KM McTigue, R Harris, B Hemphill, L Lux, S … - Annals of Internal Medicine, 2003 - Am Coll Physicians Background: Obesity poses a considerable and growing health burden. This review
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SC Jacobs, E Cho, C Foster, P Liao, ST … - The Journal of urology, 2004 - Elsevier Renal donors were 69% white race and 57% female. Age range was 18 to 74 years.
Neither age nor obesity alone were exclusionary criteria. Nephrectomy was left
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JR Sowers - The American journal of medicine, 2003 - Elsevier The prevalence of overweight and obesity continues to increase rapidly in the
United States, with more than half of all adults currently overweight or obese.
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- ►endojournals.org N Cossrow, B Falkner - Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2004 - Endocrine Soc The prevalence of obesity is increasing among all age and racial groups in the
United States. There is, however, a disproportionate rise in the prevalence of
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JR Sowers, ED Frohlich - Medical Clinics of North America, 2004 - Elsevier Insulin (INS) resistance use is an integral component of the cardiometabolic
syndrome, which often progresses to type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease
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- ►annals.org [PDF] RS Vasan, MJ Pencina, M Cobain, MS … - Annals of internal medicine, 2005 - Am Coll Physicians Participants: 4117 white participants (51.9% women) from the Framingham Heart
Study. Measurements: The short-term (4 years) and long-term (10 to 30 years)
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CC Thomson, S Clark, CA Camargo - Chest, 2003 - chestjournal.chestpubs.org Measurements and results: A standardized interview assessed demographic
characteristics, asthma history, and details of the current asthma exacerbation.
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M Kuppermann, RE Varner, RL Summitt Jr, LA … - JAMA, 2004 - Am Med Assoc You are seeing this message because your Web browser does not support basic Web
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- ►nutrition.org MA McCrory, VMM Suen, SB Roberts - Journal of Nutrition, 2002 - Am Soc Nutrition US adults are now gaining more weight and becoming obese at an earlier age than
in previous years. The specific causes of adult weight gain are unknown, but may
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I Jatoi, H Becher, CR Leake - Cancer, 2003 - interscience.wiley.com In the US, age-adjusted breast carcinoma mortality rates among white and
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