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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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Strategies to prevent weight gain in adults: a systematic review.

TL;DR: The strength of evidence is low for all strategies, but effective approaches may include low-fat diets, eating fewer meals prepared away from home, eating more fruits and vegetables, monitoring heart rate during exercise, and participation in group lifestyle sessions with reminder text messages.
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Hepatitis C infection is associated with lower lipids and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein in HIV-infected men.

TL;DR: An association of lower serum lipid and CRP levels with HCV infection is demonstrated and it is suggested that HCV status should be assessed as an important correlate of cardiovascular risk factors in studies of older men with or at risk for HIV.
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Divergent fifteen-year trends in traditional and cardiometabolic risk factors of cardiovascular diseases in the Seychelles.

TL;DR: In this population, the rapid health transition was characterized by substantial changes in the patterns of CVD-RF, suggesting the importance of surveillance systems to identify risk factor trends and the need for preventive strategies to promote healthy lifestyles and nutrition.
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Enhanced recovery after body-contouring surgery: reducing surgical complication rates by optimizing nutrition.

TL;DR: Obese nonbariatric and post bariatric patients are at nutritional risk for many primary ingredients of wound healing and immune system competency and appropriate nutritional supplementation is an effective means for correcting these nutritional parameters and can significantly reduce surgical complications associated with obesity and bariatric surgery.
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A longitudinal study of pediatric body mass index values predicted health in middle age

TL;DR: Pediatric BMI may predict adult obesity and overweight with a reasonable profile of sensitivity and specificity according to the international reference and the 85th and 95th percentiles.
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