Obesity - Paediatric
Indices of insulin resistance in paediatric obesity
... Obesity and IR sets the stage for the risk of T2DM with its associated risk factors such as CVD and IR is observed in the paediatric obese population. Hence screening this group of obese children for the ...
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Obesity: Paradigm of Endothelial Dysfunction in Paediatric Age Groups
... world’s paediatric population has excess weight or obesity and 40% of these will be obese ...adults. Obesity is characterized by a chronic, low grade, pro-inflammatory process that ultimately results ...
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Abordagem Individual e Familiar da Obesidade em Idade Pediátrica : Monografia : Individual and Family Approach of Obesity in Paediatric Age
... Internacional Obesity TasckForce, a prevalência de excesso de peso (incluindo obesidade) foi encontrada em 25% das meninas entre os 13-19 anos, valor semelhante à média dos Estados Unidos da América (apesar de que ...
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Blood pressure, anthropometry and adiposity in a paediatric sample.
... associate obesity with hypertension ...general obesity measures is frequently studied in both children and adults [35- ...central obesity is an indicator of high probability of developing ...
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Association of FTO polymorphisms with obesity and obesity-related outcomes in Portuguese children.
... The advent of Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS) emerged as a powerful approach to identify genetic variants associated with common diseases [3]. Until now, GWAS deliver the identification of at least 52 genetic loci ...
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Paediatric Invasive Pneumococcal Disease Before Universal Vaccination: 1995 - 2015
... Discussão: Nas últimas duas décadas não se observou redução do número de casos de doença invasiva pneumocócica, tendo ocorrido um aumento da identificação de pneumococo em pneumonia e b[r] ...
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Machado et al 2016 British Journal of Haematology
... Xira, Portugal and 2 Paediatric Haematology Unit, Hospital de Dona Estef^ ania – Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Central, Lisbon, Portugal. E-mail: raquel.candido.machado@gmail.com[r] ...
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Elicitation of expert prior opinion: application to the MYPAN trial in childhood polyarteritis nodosa.
... Childhood PAN is a rare and severe multi-systemic vasculitic disease that affects approximate- ly 1 per million children [8]; a full clinical description is provided elsewhere [8, 9]. Untreated, mortality is close to ...
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Rev. Saúde Pública vol.46 número6
... In the model 1 (birth) of the polytomic logistic regres- sion analysis, the magnitude of the association of male gender with BBP/HT and birth length with BBP persisted after adjustment. In the model 2 (adulthood), the ...
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Alcohol consumption and obesity
... and obesity are well-documented: Diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, respiratory diseases and certain cancers, are more prevalent among overweight and obese individuals, than among those with normal ...(13). ...
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Jacobs Journal of Obesity
... The adiposity excess has as consequences metabolic complications which could predispose to the onset of chronic diseases concomitantly to induction of an inflammatory condition of low intensity by means of the secretion ...
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Emerging drugs for obesity therapy
... helpful to some patients in achieving and maintaining meaningful weight loss, but yet our pharmaceu- tical tools are of limited effectiveness considering the magnitude of the problem. At the present, only two drugs, ...
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Proteomics analysis of human obesity reveals the epigenetic factor HDAC4 as a potential target for obesity.
... Sedentary lifestyle and excessive energy intake are prominent contributors to obesity; a major risk factors for the development of insulin resistance, type β diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Elucidating the ...
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Obesity, energy balance and spermatogenesis
... Males with excess body weight due to a surplus of adipose tissue have reduced sperm, low binding capacity, low fertilisation ability and difficulties to undergo capacitation and acrosome reaction, which suggests that ...
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Versão brasileira do Paediatric Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire: validação de campo.
... Objective: To assess the psychometric properties of the official Brazilian Portuguese-language version of the Paediatric Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (PAQLQ) in a representative group of Brazilian children ...
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Arq. Gastroenterol. vol.52 número2
... The risk factors related to the presence of CAD in these Brazilian patients were male gender, smoking, type 2 diabetes, lower levels of HDL-cholesterol and a higher frequency of use of lipid-lowering drugs. NAFLD was ...
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Diabetes in Asians
... increasing obesity, a propensity for visceral obesity, impaired insulin se- cretion, reduced pancreatic β-cell mass, young age of diabetes onset, urbanization and modernization, increased microvascu- lar ...
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TREATMENT OF OBESITY: NEWER PERSPECTIVES
... )n the present scenario, to fight against the obesity epidemic, we require a drug with less side effect, faster action and metabolic advantages. The injectable incretin are there in market and these promise good ...
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Obesity, diet, and physical activity
... 30. There are very few studies that address the issues of economic costs of specific obesity treatment and preventive interventions. Most are cited in the WHO technical document but are marred with several ...
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Mitochondrial DNA variants in obesity.
... for obesity might be found in the sub-haplogroups and hence these variants or sub- haplogroups might have been masked by association testing of only the respective major ...
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