Browsing by Subject "Obesity"

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    • Demographic, social and health-related variables that predict normal-weight preschool children having ... 
      Kain, Juliana; Leyton, Bárbara; Baur, Louise; Lira, Mariana; Corvalán Aguilar, Camila (MDPI AG, 2019)
      We determined which variables are predictive of normal-weight (N) Chilean 4-year-olds developing overweight/obesity when entering primary school. This study used national data of preschoolers (PK, age 4) in 2011 through ...
    • Eating in the Absence of Hunger and Obesity Among Adolescents in Santiago, Chile 
      Blanco, E.; Reyes, M.; Burrows, Raquel; Gahagan, S. (Springer New York LLC, 2019)
      © 2018, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.In reports among mostly, US, white, preschool and young school-age children eating in the absence of hunger (EAH) has been positively related to adiposity, ...
    • Effectiveness of an intervention of dietary counseling for overweight and obese pregnant women in the ... 
      Anleu, Elisa; Reyes, Marcela; Marcela Araya, B.; Flores, Marcela; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo; Garmendia, María Luisa (MDPI AG, 2019)
      Objective: Evaluate if an intervention based on nutritional counseling decreases total sugars and energy consumption in overweight and obese pregnant women, compared to their previous consumption and compared to women who ...
    • Light smoking is associated with metabolic syndrome risk factors in Chilean young adults 
      Cheng, Evaline; Burrows, Raquel; Correa, Paulina; Güichapani, Carmen Gloria; Blanco, Estela; Gahagan, Sheila (Springer-Verlag Italia s.r.l., 2019)
      © 2019, Springer-Verlag Italia S.r.l., part of Springer Nature.Aims: Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a cluster of risk factors for cardiometabolic diseases. While cigarette smoking is associated with MetS in adults, young ...
    • Nutritional and non-nutritional agents that stimulate white adipose tissue browning 
      Concha, F.; Prado, G.; Quezada, J.; Ramirez, A.; Bravo, N.; Flores, C.; Herrera, J. J.; Lopez, N.; Uribe, D.; Duarte-Silva, L.; Lopez-Legarrea, P.; Garcia-Diaz, Diego F. (Springer New York LLC, 2019)
      Obesity is a public health problem present in both developed and developing countries. The white adipose tissue (WAT) is the main deposit of lipids when there is an excess of energy. Its pathological growth is directly ...
    • Predicting nationwide obesity from food sales using machine learning 
      Dunstan, Jocelyn; Aguirre Jerez, Marcela; Bastías García, Magdalena; Nau, Claudia; Glass, Thomas A.; Tobar, Felipe (SAGE, 2020)
      The obesity epidemic progresses everywhere across the globe, and implementing frequent nationwide surveys to measure the percentage of obese population is costly. Conversely, country-level food sales information can be ...