Over the past 50 years, obesity has become a major health problem in the USA. One of the things that most surprise Europeans who set foot in the USA for the first time is the huge number of fat people. Not just "fat" people, but people of sometimes massive proportions. Fifty years ...
Nutrition Examination Surveys and in the collection and management of the data; however, the National Center for Health Statistics and the CDC had no role in the analysis and interpretation of the data; in the preparation of the manuscript; or in the decision to submit the manuscript for ...
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Obesity is accompanied by dysfunction of many organs, but effects on the skin have received little attention. We studied differences in epithelial thickness by histology and gene expression by Affymetrix gene arrays and PCR in the skin of 10 obese (BMI 3
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Statistics show that childhood obesity is on the rise in Fiji. The prevalence increases with age with 12-14 per cent of 10–14-year-olds classified as overweight. About 8.1 per cent of children between the ages of 15 and 17 top the list among children in Fiji for being overweight. ...
Program in Biochemistry, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY 10016, USA 2 Department of Health and Nutrition Sciences, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY 11210, USA 3 Department of Public Health, Robbins College of Human Health and...
All the data analyses were conducted by SPSS 22.0 (IBM Corp, Armonk, NY, USA). 3. Results This study included 18,137 subjects with complete information of blood pressure, plasma glucose, serum lipids, BMI and WC. Subjects ranged in age from 18 to 79 (mean ± SD: 47.64 ± 13.18). ...
The most recent information from the National Center for Health Statistics demonstrates that 33% of U.S. grown-ups 20 years old and more established—more than 100 million individuals—are stout. This expansion is not restricted to grown-ups, but rather has likewise influenced youngsters. Among ...
After cleaning, the data were then converted and analyzed using Statistical Analysis System (SAS 9.3; SAS Institute Inc., NC, USA). Age (years) was categorized into ‘< 60’, ‘60–64’, ‘65–69’, and ‘≥ 70’. The hazard ratio (HR) of each factor and the 95% confidence ...