Obesity is a rapidly growing global problem. It is not simply the result of eating too much, and not all types of obesity have the same significance. Obesity is in part genetic, and one particularly important genetic type of obesity is the tendency to 'truncal obesity',-that is, a ...
Review article: Herbal approach for obesity management. Am J Plant Sci, 2012; 3:1003-1014.C. V. Chandrasekaran, M. A. Vijayalakshmi, K. Prakash, V. S. Bansal, J. Meenakshi, A. Amit. (2012) Review Article: Herbal Approach for Obesity Management. American Journal of Plant Sciences 03...
Obesity is associated with an increased risk for early death, heart disease and stroke, disability and several other comorbidities. Although there is concern about the potential burden on health-care services with the aging demographic and the increasing
Observations on the WHO-Europe ministerial conference, Istanbul, November 15-17, 2006. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act. 2007, 4: 11-10.1186/1479-5868-4-11. Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Knai C, Suhrcke M, Lobstein T: Obesity in Eastern Europe: an overview of its health and...
Next article in issue Keywords Adiposopathy Adiposopathic dyslipidemia Cholesterol Obesity Triglycerides 1. Introduction According to the Obesity Medicine Association (OMA), obesity can be defined as a: “serious, chronic, progressive, relapsing, and treatable multi-factorial, neurobehavioral disease, where...
1., 2., 3. The growing worldwide obesity epidemic has become a public health crisis, affecting many countries. In the United States, obesity is now the second leading cause of preventable disease and death, surpassed only by smoking. There has been increasing interest on the role of the ...
Obesity in Adolescents ImportanceObesity affects approximately 21% of US adolescents and is associated with insulin resistance, hypertension, dyslipidemia, sleep disorders, depression, and musculoskeletal problems. Obesity during adolescence has also been associated with an increased risk of mortality from ...
Conditions such as obesity, obstructive sleep apnea, major head/neck and upper airway surgery, and obstetric and cervical spine procedures carry significantly increased risks of extubation failure and are frequently associated with difficult airway management. Extubation failure follows loss of upper airway...
Obesity, the most common comorbidity in SARS-CoV-2: is leptin the link? Article 09 July 2020 Association of COVID-19 with diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis Article Open access 23 November 2022 References World Health Organization. WHO Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Dashboard...
Cite this article Sarwer, D.B., Lavery, M. & Spitzer, J.C. A Review of the Relationships Between Extreme Obesity, Quality of Life, and Sexual Function.OBES SURG22, 668–676 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11695-012-0588-1