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  1. We sought to demonstrate that the relationship between urban or rural residence and overweight status among women in Sub-Saharan Africa is complex and confounded by wealth status.

    Authors: Nyovani Janet Madise and Gobopamang Letamo
    Citation: BMC Obesity 2017 4:5
  2. The efficacy of a non-prescription drug to support weight loss programs has yet to be compared. This clinical trial investigates the comparability of orlistat 60 milligram (mg) and polyglucosamine.

    Authors: Manfred Stoll, Norman Bitterlich and Umberto Cornelli
    Citation: BMC Obesity 2017 4:4
  3. Obesity is currently a global health challenge driven by a mix of behavioural, environmental and genetic factors. Up to date population-based disease burden estimates are needed to guide successful prevention ...

    Authors: Leopold Ndemnge Aminde, Jeannine A. Atem, Andre Pascal Kengne, Anastase Dzudie and J. Lennert Veerman
    Citation: BMC Obesity 2017 4:1
  4. To examine associations of Body mass Index (BMI) and mental distress in late midlife in a large Danish community sample and to investigate the effect of socio-demographic factors.

    Authors: Cathrine Lawaetz Wimmelmann, Rikke Lund, Ulla Christensen, Merete Osler and Erik Lykke Mortensen
    Citation: BMC Obesity 2016 3:54
  5. Overweight and obesity prevalence in children is now on the rise in low/middle-income countries, including Guatemala. Fast food consumption is a recognized contributing factor to this rise. Fast food restauran...

    Authors: Sofia Mazariegos, Violeta Chacón, Adam Cole and Joaquin Barnoya
    Citation: BMC Obesity 2016 3:52
  6. The King’s Obesity Staging Criteria (KOSC) comprises of a four-graded set of health related domains. We aimed to examine whether, according to KOSC, patients undergoing bariatric surgery differed from those op...

    Authors: Tone G. Valderhaug, Erlend T. Aasheim, Rune Sandbu, Gunn S. Jakobsen, Milada C. Småstuen, Jens K. Hertel and Jøran Hjelmesæth
    Citation: BMC Obesity 2016 3:51
  7. Reports on alterations in somatic neural functions due to non-diabetic obesity, a major risk factor for diabetes, are few and still a matter of debate. Nevertheless, to our knowledge, reports lack any comments...

    Authors: Ram Lochan Yadav, Deepak Sharma, Prakash Kumar Yadav, Dev Kumar Shah, Kopila Agrawal, Rita Khadka and Md. Nazrul Islam
    Citation: BMC Obesity 2016 3:50
  8. Adult obesity rates in the United States have reached epidemic proportions, yet vary considerably across states and counties. We sought to explore community-level factors that may be associated with reduced ad...

    Authors: Maureen E. Canavan, Emily Cherlin, Stephanie Boegeman, Elizabeth H. Bradley and Kristina M. Talbert-Slagle
    Citation: BMC Obesity 2016 3:49
  9. Short sleep has been linked to obesity. However, sleep is a multidimensional behavior that cannot be characterized solely by sleep duration. There is limited study that comprehensively examined different sleep...

    Authors: Qian Xiao, Fangyi Gu, Neil Caporaso and Charles E. Matthews
    Citation: BMC Obesity 2016 3:48
  10. As a result of both genetic and environmental factors, the body composition and topography of African populations are presumed to be different from western populations. Accordingly, globally accepted anthropom...

    Authors: Tilahun Nigatu Haregu, Samuel Oti, Thaddaeus Egondi and Catherine Kyobutungi
    Citation: BMC Obesity 2016 3:46
  11. Weight change in first year university students, often referred to as ‘Freshman 15’, has been shown to be a common problem in North America. Studies have reported weight gain to be between 1 kg and 4 kg over t...

    Authors: Claudia Vadeboncoeur, Charlie Foster and Nick Townsend
    Citation: BMC Obesity 2016 3:45

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  12. Community Health Centers (CHCs) are important settings for obesity prevention and control. However, few studies have explored the barriers that CHC clinicians perceive their patients face in maintaining a heal...

    Authors: Rebecca C. Woodruff, Gillian L. Schauer, Ann R. Addison, Ajay Gehlot and Michelle C. Kegler
    Citation: BMC Obesity 2016 3:43
  13. Obesity is a significant public health problem and innovative treatments are needed. The purpose of this pilot study was to assess the preliminary efficacy and safety of a combined treatment of low-level laser...

