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Determinants, Consequences and Management of Obesity

Updated November 30, 2020 Calls for Papers Collections

In this collection our goal is to bring together researchers and clinicians devoted to caring for people with obesity and its multiple comorbidities. Our panel of Guest Editors compiled publications of broad interest to health practitioners and present research that helps to advance clinical practice or health policy in the field of obesity studies.

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University of Cambridge

Guest Editor, PLOS Medicine Nick Wareham
November 17, 2020
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The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Guest Editor, PLOS Medicine Ronald CW MA
November 17, 2020
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Harvard Medical School

Guest Editor, PLOS Medicine Sanjay Basu
November 17, 2020
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Guest Editor, PLOS Medicine Karine Clément
November 17, 2020

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PLOS Medicine The role of polygenic susceptibility to obesity among carriers of pathogenic mutations in MC4R in the UK Biobank population
July 21, 2020 Nathalie Chami, Michael Preuss, Ryan W. Walker, Arden Moscati, Ruth J. F. Loos
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PLOS Medicine Association of smoking with abdominal adipose deposition and muscle composition in Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) participants at mid-life: A population-based cohort study
July 21, 2020 James G. Terry, Katherine G. Hartley, Lyn M. Steffen, Sangeeta Nair, Amy C. Alman, Melissa F. Wellons, David R. Jacobs Jr., Hilary A. Tindle, John Jeffrey Carr
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PLOS Medicine Polygenic risk score for obesity and the quality, quantity, and timing of workplace food purchases: A secondary analysis from the ChooseWell 365 randomized trial
July 21, 2020 Hassan S. Dashti, Marie-France Hivert, Douglas E. Levy, Jessica L. McCurley, Richa Saxena, Anne N. Thorndike
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PLOS Medicine Association of bariatric surgery with all-cause mortality and incidence of obesity-related disease at a population level: A systematic review and meta-analysis
July 28, 2020 Tom Wiggins, Nadia Guidozzi, Richard Welbourn, Ahmed R. Ahmed, Sheraz R. Markar
PLOS Medicine The global burden of disease attributable to high body mass index in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: An analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study
July 28, 2020 Haijiang Dai, Tariq A. Alsalhe, Nasr Chalghaf, Matteo Riccò, Nicola Luigi Bragazzi, Jianhong Wu
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PLOS Medicine Obesity, clinical, and genetic predictors for glycemic progression in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes: A cohort study using the Hong Kong Diabetes Register and Hong Kong Diabetes Biobank
July 28, 2020 Guozhi Jiang, Andrea O. Luk, Claudia H. T. Tam, Eric S. Lau, Risa Ozaki, Elaine Y. K. Chow, Alice P. S. Kong, Cadmon K. P. Lim, Ka Fai Lee, Shing Chung Siu, Grace Hui, Chiu Chi Tsang, Kam Piu Lau, Jenny Y. Y. Leung, Man-wo Tsang, Grace Kam, Ip Tim Lau, June K. Li, Vincent T. Yeung, Emmy Lau, Stanley Lo, Samuel K. S. Fung, Yuk Lun Cheng, Chun Chung Chow, Ewan R. Pearson, Wing Yee So, Juliana C. N. Chan, Ronald C. W. Ma, Hong Kong Diabetes Register TRS Study Group , Hong Kong Diabetes Biobank Study Group
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PLOS Medicine Projected impact of a reduction in sugar-sweetened beverage consumption on diabetes and cardiovascular disease in Argentina: A modeling study
July 28, 2020 M. Victoria Salgado, Joanne Penko, Alicia Fernandez, Jonatan Konfino, Pamela G. Coxson, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Raul Mejia

Background: Sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption is associated with obesity, diabetes, and hypertension. Argentina is one of the…
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PLOS Medicine Changes in the amount of nutrient of packaged foods and beverages after the initial implementation of the Chilean Law of Food Labelling and Advertising: A nonexperimental prospective study
July 28, 2020 Marcela Reyes, Lindsey Smith Taillie, Barry Popkin, Rebecca Kanter, Stefanie Vandevijvere, Camila Corvalán
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Diane Alkier

