Background: Dietary fibre consists of non-digestible forms of carbohydrate, usually as
polysaccharides that originate from plant-based foods. Over recent decades, our diet within …

The disease course of COVID‐19 varies from asymptomatic infection to critical condition
leading to mortality. Identification of prognostic factors is important for prevention and early …

Importance Overweight and obesity have been associated with adverse health effects.
Objective To systematically review evidence on benefits and harms of behavioral and …

Obesity is a worldwide pandemic contributing to the hypertensive state and to the
cardiovascular morbidity leading to an increase in hospitalizations, events and cost to the …

The epidemic of overweight and obesity presents a major challenge to chronic disease
prevention and health across the life course around the world. Fueled by economic growth …

Abstract Purpose of Review The purpose of this review is to evaluate and emphasize
important findings in the recent literature regarding the socioeconomics of obesity. It is …

Obesity is a complex, multifactorial disease that is strongly associated with multiple
comorbidities. 1–6 These comorbidities include certain types of cancer, cardiovascular …

Background: Cardiovascular disease may be the main reason for stagnant growth in life
expectancy in the United States since 2010. The American Heart Association recently …

Abstract Purpose of Review To explore the sequence and interaction of infancy and early
childhood risk factors, particularly relating to disturbances in the social environment, and …

Summary Each year, the American Heart Association (AHA), in conjunction with the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, and other government …