    Authors: Ivana T. Croghan, Jon O. Ebbert, Darrell R. Schroeder, Ryan T. Hurt, Victoria Hagstrom and Matthew M. Clark
    Citation: BMC Obesity 2016 3:42
  14. Abdominal obesity increases all-cause mortality and is a risk factor for a number of diseases. There are few population-based studies of the longitudinal changes of abdominal obesity.

    Authors: Bjarne K. Jacobsen and Nils Abel Aars
    Citation: BMC Obesity 2016 3:41
  15. The metabolic syndrome is a worldwide health issue, with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (liver steatosis) being one of its features, particularly closely related to insulin resistance. This study aims to in...

    Authors: Victoria T. Isaksen, Maria A. Larsen, Rasmus Goll, Jon R. Florholmen and Eyvind J. Paulssen
    Citation: BMC Obesity 2016 3:39
  16. Errors in reported height and weight raise concerns about body mass index (BMI) and obesity estimates obtained from self or proxy reports. Researchers have corrected BMI using linear statistical models, primar...

    Authors: Madhumita (Bonnie) Ghosh-Dastidar, Ann C Haas, Nancy Nicosia and Ashlesha Datar
    Citation: BMC Obesity 2016 3:37
  17. Obesity disproportionately affects children from low-income families and those from racial and ethnic minorities. The relationship between snacking and weight status remains unclear, although snacking is known...

    Authors: Andrea Charvet, Kathryn Brogan Hartlieb, Yulyu Yeh and K.-L. Catherine Jen
    Citation: BMC Obesity 2016 3:36
  18. Obesity-related comorbidities are thought to result from the reprogramming of the epigenome in numerous tissues and cell types, and in particular, mature adipocytes within visceral and subcutaneous adipose tis...

    Authors: Suresh Ambati, Ping Yu, Elizabeth C. McKinney, Muthugapatti K. Kandasamy, Diane Hartzell, Clifton A. Baile and Richard B. Meagher
    Citation: BMC Obesity 2016 3:35
  19. This study contributes to the literature by using accelerometers to describe sedentary behavior (SB) patterns in US children. The purpose of this study was to examine SB patterns in fifth-graders by specifical...

    Authors: Jimikaye Beck, Christine A. Chard, Carolin Hilzendegen, James Hill and Nanette Stroebele-Benschop
    Citation: BMC Obesity 2016 3:34
  20. Obesity has long been highlighted for its association with increased incidence of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Nonetheless, the best adiposity indices to evaluate the CVD risk factors remain contentious and f...

    Authors: Xinyan Bi, Siew Ling Tey, Claudia Leong, Rina Quek, Yi Ting Loo and Christiani Jeyakumar Henry
    Citation: BMC Obesity 2016 3:33
  21. Misperception of body weight by individuals is a known occurrence. However, it is a potential target for implementing obesity reduction interventions in patients with cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. The...

    Authors: Ranil Jayawardena, Pavani Punchihewa, Ishara Ranathunga, Niroshan Lokunarangoda, Anidu Keerthi Pathirana and Wijeyasingam Samuel Santharaj
    Citation: BMC Obesity 2016 3:32
  22. Obesity prevalence is higher among African American adolescent (AAA) girls than among non-black girls. Lower levels of physical activity (PA) likely contribute to this disparity; this may be impacted by hairst...

    Authors: Susan J. Woolford, Carole J. Woolford-Hunt, Areej Sami, Natalie Blake and David R. Williams
    Citation: BMC Obesity 2016 3:31
  23. Weight loss improves cardiovascular risk factors and “quality of life”. Most therapeutic approaches fail to induce a sustained weight loss and most individuals undergo weight regain. In this paper the comprehe...

    Authors: Anne-Madeleine Bau, Andrea Ernert, Heiko Krude and Susanna Wiegand
    Citation: BMC Obesity 2016 3:29
  24. Maternal obesity is accompanied by maternal and fetal complications during and after pregnancy. The risks seem to increase with degree of obesity. Leptin has been suggested to play a role in the development of...

    Authors: Sara Carlhäll, Marie Bladh, Jan Brynhildsen, Ing-Marie Claesson, Ann Josefsson, Gunilla Sydsjö, Annika Thorsell and Marie Blomberg
    Citation: BMC Obesity 2016 3:28
  25. Ankle-brachial index (ABI) and indices of obesity are both use to indicate cardiovascular risk. However, association between body composition indices and ABI, a measure of peripheral arterial disease, is incon...

