Sentences with phrase «increase obesity prevalence»

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Australia, like other developed nations, has experienced a steep 3-fold increase in the prevalence of adult obesity within a 30 - y time frame.

When infants and young children are not breastfed or when breastfeeding is suboptimal, children risk not only increased rates of infectious diseases such as gastric and respiratory infections, but increasingly research is documenting the impact of not breastfeeding on the prevalence of life long chronic diseases such as cancers, diabetes, obesity and cardio vascular disease.

These include increased prevalence of a range of infectious diseases and health conditions — ear infections, gastrointestinal infections respiratory infections, necrotizing enterocolitis, sepsis, meningitis, diabetes, childhood cancers, obesity, allergies — formula fed infants grow and develop differently from breastmilk fed infants, including cognitive and neural development.

Some recent studies also suggest that skipping breakfast may be associated with an increased prevalence of obesity and can make your child even more susceptible to gaining weight.

Cognitive, language, and motor development increase with nursing; allergies, respiratory issues, diabetes, and obesity all decrease in prevalence with nursing.

Considerable attention has focused on diet and physical activity patterns, both in childhood and adult life, and on the associated increases in the prevalence of obesity (1).

Further to this, the prevalence of obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus is rising worldwide and the percentage of young people affected is increasing.

This has led not only to an obesity epidemic, but also to a rapid increase in the prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), which is due to extensive accumulation of fat in the liver and resembles alcoholic liver disease in people who do not exceed two drinks a day of alcohol.

The prevalence of obesity increased rapidly from 1976 to 2002, but has since stabilized.

For the 2.2 million Americans with schizophrenia and the 5.7 million Americans with bipolar disorder, the increased prevalence of obesity and its related diseases such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease is particularly disconcerting.

«Our hypothesis was that there is increased prevalence of cerebral microbleeds in MS because progression of that disease is associated with increased likelihood of cardiovascular comorbidities, including hypertension, altered lipid metabolism, overweight / obesity, smoking and diabetes and migraine, all risk factors for cerebral microbleeds,» he said.

«The increase in the prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity, which began in the 1970s, has grown into a global epidemic.

Professor Yajun Chen, from the School of Public Health at Sun Yat - Sen University, in Guangzhou said: «The prevalence of obesity in China is alarming as the country undergoes rapid economic transition, leading to changes to traditional diet, increased sedentary lifestyles and reduced physical activity.

While the mechanism by which a significant weight loss can reduce asthma - associated risks is unknown, studies have linked obesity to increased inflammation, higher prevalence of gastroesophageal reflux disease, and physical changes in the airway — all of which could contribute to asthma severity.

Analyzing the baseline risk factors and health conditions of patients in each grouping, they found the average age of STEMI patients decreased from 64 to 60, and the prevalence of obesity increased from 31 to 40 percent between the first five - year span and the last five - year span.

However, there has been a dramatic increase in the prevalence of obesity over the past 50 years, which is far too little time for changes in the genome to have occurred.

Data from 1980 to 2013 show that the biggest increases in the prevalence of obesity in women occurred in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Honduras and Bahrain, and for men, in New Zealand, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United States.

The increase is partly due to the rising prevalence of obesity, which is associated with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and steatohepatitis (NASH).

While increasing body mass index (BMI), a measure of obesity, was associated with increased risk for high blood pressure in all four examined ethnic groups, the prevalence of high blood pressure was almost 6 times higher among obese Hispanic adolescents compared to normal weight Hispanics.

Obesity raises the prevalence of high blood pressure among adolescents but the increase is particularly pronounced among Hispanics compared to white, African - American or Asian ethnic groups, according to a study by researchers at McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).

Many researchers think the increasing prevalence of childhood obesity plays a role in this trend.

As in prior studies among older adults, we found that obesity was associated with a decreased risk of dementia, consistent with the hypothesis that, while obesity in mid-life may increase risk for later - life cognitive decline and dementia, obesity at older ages may be associated with cognitive and other health advantages.25 - 27 The trend toward a declining risk for dementia in the face of a large increase in the prevalence of diabetes suggests that improvements in treatments between 2000 and 2012 may have decreased dementia risk, along with the documented declines in the incidence of common diabetes - related complications, such as heart attack, stroke, and amputations.11 Our finding of a significant decline between 2000 and 2012 of the heart disease - related OR for dementia would also be consistent with improved cardiovascular treatments leading to a decline in dementia risk.

The prevalence of obesity and diabetes among those 65 years or older increased significantly between 2000 and 2012, and diabetes was associated with 39 % higher odds of dementia, after controlling for all other factors.

In contrast to the increased prevalence of HTN, T2D, and obesity observed with increasing westernization, the distribution of serum lipid parameters is remarkably uniform across African ancestry populations.

Striking sex and regional differences in the increase of obesity - related T2DM prevalence developed throughout the last 3 decades, reflecting complex relationships with differences in ethnicity, migration, culture, lifestyle, gene - environment interactions, socioeconomic status (SES) and social roles (12).

