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David F. Williamson
Researcher at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Publications - 176
Citations - 54184
David F. Williamson is an academic researcher from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Overweight. The author has an hindex of 83, co-authored 176 publications receiving 49605 citations. Previous affiliations of David F. Williamson include Pennington Biomedical Research Center.
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Relationship of childhood abuse and household dysfunction to many of the leading causes of death in adults. The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study
Vincent J. Felitti,Robert F. Anda,Dale F. Nordenberg,David F. Williamson,Alison M. Spitz,Valerie J. Edwards,Mary P. Koss,James S. Marks +7 more
TL;DR: For example, this article found a strong relationship between the breadth of exposure to abuse or household dysfunction during childhood and multiple risk factors for several of the leading causes of death in adults.
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Excess deaths associated with underweight, overweight, and obesity.
TL;DR: For example, this paper found that obesity was associated with 111 909 excess deaths (95% confidence interval [CI], 53 754170 064) and underweight with 33 746 excess deaths.
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Cardiovascular effects of intensive lifestyle intervention in type 2 diabetes.
Rena R. Wing,Paula Bolin,Frederick L. Brancati,George A. Bray,Jeanne M. Clark,Mace Coday,Richard S. Crow,Jeffrey M. Curtis,Caitlin Egan,Mark A. Espeland,Mary Evans,John P. Foreyt,Siran Ghazarian,Edward W. Gregg,Barbara Harrison,Helen P. Hazuda,James O. Hill,Edward S. Horton,S. Van Hubbard,John M. Jakicic,Robert W. Jeffery,Karen C. Johnson,Steven E. Kahn,Abbas E. Kitabchi,William C. Knowler,Cora E. Lewis,Barbara J. Maschak-Carey,Maria G. Montez,Anne Murillo,David M. Nathan,Jennifer Patricio,Anne L. Peters,Xavier Pi-Sunyer,Henry J. Pownall,David M. Reboussin,Judith G. Regensteiner,Amy D. Rickman,Donna H. Ryan,Monika M. Safford,Thomas A. Wadden,Lynne E. Wagenknecht,Delia Smith West,David F. Williamson,Susan Z. Yanovski +43 more
TL;DR: An intensive lifestyle intervention focusing on weight loss did not reduce the rate of cardiovascular events in overweight or obese adults with type 2 diabetes.
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Childhood Abuse, Household Dysfunction, and the Risk of Attempted Suicide Throughout the Life Span Findings From the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study
Shanta R. Dube,Robert F. Anda,Vincent J. Felitti,Daniel P. Chapman,David F. Williamson,Wayne H. Giles +5 more
TL;DR: A powerful graded relationship exists between adverse childhood experiences and risk of attempted suicide throughout the life span, and alcoholism, depressed affect, and illicit drug use, which are strongly associated with such experiences, appear to partially mediate this relationship.
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Do Obese Children Become Obese Adults? A Review of the Literature
TL;DR: Although the correlations between anthropometric measures of obesity in childhood and those in adulthood varied considerably among studies, the associations were consistently positive and the risk of adult obesity was at least twice as high for obese children as for nonobese children.