Obesity has become a major public health issue in China. Overweight and obesity have
increased rapidly in the past four decades, and the latest national prevalence estimates for …

The global obesity epidemic is well established, with increases in obesity prevalence for
most countries since the 1980s. Obesity contributes directly to incident cardiovascular risk …

Excess body weight is a global health problem due to sedentary lifestyle and unhealthy diet,
affecting 2 billion population worldwide. Obesity is a major risk factor for metabolic diseases …

The COVID-19 pandemic is an extraordinary global emergency that has led to the
implementation of unprecedented measures in order to stem the spread of the infection …

UK Biobank is a population-based cohort of half a million participants aged 40–69 years
recruited between 2006 and 2010. In 2014, UK Biobank started the world's largest multi …

Background Overweight and obesity are increasing worldwide. To help assess their
relevance to mortality in different populations we conducted individual-participant data meta …

Accumulating knowledge on the biology and function of the adipose tissue has led to a
major shift in our understanding of its role in health and disease. The adipose tissue is now …

This paper gives a brief overview of common non-invasive techniques for body composition
analysis and a more in-depth review of a body composition assessment method based on …

Insulin resistance is a metabolic disorder affecting multiple tissues and is a precursor event
to type 2 diabetes (T2D). As T2D affects over 425 million people globally, there is an …

Obesity is characterized by the accumulation of an excessive amount of fat mass (FM) in the
adipose tissue, subcutaneous, or inside certain organs. The risk does not lie so much in the …