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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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Extensive weight loss reveals distinct gene expression changes in human subcutaneous and visceral adipose tissue.

TL;DR: It is observed that expression of the genes associated with metabolic reactions involved in NAD+, glutathione and branched chain amino acid metabolism are significantly increased in AT depots after surgery-induced weight loss.
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European obesity and the radiology department. What can we do to help

TL;DR: The epidemiology of Obesity and the role of radiology in the assessment of obesity and disorders of fat metabolism are discussed and the limitations obesity poses to current radiological equipment and how the radiologist can optimise imaging in the obese patient are described.
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Prevalence of general and abdominal obesity in Portugal: comprehensive results from the National Food, nutrition and physical activity survey 2015-2016.

TL;DR: Almost 60% of the general Portuguese population is obese or pre-obese, and abdominal obesity, in particular, seems to be a relevant public health problem among the elderly men.
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Donor–recipient size matching and mortality in heart transplantation: Influence of body mass index and gender

TL;DR: It is indicated that donor weight <70% of recipient weight increases mortality in non-obese heart transplant recipients, but not in obese transplant recipients and gender mismatch increases mortality independently of weight match.
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Anemia is associated with decreased local control of surgically treated squamous cell carcinomas of the glottic larynx

TL;DR: Hemoglobin levels might be predictive even within the normal range as indicated by subgroup analysis and anemia is associated with a high risk of treatment failure in surgically treated glottic cancer.
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