Guidelines for the management of obesity have been published and projects to combat
obesity are being run. However, more effort needs to be invested. Studies on intervention …

Poor dietary quality has surpassed all other mortality risk factors, accounting for 11 million
deaths and half of CVD deaths globally. Implementation of current nutrition …

States, we acknowledge that specific groups make up a large or growing segment of the
population and also suffer disproportionately from obesity and CVD. Groups that are the …

Within the last four decades Asia has witnessed major transformation in its population
demographics, which gave rise to changes in food availability, food habits and lifestyle. A …

Background: Studies have found associations between increasing BMIs and the
development of various chronic health conditions. The BMI cut points, or thresholds beyond …

Aims: This study assessed change in body mass index (BMI) and its impact on the incidence
of hypertension in 18-to 65-year-old Chinese adults. Methods: Two waves of data were …

Background: Overweight or obesity is a primary health concern that leads to a significant
burden of noncommunicable disease and threatens national productivity and economic …

Background Overweight and obesity increase the risk of elevated blood pressure; most of
the studies that serve as a background for the debates on the optimal obesity index cut-off …

This comparative study examines the relationship between excess weight and hourly wages
in the unprecedented context of middle‐income countries. We compare three countries that …

Introduction. The purpose of this study was to analyze the influence of metabolic phenotypes
during the construction of ROC curves for waist circumference (WC) cutpoint selection …