    Authors: Kwame Yeboah, Peter Puplampu, Ernest Yorke, Daniel A. Antwi, Ben Gyan and Albert G. B. Amoah
    Citation: BMC Obesity 2016 3:27
  26. Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma 2 (PPAR-γ2) is a transcription factor with a key role in adipocyte differentiation, lipid storage and glucose homeostasis. The Ala allele of the common Pro12Ala po...

    Authors: Edith Pascale M. Mato, Priscille Eunice Pokam-Fosso, Barbara Atogho-Tiedeu, Jean Jacques N. Noubiap, Marie-Solange Evehe, Rosine Djokam-Dadjeu, Olivier Sontsa Donfack, Elvis Ndonwi Ngwa, Magellan Guewo-Fokeng, Wilfred F. Mbacham, Eugene Sobngwi and Jean Claude Mbanya
    Citation: BMC Obesity 2016 3:26
  27. The context of the close neighbourhood environment in which children live has gained increasing attention in epidemiological research. This study aimed to investigate if contextual neighbourhood socioeconomic ...

    Authors: Steffen Andreas Schüle, Rüdiger von Kries, Hermann Fromme and Gabriele Bolte
    Citation: BMC Obesity 2016 3:25
  28. Obesity is a risk factor for inadequate receipt of recommended preventive care services. The objective of this study was to assess the relationship between increasing body mass index and receipt of influenza a...

    Authors: John A. Harris, Michelle H. Moniz, Brad Iott, Robyn Power and Jennifer J. Griggs
    Citation: BMC Obesity 2016 3:24
  29. Obesity is a risk factor for breast cancer in postmenopausal women and is associated with decreased survival and less favorable clinical characteristics such as greater tumor burden, higher grade, and poor pro...

    Authors: Allyson L. Toro, Nicholas S. Costantino, Craig D. Shriver, Darrell L. Ellsworth and Rachel E. Ellsworth
    Citation: BMC Obesity 2016 3:22
  30. Type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes are an increasing pandemic globally and often remain undiagnosed long after onset in low-income settings. The objective of this study is to assess the determinants and prevalen...

    Authors: Dewan S. Alam, Shamim H. Talukder, Muhammad Ashique Haider Chowdhury, Ali Tanweer Siddiquee, Shyfuddin Ahmed, Sonia Pervin, Sushmita Khan, Khaled Hasan, Tracey L. P. Koehlmoos and Louis W. Niessen
    Citation: BMC Obesity 2016 3:19
  31. Worldwide obesity has nearly doubled since 1980 and is a leading risk for global deaths, profoundly affecting morbidity, mortality, health-care costs, and professional and personal quality of life. Treatment o...

    Authors: Nicole H. P. Cnubben, Shanti L. Tel, Marleen A. Hemmes, Astrid Langenkamp-Brand, Dimitri Grossouw, Harm T. Jansen and Bert T. H. J. de Bie
    Citation: BMC Obesity 2016 3:18
  32. Weight management education is one of the key strategies to assist patients to manage their weight. Educational resources provide an important adjunct in the chain of communication between practitioners and pa...

    Authors: Nouhad El-Haddad, Catherine Spooner, Nighat Faruqi, Elizabeth Denney-Wilson and Mark Harris
    Citation: BMC Obesity 2016 3:16
  33. The development of effective strategies for the management of overweight in adolescence is a well recognized need. The current study investigates the effectiveness of an e-therapeutic platform (Next.Step) whic...

    Authors: Helena Fonseca, Ana Prioste, Pedro Sousa, Pedro Gaspar and Maria do Céu Machado
    Citation: BMC Obesity 2016 3:15
  34. The prevalence of overweight and obesity is increasing in Bangladesh. It is higher among Bangladeshi women than among men. This study was conducted to assess a host of demographic and socioeconomic correlates ...

    Authors: Haribondhu Sarma, Nazmus Saquib, Md Mehedi Hasan, Juliann Saquib, Ahmed Shafiqur Rahman, Jahidur Rahman Khan, Md Jasim Uddin, Mark R. Cullen and Tahmeed Ahmed
    Citation: BMC Obesity 2016 3:13
  35. Overweight, obesity, and related chronic diseases are becoming serious public health concerns in rural areas of India. Compounded with the existing issue of underweight, such concerns expose the double burden ...

    Authors: Matthew Little, Sally Humphries, Kirit Patel and Cate Dewey
    Citation: BMC Obesity 2016 3:12