Women live longer than men and develop cardiovascular disease (CVD) at an older age.
The metabolic syndrome represents a major risk factor for the development of CVD, and …

Evidence has accumulated that specific retinoids impact on developmental and biochemical
processes influencing mammalian adiposity including adipogenesis, lipogenesis, adaptive …

Background: The interaction of the risk factors of abdominal obesity, disturbed glucose
homeostasis, dyslipidemia, and hypertension is believed to represent a distinct entity …

A prospective cohort of 74,332 men and women was used to investigate the association of
body mass index and height with suicide, anxiety, and depression. Participants in the Nord …

Estimated genetic associations with prognosis, or conditional on a phenotype (eg disease
incidence), may be affected by collider bias, whereby conditioning on the phenotype …

The purpose of this review was to examine the factors that predict the development of
excessive fatness in children and adolescents. M edline, W eb of Science and PubMed were …

Background: The prevalence of obesity among children in the United States represents a
pool of latent morbidity. Though the prevalence of obesity has increased in both boys and …

Childhood obesity is a major public health problem. Low‐grade inflammation, a hallmark
characterizing adult obesity, may be a pivotal mechanism linking obesity to its numerous …

The prevalence and severity of obesity in children and adolescent is dramatically increasing
worldwide with a corresponding increase in the prevalence of obesity-associated …

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common sleep disorder, effecting 17% of the total
population and 40–70% of the obese population (,). Multiple studies have identified OSA as …