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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…
Lillian Mwanri, Wendy Foley, John Coveney, Robert Muller, Fiona Verity, Paul R. Ward, Patricia Carter, Philip Mohr, Anne Taylor
This paper reviews literature on the relationship between food supply and obesity. The focus is on the supply, cost, and variety of food through various types of food outlets and the impact of these factors on obesity in developed countries. The article revea…
Ian James Martins, Andrea. C. Wilson, Wei Ling Florence Lim, Simon. M. Laws, Stephanie. J. Fuller, Ralph Nigel Martins
Obesity, especially at mid-life, is a major risk factor for atherosclerosis, insulin resistance and the metabolic syndrome, which in turn contribute to coronary artery disease (CAD), Type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The rise in overweight and obe…
Stephanie Kuku, John Dick, Adeola Olaitan
There is an obesity epidemic in the Western World. Currently one in four adults is obese and three in ten children in the UK is overweight or obese [1]. The UK Foresight Study [2] predicts that if nothing is done, this figure will rise to five in ten (50%) in…
Bisakha Sen, Payal Patel-Dovlatabadi
Objectives: Obesity rates in US are substantially higher among African-Americans than Whites. Racial disparities in obesity are sometimes ascribed to racial differences in socio-economic-status (SES). We used data from three states in the southern region of t…
Juan Ybarra, June H. Romeo, Sandra Férnandez, Joan Sanchez-Hernandez
Introduction: Despite the bulk of evidence between obesity and cardiovascular complications, the effect of the duration of obesity (DOO) on cardiac function has so far received limited attention. The aim of the study is to study the relationship between a new…
Paulina Correa-Burrows, Raquel Burrows, Ricardo Uauy, Cecilia Albala
Background: Adolescent obesity is associated with high cardiovascular and metabolic risk. Western diet and reduced physical activity are strong environmental determinants. The “Health Production” model posits that individuals born with a certain amount of hea…
Masataka Kusunoki, Kazuhiko Tsutsumi, Daisuke Sato, Takao Nakamura
Obesity is one of the fast-growing major diseases in developed and developing countries. As has been persuasively argued, long-term imbalance between intake and expenditure of fat is a central factor in the etiology of obesity. Obesity aggravates insulin resi…
Minako Koga, Kohta Suzuki, Yasuhisa Takeda, Naoki Kondo, Yasuhiro Matsumura, Shigenori Oguri, Akira Okayama, Hiroshi Yanagawa, Zentaro Yamagata
Aim: To clarify the factors associated with reported dietary fat intake by Japanese male children. Methods: This study is based on the data of a nationally representative cross-sectional study in Japan. Three hundred and seventy-seven male children (age, 6 -…
Ruth-Maria Korth
Men who attended a Bavarian General Medicine Practice were confidentially invented here. Two male study groups were enrolled to characterize adiposity or hypertriglyceridemia showing that these men were at baseline risk for hypertension [1]. Adverse alcohol c…
Boris B. Pinkhasov, Vera G. Selyatitskaya, Ani R. Karapetyan, Elvira L. Astrakhantseva
The purpose of the study was to determine the prevalence of metabolic syndrome as a cluster of risk factors for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes mellitus and its individual components in groups of men and women with primary obesity h…
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