PLOS Medicine Predicting obesity reduction after implementing warning labels in Mexico: A modeling study
July 28, 2020 Ana Basto-Abreu, Rossana Torres-Alvarez, Francisco Reyes-Sánchez, Romina González-Morales, Francisco Canto-Osorio, M. Arantxa Colchero, Simón Barquera, Juan A. Rivera, Tonatiuh Barrientos-Gutierrez
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PLOS Medicine Addressing socioeconomic inequalities in obesity: Democratising access to resources for achieving and maintaining a healthy weight
July 28, 2020 Jean Adams
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PLOS Medicine Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the GoActive intervention to increase physical activity among UK adolescents: A cluster randomised controlled trial
July 23, 2020 Kirsten Corder, Stephen J. Sharp, Stephanie T. Jong, Campbell Foubister, Helen Elizabeth Brown, Emma K. Wells, Sofie M. Armitage, Caroline H. D. Croxson, Anna Vignoles, Paul O. Wilkinson, Edward C. F. Wilson, Esther M. F. van Sluijs
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PLOS Medicine Development and validation of a model for predicting incident type 2 diabetes using quantitative clinical data and a Bayesian logistic model: A nationwide cohort and modeling study
August 7, 2020 Lua Wilkinson, Nengjun Yi, Tapan Mehta, Suzanne Judd, W. Timothy Garvey
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PLOS Medicine From genetics to bariatric surgery and soda taxes: Using all the tools to curb the rising tide of obesity
July 31, 2020 Adya Misra, Sanjay Basu
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PLOS Medicine The reimagination of school-based physical activity research in the COVID-19 era
August 28, 2020 Deirdre M. Harrington, Michelle O’Reilly
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PLOS Medicine Patterns of beverage purchases amongst British households: A latent class analysis
September 8, 2020 Nicolas Berger, Steven Cummins, Alexander Allen, Richard D. Smith, Laura Cornelsen
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PLOS Medicine The potential health impact of restricting less-healthy food and beverage advertising on UK television between 05.30 and 21.00 hours: A modelling study
October 13, 2020 Oliver T. Mytton, Emma Boyland, Jean Adams, Brendan Collins, Martin O’Connell, Simon J. Russell, Kate Smith, Rebekah Stroud, Russell M. Viner, Linda J. Cobiac
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PLOS Medicine Maternal dysglycaemia, changes in the infant’s epigenome modified with a diet and physical activity intervention in pregnancy: Secondary analysis of a randomised control trial
November 5, 2020 Elie Antoun, Negusse T. Kitaba, Philip Titcombe, Kathryn V. Dalrymple, Emma S. Garratt, Sheila J. Barton, Robert Murray, Paul T. Seed, Joanna D. Holbrook, Michael S. Kobor, David TS Lin, Julia L. MacIsaac, Graham C. Burdge, Sara L. White, Lucilla Poston, Keith M. Godfrey, Karen A. Lillycrop, UPBEAT Consortium

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University of Washington

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November 18, 2019 Guest Editor, PLOS ONE
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University of Hawai'i

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November 18, 2019 Guest Editor, PLOS ONE

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PLOS ONE Cardiac autonomic dysfunction is associated with hypothalamic damage in patients with childhood-onset craniopharyngioma
February 16, 2021 Hae Woon Jung, Hwa Young Kim, Ji Young Kim, Jung-Eun Cheon, In-One Kim, Seung-Ki Kim, Choong Ho Shin, Sei Won Yang, Young Ah Lee

Background: Autonomic nervous system dysfunction is implicated in the development of hypothalamic obesity. We investigated the relationship…
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PLOS ONE Dietary quality score is positively associated with serum adiponectin level in Indonesian preschool-age children living in the urban area of Jakarta
February 4, 2021 Anastasia Hayuningtyas, Yayang Aditia Dewi, Lestari Octavia, Aman Pulungan, Rina Agustina

An unhealthy diet during childhood directly impacts the risk of developing noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) later on in life. However,…
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PLOS ONE Safety of antidepressants in a primary care cohort of adults with obesity and depression
January 29, 2021 Richard Morriss, Freya Tyrer, Francesco Zaccardi, Kamlesh Khunti

Background: Obesity, depressive disorders and antidepressant drugs are associated with increased mortality, cardiovascular disease,…
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PLOS ONE Electronic based reported anthropometry—A useful tool for interim monitoring of obesity prevalence in developing states
December 7, 2020 Pamela S. Gaskin, Peter Chami, Tamara Nancoo, Patricia Warner, Patrick Barrett, Yvette Mayers

