Conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has "multiplied" the risk of the spread of diseases, including ...

The findings from the PROSPERO study reveal that multiple hospitalizations, long-term disease duration, prior surgeries, and factors like corticosteroid use and total parenteral nutrition ...

Makumbi F, Guyer B. The second question asked is: “How much does the baby weigh?” So, what is “normal” birth weight? In: Bledsoe C, ed. Discovering normality in health and the reproductive body.

Major public health organizations, including the World Health Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, define adult obesity as a BMI of 30 or greater and overweight as a BMI ...

IN the introduction to his comprehensive report on the cholera epidemic of 1848–49, William Farr, 1 that greatest of statistical epidemiologists, wrote, "If a foreign army had landed on the ...

Obesity is linked to serious health conditions like cardiovascular disease, diabetes ... with West Virginia recording the highest prevalence at more than 41 percent of adults and Washington ...

Traditionally Body Mass Index (BMI) was used to define obesity, but the new approach, published in a study in Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology focuses on abdominal obesity, comorbid diseases. This ...

Traditionally Body Mass Index (BMI) was used to define obesity, but the new approach, published in a study in the Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology focuses on abdominal obesity, comorbid diseases.

Obesity is linked to many common diseases, such as type 2 diabetes ... The goal of the Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission on the Definition and Diagnosis of Clinical Obesity was to ...

The commission said it did not know the prevalence ... weight and how do you define a sick weight?” “We were asked many times, Do you think obesity is a chronic disease? We were unhappy ...

On the other hand, a blanket definition of obesity as a disease can result in overdiagnosis and unwarranted use of medications and surgical procedures, with potential harm to the individual and ...