Obesity is a condition in which excess fat has accumulated in the body, such that it can have an adverse effect on health. Obesity is defined as a body mass index (BMI) of greater than 30 kg/m2. Featured Reverse
According to the Obesity Medicine Association: “Obesity is defined as a chronic, progressive, relapsing, and treatable multifactorial, neurobehavioral disease, where an increase in body fat promotes adipose tissue dysfunction and abnormal fat mass physical forces, resulting in adverse metabolic, biomechani...
OBESITY, DEFINED BY BODY MASS INDEX OF NO LESS THAN 25 kg/m2, IS A RISK FACTOR FOR POOR ASTHMA CONTROL IN EAST‐ASIAN FEMALE POPULATIONStest. The primary clinical end point was the combined symptom and medication score (SMS). Results: SCIT patients had much significant decreased in SMS at...
The prevalence of obesity has tripled over the past four decades, imposing an enormous burden on people’s health. Polygenic (or common) obesity and rare, severe, early-onset monogenic obesity are often polarized as distinct diseases. However, gene disco
Excessive fat deposition in obesity has a multifactorial aetiology, but is widely considered the result of disequilibrium between energy intake and expenditure. Despite specific public health policies and individual treatment efforts to combat the obesit
Background: Body mass index (BMI) is the most widespread and the simplest method for the evaluation of body mass; it is often used as a sole technique in the diagnosis of obesity in children. The objective of the study was to evaluate the relationship between anthropometric and biochemical pa...
Main Outcomes and Measures The primary outcomes were prevalence of obesity, specified as general obesity, defined as body mass index (BMI; calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared) of 30 or greater, and abdominal obesity, defined as waist circumference greater than 102...
Under a Creative Commons license Open accessHighlights Summary Stimulation of adipose tissue thermogenesis is regarded as a promising avenue in the treatment of obesity. However, pharmacologic engagement of this process has proven difficult. Using the Connectivity Map (CMap) approach, we identified the ...
Obesity is an excessive accumulation of body fat, usually caused by the consumption of more calories than the body can use. The excess calories are then stored as fat, or adipose tissue.
Obesity, defined as a body mass index (BMI)⩾30, is a major global public health concern, with over 500 million people worldwide classified as overweight or obese.1As well as being linked to metabolic disorders,2,3,4the maximum muscle strength produced by obese individuals is significantly ...