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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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Effect of Roux-en Y Gastric Bypass on Bone Metabolism in Patients with Morbid Obesity: Mansoura Experiences

TL;DR: It is shown that RYGBP operation gives very good results as regards reduction of body weight in morbidly obese patients and postoperative supplementation with calcium and vitamin D partially corrects osteoporosis.
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Recomendações de alimentação e nutrição saudável para a população brasileira

TL;DR: The main messages are: eat at least four meals a day, and do not skip meals; maintain a healthy weight; increase daily physical activity and exercise; eat rice and beans with vegetables everyday; eat four to five portions of fruits everyday; reduce sugar, sweets and sodas; choose a fruit instead of deep fried foods or sweets for snacks; use salt only in moderation; use oil or olive oil instead of other fats; drink or eat low fat dairy products at least three times a day as mentioned in this paper.
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Low-Grade Inflammation and Microalbuminuria in Hypertension

TL;DR: Microalbuminuria accompanied by evidence of subclinical inflammation is a strong correlate of metabolic abnormalities in essential hypertension and identifies a patient subset at very high cardiovascular risk.

Increasing trends in central obesity among Chinese adults with normal body mass index

TL;DR: An upward trend was observed in the prevalence of central obesity among participants with normal BMI irrespective of sex, age, rural/urban settings, and education level and central obesity is associated with a higher risk of incident hypertension within normal BMI category.
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Weight gain after bariatric surgery as a result of a large gastric stoma: endotherapy with sodium morrhuate may prevent the need for surgical revision.

TL;DR: Endoscopic injection of sodium morrhuate surrounding the dilated gastric stoma complicating bariatric surgery appears to be a successful, less-invasive therapeutic alternative to surgical revision.
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