Background: Wide participation in electronic surveys and reliable reporting of anthropometry can serve to reduce costs associated with…
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PLOS ONE Weighing the waitlist: Weight changes and access to kidney transplantation among obese candidates
November 30, 2020 Elaine Ku, Adrian M. Whelan, Charles E. McCulloch, Brian Lee, Claus U. Niemann, Garrett R. Roll, Barbara A. Grimes, Kirsten L. Johansen

High body mass index is a known barrier to access to kidney transplantation in patients with end-stage kidney disease. The extent to which…
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10.1371/journal.pone.0242680, CC BY 4.0

PLOS ONE Development and content validity of an instrument for assessing the motivation for weight loss in adolescents with overweight and obesity
November 25, 2020 David Franciole Oliveira Silva, Angélica Luiza de Sales Souza, Jéssica Bastos Pimentel, Thatyane Oliveira Souza, Eduarda Pontes dos Santos Araújo, Karine Cavalcanti Maurício Sena-Evangelista, Ricardo Fernando Arrais, Severina Carla Vieira Cunha Lima

Objective: To develop and validate the content of an instrument for assessing the motivation for weight loss in adolescents with overweight…
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PLOS ONE Prevalence of normal weight obesity and its associated cardio-metabolic risk factors – Results from the baseline data of the Kerala Diabetes Prevention Program (KDPP)
August 25, 2020 Nitin Kapoor, Mojtaba Lotfaliany, Thirunavukkarasu Sathish, Kavumpurathu R. Thankappan, Nihal Thomas, John Furler, Brian Oldenburg, Robyn J. Tapp
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Michał Parzuchowski

PLOS ONE Identifying underlying medical causes of pediatric obesity: Results of a systematic diagnostic approach in a pediatric obesity center
May 8, 2020 Lotte Kleinendorst, Ozair Abawi, Bibian van der Voorn, Mieke H. T. M. Jongejan, Annelies E. Brandsma, Jenny A. Visser, Elisabeth F. C. van Rossum, Bert van der Zwaag, Mariëlle Alders, Elles M. J. Boon, Mieke M. van Haelst, Erica L. T. van den Akker
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PLOS ONE Obesity induces limited changes to systemic and local immune profiles in treatment-naive human clear cell renal cell carcinoma
May 29, 2020 Justin T. Gibson, Katlyn E. Norris, Gal Wald, Claire M. Buchta Rosean, Lewis J. Thomas, Shannon K. Boi, Laura A. Bertrand, Megan Bing, Jennifer B. Gordetsky, Jessy Deshane, Peng Li, James A. Brown, Kenneth G. Nepple, Lyse A. Norian
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Dan Gold

PLOS ONE Participant experiences of a low-energy total diet replacement programme: A descriptive qualitative study
September 8, 2020 Nerys M. Astbury, Charlotte Albury, Rebecca Nourse, Susan A. Jebb
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Anupam Mahapatra

PLOS ONE Physical activity and risk of cardiovascular disease by weight status among U.S adults
May 8, 2020 Xiaochen Zhang, Rebecca E. Cash, Julie K. Bower, Brian C. Focht, Electra D. Paskett
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Gabriella Clare Marino

PLOS ONE Abdominal obesity and association with sociodemographic, behavioral and clinical data in climacteric women assisted in primary care
August 13, 2020 Wiviane da Costa Pimenta, Josiane Santos Brant Rocha, Antônio Prates Caldeira, Daniela Araújo Veloso Popoff, Viviane Maia Santos, Joyce Elen Murça de Souza, Maria Suzana Marques, Fernanda Piana Santos Lima de Oliveira, Daniela Marcia Rodrigues Caldeira, Geraldo Edson Souza Guerra Júnior, Ronilson Ferreira Freitas, Yaroslav Wladmir Lopes Popoff, Gustavo Veloso Rabelo, Mirna Rossi Barbosa-Medeiros, Luiza Augusta Rosa Rossi-Barbosa
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Drew Coffman

