[HTML][HTML] Metabolic syndrome: risk factors, diagnosis, pathogenesis, and management with natural approaches

SM Mohamed, MA Shalaby, RA El-Shiekh… - Food Chemistry …, 2023 - Elsevier
Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a bunch of metabolic defects comprising hypertension, insulin
resistance, visceral obesity, fatty liver, and atherogenic cardiovascular diseases. Lifestyle …

Racial disparities in obesity treatment

AS Byrd, AT Toth, FC Stanford - Current obesity reports, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Obesity rates in the USA have reached pandemic levels with
one third of the population with obesity in 2015–2016 (39.8% of adults and 18.5% of youth) …

Phenome-wide heritability analysis of the UK Biobank

T Ge, CY Chen, BM Neale, MR Sabuncu… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Heritability estimation provides important information about the relative contribution of
genetic and environmental factors to phenotypic variation, and provides an upper bound for …

Assessing the heritability of complex traits in humans: methodological challenges and opportunities

AJ Mayhew, D Meyre - Current genomics, 2017 - ingentaconnect.com
The goal of this review article is to provide a conceptual based summary of how heritability
estimates for complex traits such as obesity are determined and to explore the future …

Behavioral susceptibility to obesity: Gene–environment interplay in the development of weight

C Llewellyn, J Wardle - Physiology & behavior, 2015 - Elsevier
There is considerable evidence for both environmental and genetic causes of obesity.
Increased availability of cheap, palatable food plays a role, but despite the ubiquity of the …

The obesity epidemic–Nature via nurture: A narrative review of high-income countries

SE Jackson, CH Llewellyn, L Smith - SAGE open medicine, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Over the last three decades, the prevalence of obesity has increased rapidly in populations
around the world. Despite a wealth of research, the relative contributions of the different …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-level block permutation

AM Winkler, MA Webster, D Vidaurre, TE Nichols… - Neuroimage, 2015 - Elsevier
Under weak and reasonable assumptions, mainly that data are exchangeable under the null
hypothesis, permutation tests can provide exact control of false positives and allow the use …

School year versus summer differences in child weight gain: a narrative review

T Baranowski, T O'Connor, C Johnston… - Childhood …, 2014 - liebertpub.com
The causes of the current high prevalence of overweight and obesity among children are not
clearly known. Schools have been implicated in the causal chain to high child obesity …

[HTML][HTML] Differences in genetic and environmental variation in adult BMI by sex, age, time period, and region: an individual-based pooled analysis of 40 twin cohorts

K Silventoinen, A Jelenkovic, R Sund… - The American journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Genes and the environment contribute to variation in adult body mass index
[BMI (in kg/m 2)], but factors modifying these variance components are poorly understood …

[HTML][HTML] Severe obesity in children and adolescents: metabolic effects, assessment, and treatment

YL Chung, YJ Rhie - Journal of obesity & metabolic syndrome, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Childhood obesity has been increasing steadily in recent decades, and severe childhood
obesity has emerged as a major public health problem both nationally and internationally. A …