Browsing by Subject "Obesity"

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    • Obesity and excess weight in early adulthood and high risks of arsenic-related cancer in later life 
      Steinmaus, Craig; Castriota, Felicia; Ferreccio, Catterina; Smith, Allan H.; Yuan, Yan; Liaw, Jane; Acevedo, Johanna; Pérez, Liliana; Meza, Rodrigo; Calcagno, Sergio; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo; Smith, Martyn T. (Elsevier, 2015)
      Background: Elevated body mass index (BMI) is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, and other diseases. Inflammation or oxidative stress induced by high BMI may explain some of these effects. Millions ...
    • Obesity and impairment of pancreatic beta-cellfunction in early adulthood, independent of obesity age of ... 
      Burrows Argote, Raquel; Correa Burrows, Paulina; Bunout Barnett, Daniel; Barrera Acevedo, Gladys; Rogan Castillo, José; Kim, Elissa; Blanco, Estela; Gahagan, Sheila (Wiley, 2020)
      Aim: We investigated the relation of time of onset and length of obesity with biomarkers of beta-cell function in early adulthood in an infancy cohort. Material and methods: In 1039 23-year-olds, body-mass index (BMI) ...
    • Obesity and Related Metabolic Biomarkers and Its Association with Serum Levels of Estrogen in Pre-pubertal ... 
      Mesa Valencia, Diana Carolina; Mericq, Verónica; Corvalán Aguilar, Camila; Pereira Scalabrino, Ana (Taylor & Francis, 2020)
      Purpose: Recent reports show that girls with higher body mass index (BMI) have an earlier puberty onset (thelarche). It has been suggested that earlier puberty is a consequence of higher levels of estrogen due to increased ...
    • Obesity is associated with acute inflammation in a sample of adolescents 
      Reyes Jedlicki, Marcela; Quintanilla, Cristina; Burrows, Raquel; Blanco, Estela; Cifuentes, Mariana; Gahagan, Sheila (Wiley, 2015)
      Background: Obesity is associated with a mild chronic inflammatory response, which has been suggested to be pivotal in the development of cardiometabolic alterations of obesity. However, little is known about the involvement ...
    • Obesity leads to declines in motor skills across childhood 
      Cheng, J.; East, P.; Blanco, E.; Sim, E. Kang; Castillo, M.; Lozoff, B.; Gahagan, S. (Jonh Wiley, 2016)
      BackgroundPoor motor skills have been consistently linked with a higher body weight in childhood, but the causal direction of this association is not fully understood. This study investigated the temporal ordering between ...
    • Obesogenic environment - intervention opportunities 
      Fisberg, Mauro; Maximino, Priscila; Kain Berkovic, Juliana; Kovalskys, Irina (Soc Brasil Pediatria, 2016)
      Objectives: To evaluate environmental obesogenic-related factors, such as physical activity in neighborhoods and schools, nutritional behavior, and intervention programs. Sources: Critical analysis of literature with ...
    • Prepubertal Adiposity, Vitamin D Status, and Insulin Resistance 
      Cediel, Gustavo; Corvalán Aguilar, Camila; López de Romaña, Daniel; Mericq, Verónica; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo (Amer Acad Pediatrics, 2016)
      OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the following from prepuberty to the puberty-onset: (1) changes in serum 25-hydroxyvitamin-D (25[OH]D), adiposity, and insulin resistance (IR); (2) the effect of prepubertal adiposity on serum 25(OH)D ...
    • Reducing Food Loss And Waste While Improving The Public's Health 
      Neff, Roni A.; Kanter, Rebecca; Vandevijvere, Stefanie (Project Hope, 2015)
      An estimated 30 percent of the global food supply is lost or wasted, as is about 40 percent of the US food supply. There are valuable synergies between efforts to reduce food loss and waste and those promoting public ...
    • Science and health policies to tackle chronic diseases in Chile 
      Bambs, Claudia; Bravo Sagua, Roberto; Margozzini, Paula; Lavandero González, Sergio (Elsevier, 2020)
      Chile has experienced rapid epidemiological transitions characterized by decreasing infant mortality, population aging, and a shift towards obesity with an increase in noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Today, tobacco, ...
    • Short communication: obesity intervention resulting in significant changes in the human gut viral composition 
      Sandoval Vargas, Diego Esteban; Concha Rubio, Nataly D.; Navarrete Wallace, Paola Alejandra; Castro, Matías; Medina, Daniel A. (MDPI, 2021)
      Obesity is a health problem of global concern that negatively impacts quality of life. Various studies have implicated obesity in the disruption of the normal microbiome composition. The virome consists of a collection ...
    • Systematic evidence and gap map of research linking food security and nutrition to mental health 
      Sparling, Thalia M.; Deeney, Megan; Cheng, Bryan; Han, Xuerui; Lier, Chiara; Lin, Zhuozhi; Offner, Claudia; Santoso, Marianne V.; Pfeiffer, Erin; Emerson, Julián A.; Amadi, Florence Mariamu; Mitu, Khadija; Corvalán Aguilar, Camila Luz; Verdeli, Helen; Araya, Ricardo; Kadiyala, Suneetha (Nature Portfolio, 2022)
      Connections between food security and nutrition (FSN) and mental health have been analytically investigated, but conclusions are difficult to draw given the breadth of literature. Furthermore, there is little guidance ...
    • The degree of engagement of overweight/obese adult women in the recommended activities of the chilean “Vida ... 
      Mellado Peña, Fernanda Javiera; Mitchell, Nia; Leyton Dinamarca, Bárbara de Lourdes; Kain Berkovic, Juliana Agota (Arán Ediciones, 2021)
      Introduction: the Chilean Ministry of Health implements the Vida Sana (VS) program with the objective of reducing risk factors for chronic diseases in overweight/obese (OW/OB) individuals, aged 2-64. Objective: to ...