PLOS ONE KD-64—A new selective A_2A adenosine receptor antagonist has anti-inflammatory activity but contrary to the non-selective antagonist—Caffeine does not reduce diet-induced obesity in mice
June 18, 2020 Magdalena Kotańska, Anna Dziubina, Małgorzata Szafarz, Kamil Mika, Karolina Reguła, Marek Bednarski, Małgorzata Zygmunt, Anna Drabczyńska, Jacek Sapa, Katarzyna Kieć-Kononowicz
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PLOS ONE Examination of different definitions of snacking frequency and associations with weight status among U.S. adults
June 17, 2020 Alexandra E. Cowan, Kelly A. Higgins, Jennifer O. Fisher, Gina L. Tripicchio, Richard D. Mattes, Peishan Zou, Regan L. Bailey
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PLOS ONE Main and interacting effects of physical activity and sedentary time on older adults’ BMI: The moderating roles of socio-demographic and environmental attributes
July 9, 2020 Delfien Van Dyck, Anthony Barnett, Jelle Van Cauwenberg, Casper J. P. Zhang, Cindy H. P. Sit, Ester Cerin
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PLOS ONE Association of a genetic risk score with BMI along the life-cycle: Evidence from several US cohorts
September 17, 2020 Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anastasia Terskaya, Angie Upegui
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PLOS ONE Results of the 3 Pillars Study (3PS), a relationship-based programme targeting parent-child interactions, healthy lifestyle behaviours, and the home environment in parents of preschool-aged children: A pilot randomised controlled trial
September 17, 2020 Samantha Marsh, Rachael Taylor, Barbara Galland, Sarah Gerritsen, Varsha Parag, Ralph Maddison
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PLOS ONE An exercise-based educational and motivational intervention after surgery can improve behaviors, physical fitness and quality of life in bariatric patients
October 29, 2020 Francesca Gallé, Gianpaolo Marte, Assunta Cirella, Mirella Di Dio, Alessandra Miele, Roberta Ricchiuti, Fabrizio Liguori, Pietro Maida, Giorgio Liguori
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PLOS ONE Less physical activity and more varied and disrupted sleep is associated with a less favorable metabolic profile in adolescents
May 15, 2020 Vaka Rognvaldsdottir, Robert J. Brychta, Soffia M. Hrafnkelsdottir, Kong Y. Chen, Sigurbjorn A. Arngrimsson, Erlingur Johannsson, Sigridur L. Guðmundsdottir
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pone.0236936

PLOS ONE Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery changes fungal and bacterial microbiota in morbidly obese patients—A pilot study
July 31, 2020 Robert E. Steinert, Ateequr Rehman, Everton Job Souto Lima, Valeria Agamennone, Frank H. J. Schuren, Daniel Gero, Phillip Schreiner, René Vonlanthen, Aiman Ismaeil, Stefanos Tzafos, Hanna Hosa, Diana Vetter, Benjamin Misselwitz, Marco Bueter
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PLOS ONE The consequences of exercise-induced weight loss on food reinforcement. A randomized controlled trial
June 18, 2020 Kyle D. Flack, Harry M. Hays, Jack Moreland
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PLOS ONE Simultaneous evaluation of metabolomic and inflammatory biomarkers in children with different body mass index (BMI) and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR)
August 24, 2020 Erika Chavira-Suárez, Cecilia Rosel-Pech, Ernestina Polo-Oteyza, Mónica Ancira-Moreno, Isabel Ibarra-González, Marcela Vela-Amieva, Noemi Meraz-Cruz, Carlos Aguilar-Salinas, Felipe Vadillo-Ortega
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PLOS ONE Self-efficacy and psychosocial considerations of obesity risk reduction behaviors in young adult white Americans
June 24, 2020 Doreen Liou, Lauren Kulik
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PLOS ONE Pre-operative aerobic exercise on metabolic health and surgical outcomes in patients receiving bariatric surgery: A pilot trial
October 2, 2020 Nicole M. Gilbertson, Julian M. Gaitán, Victoria Osinski, Elizabeth A. Rexrode, James C. Garmey, J. Hunter Mehaffey, Taryn E. Hassinger, Sibylle Kranz, Coleen A. McNamara, Arthur Weltman, Peter T. Hallowell, Steven K. Malin
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PLOS ONE Evaluating social network-based weight loss interventions in Chinese population: An agent-based simulation
August 3, 2020 Liuyan Shi, Liang Zhang, Yun Lu
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PLOS ONE The cause and effect problem: Is there mutual obesity among Arab Israeli couples?
October 16, 2020 Yuval Arbel, Chaim Fialkoff, Amichai Kerner
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Novel Robinson

