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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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Obesity paradox in coronary artery bypass grafting: myth or reality?

TL;DR: Obesity did not increase operative mortality, but it was associated with reduced late survival in patients undergoing primary isolated CABG, raising concerns in supporting any protective effect of obesity in cardiovascular disease, specifically in Patients undergoing surgical myocardial revascularization.
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Prevalence and Etiology of Obesity - An Overview

TL;DR: Obesity develops as a complex interaction between a person's genes and the environment characterized by long-term energy imbalance due to excessive caloric consumption, insufficient energy out put (sedentary lifestyle, low resting metabolic rate) or both.
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Changing risk behaviours for non-communicable disease in New Zealand working men--is workplace intervention effective?

TL;DR: Low intensity workplace intervention can significantly improve reported health behaviours and nutrition knowledge although the impact on more objective measures of risk was variable.
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Low-lipid diet reduces frequency and severity of acute migraine attacks.

TL;DR: In this group of patients, the low- Lipid diet significantly affected the number and severity of migraine attacks in comparison to a normal-lipid diet.
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The association between weight history and physical performance in the Health, Aging and Body Composition study.

TL;DR: Men and women who had a history of being overweight or obese at ages 25 or 50 had worse physical performance compared to those who were normal weight throughout or who were overweight or obesity at ages 70–79 but not in midlife or earlier.
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