Obesity is a chronic condition that's progressive and often happens again after it seemed to be resolved . It's determined by your body mass index (BMI), a measure of body fat. You calculate your BMI using your height and weight on a BMI chart. Severe obesity is defined as a BMI of...
Home»Obesity»Topics of Interest» Are You a Candidate Body mass index (BMI) is measure of body weightand heightthat applies to both adult men and women.. BMI does not differentiate between body fat and muscle mass. Therefore, body builders and people who have a lot of muscle bulk ...
Obesity is one of the most prevalent somatic comorbidities of major depressive disorder (MDD). Both disorders rank among the leading challenges in public health and have been independently characterized by gray matter alterations in partly overlapping brain structures. Hence, it appears crucial to inves...
Childhood obesityMonitoringAim Body mass index (BMI) metrics are widely used as a proxy for adiposity in children with severe obesity. The BMI expressed as the percentage of a cut‐off percentile for overweight or obesity has been proposed as a better alternative than BMI z ‐scores when ...
To understand the incidence and persistence of severe obesity (≥1.2 × 95th BMI percentile-for-age) in girls across the transition to adolescence, and map developmental trajectories of adolescent severe obesity in a high-risk sample. Methods We examined ten years of prospectively collected da...
obesity-mediated effect. Ninety-five (0.99%) women developed severe pre-eclampsia, 47.6% were non-European immigrants, 16.3% were born in Sub-Saharan Africa, and 12.6% were obese (BMI > = 30 kg/m2). Women experiencing severe pre-eclampsia were more likely to be from Sub-Saharan...
Obesity is a major risk factor for many common diseases and has a substantial heritable component. To identify new genetic determinants, we performed exome-sequence analyses for adult body mass index (BMI) in up to 587,027 individuals. We identified rare
BMI = body mass index; CAD = coronary artery disease; HbA1c = glycosylated hemoglobin; HDL = high-density lipoprotein; hsCRP = high-sensitivity C-reactive protein; LDL = low-density lipoprotein; MOB = morbid obesity; NW = normal weight; OB = obesity; OW = overweight. Cardiac 13N-ammonia...
Figures & data Figure 1Study flow chart. Table 3Program End and Estimated Outcome Mean Change for the Entire Cohort and Stratified by BMI Category: Intent-to-Treat Analysis Download CSVDisplay Table Table 4Differences in Changes in Clinical Outcomes Across BMI Categories ...
A recent meta-analysis found that lifestyle interventions are effective in reducing the waist circumference, weight, and BMI in persons with severe mental disorders, as shown from changes of obesity parameters of in the intervention group compared to control group. These findings should be considered...