Obesity and chronic diseases, whose business?

Obesity and Eye Diseases

Background: Obesity is a chronic metabolic disease that has become an epidemic today.  Objective: Although the effects of obesity on the body have been well studied, less is known about obesity and eye health. Methods The present article is a review study. The search was performed using keywords of obesity and eye diseases in PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science databases from 2000 to 2021.  Resul...

Obesity and the Incidence of Chronic Diseases:

Western societies can reduce avoidable mortality and morbidity by better understanding the relationship between obesity and chronic disease. This paper examines the joint determinants of obesity and of heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, and elevated cholesterol. It analyzes a broadly representative Spanish dataset, the 1999 Survey on Disabilities, Impairments and Health Status, using a heal...

Food Insecurity and Chronic Diseases: The Editorial

Efficacy of therapeutic patient education in chronic diseases and obesity.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the clinical, methodological and reporting aspects of systematic reviews and meta-analyses in order to determine the efficacy of therapeutic patient education (TPE). METHODS A thorough search of the medical and nursing literature recorded in MedLine database from 1999 to August 2009 was conducted using the keywords: patient education, efficacy, diabetes, asthma, COPD, hy...

Breastfeeding, Childhood Obesity and the Prevention of Chronic Diseases

After carefully reviewing the scientific evidence, the USA Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) concluded that there are only two potential, cost-effective interventions that can be put into place immediately to deal with the childhood obesity epidemic: decreased television viewing and breastfeeding promotion. The purpose of this editorial is to summarize the evidence linking breastf...