PLOS ONE The association between national income and adult obesity prevalence: Empirical insights into temporal patterns and moderators of the association using 40 years of data across 147 countries
May 13, 2020 Debabrata Talukdar, Satheesh Seenivasan, Adrian J. Cameron, Gary Sacks
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PLOS ONE Sex modifies the association between the CLOCK variant rs1801260 and BMI in school-age children
August 12, 2020 Ying Meng, Barbara Lohse, Leslie Cunningham-Sabo
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PLOS ONE Weight-gain induced changes in renal perfusion assessed by contrast-enhanced ultrasound precede increases in urinary protein excretion suggestive of glomerular and tubular injury and normalize after weight-loss in dogs
April 21, 2020 Daisy J. X. Liu, Emmelie Stock, Bart J. G. Broeckx, Sylvie Daminet, Evelyne Meyer, Joris R. Delanghe, Siska Croubels, Mathias Devreese, Patrick Nguyen, Evelien Bogaerts, Myriam Hesta, Katrien Vanderperren
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PLOS ONE Ultra-processed food consumption and indicators of obesity in the United Kingdom population (2008-2016)
May 1, 2020 Fernanda Rauber, Eurídice Martínez Steele, Maria Laura da Costa Louzada, Christopher Millett, Carlos Augusto Monteiro, Renata Bertazzi Levy
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PLOS ONE Comparison of self-report versus accelerometer – measured physical activity and sedentary behaviors and their association with body composition in Latin American countries
April 28, 2020 Gerson Luis de Moraes Ferrari, Irina Kovalskys, Mauro Fisberg, Georgina Gómez, Attilio Rigotti, Lilia Yadira Cortés Sanabria, Martha Cecilia Yépez García, Rossina Gabriella Pareja Torres, Marianella Herrera-Cuenca, Ioná Zalcman Zimberg, Viviana Guajardo, Michael Pratt, Carlos André Miranda Pires, Rachel C. Colley, Dirceu Solé, on behalf of the ELANS Study Group
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PLOS ONE Randomized nutrient bar supplementation improves exercise-associated changes in plasma metabolome in adolescents and adult family members at cardiometabolic risk
October 20, 2020 Michele Mietus-Snyder, Nisha Narayanan, Ronald M. Krauss, Kirsten Laine-Graves, Joyce C. McCann, Mark K. Shigenaga, Tara H. McHugh, Bruce N. Ames, Jung H. Suh
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PLOS ONE Facing obesity in pain rehabilitation clinics: Profiles of physical activity in patients with chronic pain and obesity—A study from the Swedish Quality Registry for Pain Rehabilitation (SQRP)
September 28, 2020 Huan-Ji Dong, Britt Larsson, Marcelo Rivano Fischer, Björn Gerdle
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PLOS ONE Prevalence of obesity and its associated risk factors among the elderly in Malaysia: Findings from The National Health and Morbidity Survey (NHMS) 2015
September 11, 2020 Suthahar Ariaratnam, Wan Shakira Rodzlan Hasani, Ambigga Devi Krishnapillai, Hamizatul Akmal Abd Hamid, Miaw Yn Jane Ling, Bee Kiau Ho, Sazlina Shariff Ghazali, Noorlaili Mohd Tohit, Muhammad Fadhli Mohd Yusoff
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PLOS ONE Associations between sleep duration and insulin resistance in European children and adolescents considering the mediating role of abdominal obesity
June 30, 2020 Barbara F. Thumann, Nathalie Michels, Regina Felső, Monica Hunsberger, Jaakko Kaprio, Luis A. Moreno, Alfonso Siani, Michael Tornaritis, Toomas Veidebaum, Stefaan De Henauw, Wolfgang Ahrens, Claudia Börnhorst, on behalf of the IDEFICS and I. Family Consortia
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PLOS ONE Prevalence of metabolic syndrome among adult population in India: A systematic review and meta-analysis
October 19, 2020 Yuvaraj Krishnamoorthy, Sathish Rajaa, Sharan Murali, Tanveer Rehman, Jayaprakash Sahoo, Sitanshu Sekhar Kar
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PLOS ONE Prevalence and associated risk factors of general and abdominal obesity in rural and urban women in Bangladesh
May 29, 2020 Farjana Islam, Rahanuma Raihanu Kathak, Abu Hasan Sumon, Noyan Hossain Molla
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PLOS ONE Integrating nutrition and physical activity promotion: A scoping review
June 5, 2020 Laura Casu, Stuart Gillespie, Nicholas Nisbett

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