This prevalence keeps increasing, along with aging and obesity, which are major risk factors for degenerative skeletal diseases.

Context Although levels of physical activity and aerobic capacity decline with age and the prevalence of obesity tends to increase with age, the independent and joint associations among fitness, adiposity, and mortality in older adults have not been adequately examined.

Obesity leads also to obstructive sleep apnoea, which has increased in prevalence steadily over the past decade across all EU countries.

Sensitivity was higher in women (64 %, 95 % CI 63 - 65) than in men (53 %, 95 % CI 51 - 55), and increased with the prevalence of obesity.

I think we can all agree that the excess of refined carbohydrate in our modern diet (primarily from sugar, wheat and corn) is a major culprit of the increased prevalence of obesity and diabetes in our culture.

«Human intestinal bacteria have been linked to the increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity, and scientists have started to investigate whether the intestinal bacteria can play a role in the treatment of being overweight,» explained the study's author, professor Arne Astrup, head of the Department of Nutrition, Exercise, and Sports at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark (he shared many of the findings of his remarkable weight - loss research with mbg back in April).

Osteoarthritis disability is rapidly becoming a significant public health issue with experts indicating that by 2020 the amount of people having osteoarthritis would have doubled as a result of increasing prevalence of obesity as well as the aging of the generation of «baby boomers».

This decrease in sleep duration has occurred over the same time as the increase in the prevalence of obesity and diabetes.

In time, scientists on the 2000 DGAC realized that the emphasis on reducing fat in the diet could lead to «adverse metabolic consequences» resulting from a high intake of sugars and starches.39 They went on to note that «an increasing prevalence in obesity in the United States has corresponded roughly with an absolute increase in carbohydrate consumption.»

Siri Tarino stated, «However, replacement of saturated fat by carbohydrates, particularly refined carbohydrates and added sugars, increases levels of triglyceride and small LDL particles and reduces high - density lipoprotein cholesterol, effects that are of particular concern in the context of the increased prevalence of obesity and insulin resistance.

Obesity has been associated with an increased prevalence of hay fever and poorer control of this disease.

In contrast, our analyses using data from the same surveys indicate that the prevalence of abdominal obesity is still increasing.

The global prevalence of obesity has increased considerably in the last decade.

Fasting may help explain the increased prevalence of overweight and obesity in Saudi Arabia — with overfat prevalence that exceeds 90 percent.

The mean weight of the subjects increased over time (Table 1), with intensive therapy having an association with increasing prevalence of obesity (body mass index ≥ 30), from 1 % of subjects at the DCCT baseline (secondary to eligibility criteria) to 31 % at EDIC year 12.

«A lack of action would result in massive increases in agriculture's environmental impacts including the clearing of 200 to 1,000 million hectares of land for agricultural use, an approximately three-fold increase in fertiliser and pesticide applications, an 80 % increase in agricultural GHG emissions and a rapid rise in the prevalence of diet - related diseases such as obesity and diabetes.»

FGovernment support for industrial crop production has led to an increase in corn - and soy - fed animals, and increased production of «junk» foods that use corn (e.g., high fructose corn syrup), wheat, and soy as their base, ultimately contributing to the prevalence of health problems such as heart disease, obesity, and type 2 diabetes.

The increasing prevalence of certain conditions, such as obesity and diabetes, also will increase demand for healthcare services and medical assistants.

Felitti and colleagues1 first described ACEs and defined it as exposure to psychological, physical or sexual abuse, and household dysfunction including substance abuse (problem drinking / alcoholic and / or street drugs), mental illness, a mother treated violently and criminal behaviour in the household.1 Along with the initial ACE study, other studies have characterised ACEs as neglect, parental separation, loss of family members or friends, long - term financial adversity and witness to violence.2 3 From the original cohort of 9508 American adults, more than half of respondents (52 %) experienced at least one adverse childhood event.1 Since the original cohort, ACE exposures have been investigated globally revealing comparable prevalence to the original cohort.4 5 More recently in 2014, a survey of 4000 American children found that 60.8 % of children had at least one form of direct experience of violence, crime or abuse.6 The ACE study precipitated interest in the health conditions of adults maltreated as children as it revealed links to chronic diseases such as obesity, autoimmune diseases, heart, lung and liver diseases, and cancer in adulthood.1 Since then, further evidence has revealed relationships between ACEs and physical and mental health outcomes, such as increased risk of substance abuse, suicide and premature mortality.4 7

Pediatric overweight and obesity have dramatically increased over the years, and current prevalence rates have reached alarming proportions.1, 2 Because of the impact the condition exerts on physical and psychosocial health, 3, — , 5 effective treatment is urgently needed.

The increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity in many countries has been shown to contribute to the development of a range of chronic diseases and is considered by many to constitute a public health crisis.