Obesity classification is a ranking of obesity, the medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it has an adverse effect...
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Some East Asian countries use lower values to calculate obesity. Obesity is a major cause of disability and is correlated with various diseases and conditions...
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Abdominal obesity, also known as central obesity and truncal obesity, is the human condition of an excessive concentration of visceral fat around the...
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Waist-to-height ratio (redirect from Index of Central Obesity)
values of WHtR indicate higher risk of obesity-related cardiovascular diseases; it is correlated with abdominal obesity. More than twenty-five years ago, waist-to-height...
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percentage, leading to some of the same health risks as obesity. The term "metabolically obese normal weight" (MONW) refers to people with normal weight...
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Bariatric surgery (redirect from Obesity surgery)
used to manage obesity and obesity-related conditions. Long term weight loss with bariatric surgery may be achieved through alteration of gut hormones,...
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Australia found that obesity in Australia more than doubled in the two decades preceding 2003, and the unprecedented rise in obesity has been compared to...
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The obesity paradox is the finding in some studies of a lower mortality rate for overweight or obese people within certain subpopulations. The paradox...
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Body mass index (category Classification of obesity)
index as an indicator of relative obesity". The interest in an index that measures body fat came with observed increasing obesity in prosperous Western...
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prevalence of childhood obesity is known to differ by sex and gender. Body mass index (BMI) is acceptable for determining obesity for children two years of age...
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Anti-obesity medication or weight loss medications are pharmacological agents that reduce or control excess body fat. These medications alter one of the...
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side of the heart caused by OHS, and spirometry may show a restrictive pattern related to obesity. Obesity hypoventilation syndrome is a form of sleep...
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20th century that obesity became common — so much so that, in 1997, the World Health Organization (WHO) formally recognized obesity as a global epidemic...
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Bariatrics Obesity and walking Social stigma of obesity EPODE International Network, the world's largest obesity-prevention network World Fit A program of the...
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Body fat percentage (category Classification of obesity)
Fryar, Carroll, Afful (5 February 2021). "Prevalence of Overweight, Obesity, and Severe Obesity Among Adults Aged 20 and Over: United States, 1960–1962...
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Pignet Index (category Classification of obesity)
Pignet Index or Body Build Index is an index used for evaluation of body build. It was suggested in 1901 by Maurice–Charles–Joseph Pignet, who was a French...
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and New Zealand), despite large differences in each country's obesity rate. Benefits of physical activity Plateau effect Set point theory Pontzer, Herman...
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Waist–hip ratio (category Classification of obesity)
measurement of obesity, which in turn is a possible indicator of other more serious health conditions. The WHO states that abdominal obesity is defined...
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R.; Yavuz, Y.; Hochberg, Z. (September 2012). "Hypothalamic obesity in children". Obesity Reviews. 13 (9): 780–798. doi:10.1111/j.1467-789X.2012.01004...
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Obesity is a risk factor for many chronic physical and mental illnesses. The health effects of being overweight but not obese are controversial, with...
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Human body weight (redirect from Estimation of weight)
mass index (BMI) Classification of obesity Emaciation Hesse's Rule History of anthropometry Human height List of heaviest people Obesity Overweight Set...
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With Obesity". Obesity. 17 (7): 1441–1447. doi:10.1038/oby.2009.97. ISSN 1930-739X. PMC 2745942. PMID 19360012. Katz, Anne (October 2017). "Obesity and...
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Bariatrics (category Obesity)
discipline that deals with the causes, prevention, and treatment of obesity, encompassing both obesity medicine and bariatric surgery. The term bariatrics was...
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classes are divisions of competition used to match competitors against others of their own size. Weight classes are used in a variety of sports including rowing...
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Overweight (redirect from Pre obese)
a BMI of 25 or more, thus it includes pre-obesity defined as a BMI between 25 and 29.9 and obesity as defined by a BMI of 30 or more. Pre-obese and overweight...
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Bioelectrical impedance analysis (category Classification of obesity)
X-ray absorptiometry". Obesity Facts. 1 (6): 319–324. doi:10.1159/000176061. PMC 6452160. PMID 20054195. One of the eight authors of this study is employed...
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Obesity in Thailand has been flagged as a major source of health concern, with 32% of the population identifying as overweight and 9% obese. With reference...
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deficit) is any shortage in the number of calories consumed relative to the number of calories needed for maintenance of current body weight (energy homeostasis)...
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Corpulence index (category Classification of obesity)
183. Retrieved August 31, 2015. Lawrence F. Ditmier: New Developments in Obesity Research. Nova Science Publishers, Hauppauge, New York 2006,...
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Diabesity (category Classification of obesity)
co-occurrence of obesity and type 2 diabetes; excess body fat is the most significant risk factor for type 2 diabetes. The global disease burden of obesity and...
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