The following study compared the food choices made by overweight and non-overweight preschoolers while role-playing a mother who bought food for a family, and examined the influence of maternal restriction on food choice. After screening 619 children for height and weight, 56 overweight children (equal sex distribution, ages 4-6) and 56 non-overweight children (matched on age, sex, demographics...

PURPOSE To describe the clinical characteristics and outcomes after inguinal hernia repair in overweight and obese patients. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 636 adult patients who underwent mesh plug inguinal hernia repair performed by one surgeon from November 2001 to January 2009.The clinical characteristics and surgical outcomes of the patients were analyzed. Acc...

Background: Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and obesity have a lower risk of early death than patients normal weight due to the so-called “obesity paradox”. Available publications discuss three phenotypes obesity: classical obesity, metabolically healthy overweight/obesity, latent (normal associated metabolic disorders, most importantly - insulin resistance adipocytokines imbalance). Ob...

PURPOSE To investigate the combined prognostic impact of body mass index (BMI) and tumor standardized uptake value (SUV) measured on pretreatment 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG PET/CT) in patients with breast cancer. METHODS We evaluated a cohort of 332 patients with newly diagnosed breast cancer (stage I-III) who underwent pretreatment FDG PET/CT...

There is no recent study on the prevalence of overweight and obesity in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) in Japan. Being overweight has a significant effect on the metabolic condition and glycemic control of such patients. In the present cross-sectional study, we investigated the effects of body mass index (BMI) on lipid profile, blood pressure, and glycemic control in patients wit...

OBJECTIVE To estimate and compare the prevalences of overweight, obesity, pre-diabetes and diabetes among a nationally representative sample of Mexican-American, non-Latino white and black adults, and by acculturation for Mexican-Americans. DESIGN, SETTINGS AND PARTICIPANTS The NHANES 1999-2008 data sets were used. Binomial regression models were used to compute prevalence ratios and their re...

The aim of this study was to determine whether single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of matrix metallopeptidase 2 (MMP2) are associated with obesity. MMP2 is an enzyme with proteolytic activity against matrix and nonmatrix proteins, particularly basement membrane constituents. To identify the relationship between polymorphisms of MMP2 and overweight/obese, we genotyped 5 SNPs (rs17242319, rs10...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the prevalence and associated factors with overweight and obesity among children under five in the Alagoas state, Northeast of Brazil. DESIGN Cross-sectional population-based study. The study was based on 1115 children with an average age of 24.7 months (SD ± 16.8), and 51.7% were female. Nutritional status was classified according to BMI / age. The z score > + 1 and ...