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Clinical guidelines on the identification, evaluation, and treatment of overweight and obesity in adults: Executive summary

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This article is published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.The article was published on 1998-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 3575 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Overweight.

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Body mass index and the risk of recurrent coronary events following acute myocardial infarction.

TL;DR: Excess adiposity as measured by BMI was associated with an increased risk of recurrent coronary events following AMI, particularly among those who were obese.
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Sex-age-specific association of body mass index with all-cause mortality among 12.8 million Korean adults: a prospective cohort study

TL;DR: Women had a lower optimal BMI than men, especially at younger ages, and the optimal BMI increased with age, however, change in optimal BMI with age was more profound in women than in men.
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Whole grain and fiber consumption are associated with lower body weight measures in US adults: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999-2004

TL;DR: Overall whole grain intake well below recommendations, and adults who consumed the most servings of whole grains had lower body weight measures, suggest that fiber in whole grain foods may mediate associations with weight measures in adults.
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Changes in depressive symptoms after continuous positive airway pressure treatment for obstructive sleep apnea.

TL;DR: It is suggested that depressive symptoms experienced by OSA patients are not solely the result of physical OSA symptoms but include a mood component as well, and a hypothetical model is introduced to conceptualize the relationship between OSA and depression.
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