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HEALTH is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancement in human health. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for physicians, health researchers and academics all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in health related problems. All manuscripts mu…
Djeyne Silveira Wagmacker, Karla Kurzendorff Souza, Julia Vieira da Graca, Geodania da Costa Barreto, Paula Caroline Souza Macêdo, Tamara Felix Ferreira, Ana M. Ladeia
Introduction: High postprandial triglyceride levels and obesity are associated with coronaropathy, and influence the pathogenesis and progression of atherosclerosis. Objective: To evaluate the effect of immediate acute physical exercise on postprandial hyperl…
M. Vámosi, B. L. Heitmann, M. Thinggaard, K. O. Kyvik
Background: The etiology of adult obesity is still poorly understood. It has been shown that over-weight children suffer from adverse psychological events, but less is known about the association of adverse psychological factors among normal weight children a…
Manisha Sankhla, Keerti Mathur, Jai Singh Rathor
The present study was designed to explore the possible mechanism of obesity associated metabolic syndrome. 150 subjects (120 men and 30 women) in the age-group of 17 - 26 years were studied. Body Mass Index and Waist-to-Hip Ratio were taken as a measure of ge…
Claudia Hantschel, Asja Wagener, Christina Neuschl, Armin O. Schmitt, Gudrun A. Brockmann
Leptin and adiponectin are the most abundant adipokines that regulate energy homeostasis. Here, we report the changes of leptin and adiponectin in response to age and their depot- specific expression in lean and genetically obese mice. Fat deposition patterns…
Azadeh Alimadad, Carrie Matteson, Warren L. Hare, Ozge Karanfil, Diane T. Finegood
Modeling population trends and predicting the impact of interventions to address obesity requires algorithms for predicting body weight status in the future. Predictions can be based on statistical consideration of different risk factors, or be an extrapolati…
Stephanie Bernell
Overweight and obese individuals are at increased risk for many diseases and health conditions, including but not limited to the following: hypertension; osteoarthritis; dyslipidemia; type 2 diabetes; coronary heart disease and stroke. Consequently, individua…
Annabelle Wilson, Michelle Jones, Janet Kelly, Anthea Magarey
Childhood obesity is a growing concern world-wide, and obesity rates are higher in certain groups in the developed world, including Aus tralian Aboriginal people. Community-based obesity prevention interventions (CBOPI) can help to address obesity, however th…
Catherine Bégin, Marie-ève St-Louis, Sophie Turmel, Béatrice Tousignant, Louis-Philippe Marion, Francine Ferland, Nadine Blanchette-Martin, Marie-Pierre Gagnon-Girouard
Neurophysiological and behavioral similarities have been evidenced between excessive food consumption leading to obesity and addiction to other substances. In accordance, food addiction was defined following the DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for substance depend…
Roschelle Heuberger, Patrick Kinnicutt, Tanya Domina
Technologies such as 3-dimensional body scanners and thermal cameras are currently being investigated to eliminate the traditional means of assessing anthropometrics in the overweight and obese population. The purpose of this study was to determine the potent…
Ketevan Rtveladze, Tim Marsh, Laura Webber, Fanny Kilpi, Yevgeniy Goryakin, Anna Kontsevaya, Antonina Starodubova, Klim McPherson, Martin Brown
Similar to most developed countries, obesity rates inRussiahave been steadily increasing. This has led to a high burden of obesity related diseases and associated healthcare costs. The micro-simulation model has been utilized to project body mass index (BMI)…
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HEALTH is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancement in human health. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for physicians, health researchers and academics all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in health related problems. All manuscripts mu… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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