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Overweight Risks

NEWS:

Citing "Dangerous Increase" in Deaths, HHS Launches New Strategies Against Overweight Epidemic

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Medical Consequences of Obesity

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Obese Kids At Risk For Diabetes

Obese men can regain sexual function by losing weight and exercising

Obesity and erectile dysfunction

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Obesity hikes risk for nine types of cancers

Obesity Intensifies Short-term Effects of Air Pollution on Lung Function

Study Links Obesity, Male Breast Cancer

ARTICLES:

Depression and Obesity: A Complex Relationship

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

A 24-year follow-up of body mass index and cerebral atrophy (NEUROLOGY)

A comprehensive examination of health conditions associated with obesity in older adults. (Am J Prev Med)

Abdominal Obesity and Respiratory Function in Men and Women in the EPIC-Norfolk Study, United Kingdom (Am J Epidemiol)

Alterations in left ventricular structure and function in young healthy obese women: assessment by echocardiography and tissue Doppler imaging. (J Am Coll Cardiol)

Association of obesity and cancer risk in Canada. (Am J Epidemiol)

Body mass index and asthma incidence among USA adults. (Eur Respir J)

Body mass index and mortality among US male physicians. (Ann Epidemiol.)

Body Mass Index and Risk of Leukemia in Older Women. (Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev)

Body mass index as a prognostic feature in operable breast cancer: the International Breast Cancer Study Group experience (Annals of Oncology)

Central obesity and coronary risk factors. (J R Soc Health)

Central obesity and elevated liver enzymes. (Nutr Rev)

Changes in Body Weight and Body Fat Distribution as Risk Factors for Clinical Diabetes in US Men (Am. J. Epidemiol)

Childhood body mass index and later cancer risk: a 50-year follow-up of the Boyd Orr study. (Int J Cancer)

Current and adolescent body fatness and fat distribution: relationships with carotid intima-media thickness and large artery stiffness at the age of 36 years. (J Hypertens)

Duration of overweight and metabolic health risk in American men and women (Annals of Epidemiology)

Even Children Have Heart Disease -- Especially Those Who Are Overweight (Medscape Cardiology)

Exercise capacity and body composition as predictors of mortality among men with diabetes. (Diabetes Care)

Flow-resistant red blood cell aggregation in morbid obesity. (Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord)

Is obesity a risk factor for psychopathology among adolescents? (Pediatr Int)

Is obesity associated with major depression? Results from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. (Am J Epidemiol)

Long-term obesity is linked to loss of brain tissue (NEUROLOGY)

Medical consequences of obesity. (J Clin Endocrinol Metab)

Obesity and asthma in 11-12 year old New Zealand children in 1989 and 2000. (Thorax)

Obesity and breast cancer: a review of the literature. (Breast)

Obesity and cancer (Oncogene)

Obesity and colon cancer: does leptin provide a link? (Int J Cancer)

Obesity and biochemical outcome following radical prostatectomy for organ confined disease with negative surgical margins. (J Urol)

Obesity and the Development of Insulin Resistance and Impaired Fasting Glucose in Black and White Adolescent Girls: A longitudinal study (Diabetes Care)

Obesity and the impact of chronic pain. (Clin J Pain)

Obesity as a risk factor for cerebrovascular disease. (Keio J Med)

Obesity as the core of the metabolic syndrome and the management of coronary heart disease. (Curr Med Res Opin)

Obesity exacerbates oxidative stress levels after acute exercise. (Med Sci Sports Exerc)

Obesity in Adolescence and Adulthood and the Risk of Adult Mortality (Epidemiology)

Obesity linked to abnormal heartbeat

Obesity to Overtake Smoking as Leading Cause of Death (Drug Benefit Trends)

Overweight Children and Adolescents: A Risk Group for Iron Deficiency (PEDIATRICS)

Overweight in children is associated with arterial endothelial dysfunction and intima-media thickening (International Journal of Obesity)

Prepregnant overweight and obesity diminish the prolactin response to suckling in the first week postpartum. (Pediatrics)

Relation of Body Mass Index in Young Adulthood and Middle Age to Medicare Expenditures in Older Age (JAMA)

Sagittal abdominal diameter and risk of sudden death in asymptomatic middle-aged men: the Paris Prospective Study I. (Circulation)

Severe obesity associated with cardiovascular deconditioning, high prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors, diabetes mellitus/hyperinsulinemia, and respiratory compromise. (J Pediatr)

Snoring, hypertension and Type 2 diabetes in obesity. Protection by physical activity. (J Endocrinol Invest)

The relationship between serum cytokine levels with obesity and obstructive sleep apnea syndrome. (Cytokine)

The role of overweight and obesity in calcium oxalate stone formation. (Obes Res)

Truncal Adiposity, Relative Growth Hormone Deficiency and Cardiovascular Risk. (J Clin Endocrinol Metab)

Undiagnosed obesity: implications for undiagnosed hypertension, diabetes, and hypercholesterolemia. (Fam Med)

Visceral Adiposity Is an Independent Predictor of Incident Hypertension in Japanese Americans (Annals of Internal Medicine)

Waist circumference and not body mass index explains obesity-related health risk (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition)

Waist circumference is a better predictor than body mass index of coronary heart disease risk in overweight premenopausal women. (J Nutr)

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