death in the United States and is expected to become the second within the next decade (Rahib et al., 2014, Siegel et al., 2020). Despite the development of combination chemotherapy, targeted small molecules, and imm...
Leukemia is the most diagnosed cancer in children (20–25% of all diagnosed cases) and the 6th most diagnosed cancer in the United States each year21,22,23. Given the rising obesity rates in children and adults24,25,26, along with the association between obesity and carcinogenesis27,28,29...