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Overweight - Obesity
NIH - Medical Encyclopedia Obesity
"Obesity is also defined as a BMI (body mass index) over 30 kg/m2. Patients with a BMI between 25 and 29.9 are considered overweight, but not obese. … Obesity increases a person's risk of illness and death due to diabetes, stroke, coronary artery disease, hypertension, high cholesterol, and kidney and gallbladder disorders. Obesity may increase the risk for some types of cancer. It is also a risk factor for the development of osteoarthritis and sleep apnea. Genetic factors play some part in the development of obesity -- children of obese parents are 10 times more likely to be obese than children with parents of normal weight."
Highlighted Article[Lifestyle intervention in the treatment of severe obesity.] (Ugeskr Laeger. 2006)
"CONCLUSION: After 15 weeks of intensive lifestyle intervention, there were significant improvements in aerobic fitness and metabolic risk parameters, and the observed weight loss was equivalent to that obtained by surgical treatment. Decisive in the choice of obesity treatment will continue to be the extent of success in permanent weight loss."
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Overweight - Obesity Risks
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Being overweight ups stroke risk, study confirms “People who were overweight were 22 percent more likely to suffer an ischemic stroke than normal weight people, while the risk for obese people was 64 percent higher, the researchers found. Hemorrhagic stroke risk wasn't higher for overweight people, but it was 24 percent higher for obese people.”
Belly Fat Is Culprit in Stroke Gender Gap
Even modest weight gain can harm blood vessels, Mayo researchers find “Among those who gained weight in their abdomens (known as visceral fat), even though their blood pressure remained healthy, researchers found that the regulation of blood flow through their arm arteries was impaired due to endothelial dysfunction. Once the volunteers lost the weight, the blood flow recovered. Blood flow regulation was unchanged in the weight-maintainers and was less affected among those who gained weight evenly throughout their bodies.”
Excess Weight Raises Risk for Liver Disease “Comment: Add liver disease to the long list of detrimental health effects (e.g., cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer) of excess body weight. Data from these two studies also suggest that excess body weight and alcohol consumption act synergistically to cause liver disease. Given the high prevalence of overweight and obesity, these results have obvious public health implications.”
Obesity and Colon Cancer a Deadly Combination
Obesity and depression are a two-way street “Obesity, Luppino and colleagues found, increases the risk of depression in initially non-depressed individuals by 55 percent and depression increases the risk of obesity in initially normal-weight individuals by 58 percent.”
Obesity and Physical Inactivity Poses Arthritis Risk, Especially for Women
Obesity at Age 20 Linked to Early Death
Obesity Can Shorten Life, Analysis Finds “With a body mass index (BMI) of 40 or higher, the morbidly obese had a death rate more than double that of those of normal weight, according to study author Amy Berrington de Gonzalez.”
Obesity Linked to Clear-Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma
Obesity Linked to Increased Cancer Mortality Risk in Asia/Pacific Region
Obesity May Interfere With Vitamin D Absorption “The more obese a person is, the poorer his or her vitamin D status, a new study by a team of Norwegian researchers suggests. The study found an inverse relationship between excess pounds and an insufficient amount of vitamin D, which is critical to cell health, calcium absorption and proper immune function. Vitamin D deficiency can raise the risk for bone deterioration and certain types of cancer. The researchers also suggest that overweight and obese people may have problems processing the vitamin properly.”
Obesity Ups Cancer Risk, and Here's How “Karin's team shows that liver cancer is fostered by the chronic inflammatory state that goes with obesity, and two well known inflammatory factors in particular. The findings suggest that anti-inflammatory drugs that have already been taken by millions of people for diseases including rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn's disease may also reduce the risk of cancer in those at high risk due to obesity and perhaps other factors as well, Karin said.”
Obesity -- Mild or Severe -- Raises Kidney Stone Risk
Study: Being overweight, not just obese, raises death risk “The latest research involving about 1.5 million people concluded that healthy white adults who were overweight were 13% more likely to die during the time they were followed in the study than those whose weight is in an ideal range. "Having a little extra meat on your bones — if that meat happens to be fat — is harmful, not beneficial," said Dr. Michael Thun of the American Cancer Society, senior author of the study. The study's conclusions, published in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, are similar to three other large studies, said the lead author, Amy Berrington of the National Cancer Institute. "Now there's really a very large body of evidence which supports the finding that being overweight is associated with a small increased risk of death," Berrington said.”
Tummy Fat May Threaten Women's Bones
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JOURNAL ARTICLES:
Body mass index as predictor for asthma: a cohort study of 118 723 males and females. (Eur Respir J. 2010)
Changes in waist circumference and mortality in middle-aged men and women. (PLoS One. 2010)
Longitudinal Examination of Obesity and Cognitive Function: Results from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (Neuroepidemiology 2010) “Conclusion: Obesity indices showed similar associations to cognitive function, and further work is needed to clarify the physiological mechanisms that link obesity to poor neurocognitive outcome.”
Obesity and weight change in relation to breast cancer survival. (Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2010) “Our study suggests that obesity and weight change after diagnosis are inversely associated with breast cancer prognosis. Weight control is important among women with breast cancer.”
Obesity in pregnancy. (Obstet Gynaecol Can. 2010)
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