 Obesity
"Obesity" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A status with BODY WEIGHT that is grossly above the acceptable or desirable weight, usually due to accumulation of excess FATS in the body. The standards may vary with age, sex, genetic or cultural background. In the BODY MASS INDEX, a BMI greater than 30.0 kg/m2 is considered obese, and a BMI greater than 40.0 kg/m2 is considered morbidly obese (MORBID OBESITY).
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D009765
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C18.654.726.500 C23.888.144.699.500 E01.370.600.115.100.160.120.699.500 G07.100.100.160.120.699.500
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Obesity" by people in this website by year, and whether "Obesity" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1980 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 1982 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1984 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 1987 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1988 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 1989 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1990 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 1992 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 1993 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 1994 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 1995 | 4 | 3 | 7 | | 1996 | 7 | 0 | 7 | | 1997 | 4 | 3 | 7 | | 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1999 | 3 | 2 | 5 | | 2000 | 7 | 3 | 10 | | 2001 | 2 | 5 | 7 | | 2002 | 10 | 5 | 15 | | 2003 | 8 | 2 | 10 | | 2004 | 11 | 6 | 17 | | 2005 | 15 | 10 | 25 | | 2006 | 18 | 6 | 24 | | 2007 | 15 | 9 | 24 | | 2008 | 18 | 11 | 29 | | 2009 | 29 | 16 | 45 | | 2010 | 22 | 15 | 37 | | 2011 | 28 | 8 | 36 | | 2012 | 26 | 11 | 37 | | 2013 | 25 | 15 | 40 | | 2014 | 27 | 15 | 42 | | 2015 | 30 | 12 | 42 | | 2016 | 25 | 7 | 32 | | 2017 | 22 | 15 | 37 | | 2018 | 23 | 16 | 39 | | 2019 | 19 | 9 | 28 | | 2020 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Obesity" by people in Profiles.
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Pettit NN, MacKenzie EL, Ridgway JP, Pursell K, Ash D, Patel B, Pho MT. Obesity is Associated with Increased Risk for Mortality Among Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2020 10; 28(10):1806-1810.
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Bhasin A, Nam H, Yeh C, Lee J, Liebovitz D, Achenbach C. Is BMI Higher in Younger Patients with COVID-19? Association Between BMI and COVID-19 Hospitalization by Age. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2020 10; 28(10):1811-1814.
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Heimberger S, Mueller A, Ratnaparkhi R, Perdigao JL, Rana S. Angiogenic factor abnormalities and risk of peripartum complications and prematurity among urban predominantly obese parturients with chronic hypertension. Pregnancy Hypertens. 2020 Apr; 20:124-130.
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Drake M, Ginde S, Cohen S, Bartz P, Sowinski J, Reinhardt E, Saleska T, Earing MG. Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Impact of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adults with Congenital Heart Disease. Pediatr Cardiol. 2020 Apr; 41(4):724-728.
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Gogokhia L, Taur Y, Juluru K, Yagan N, Zhu YS, Pamer E, Glesby MJ. Intestinal Dysbiosis and Markers of Systemic Inflammation in Viscerally and Generally Obese Persons Living With HIV. . 2020 01 01; 83(1):81-89.
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Thornton PL, Kumanyika SK, Gregg EW, Araneta MR, Baskin ML, Chin MH, Crespo CJ, de Groot M, Garcia DO, Haire-Joshu D, Heisler M, Hill-Briggs F, Ladapo JA, Lindberg NM, Manson SM, Marrero DG, Peek ME, Shields AE, Tate DF, Mangione CM. New research directions on disparities in obesity and type 2 diabetes. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2020 02; 1461(1):5-24.
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Wei L, Surma M, Yang Y, Tersey S, Shi J. ROCK2 inhibition enhances the thermogenic program in white and brown fat tissue in mice. FASEB J. 2020 01; 34(1):474-493.
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Menter A, Cordoro KM, Davis DMR, Kroshinsky D, Paller AS, Armstrong AW, Connor C, Elewski BE, Gelfand JM, Gordon KB, Gottlieb AB, Kaplan DH, Kavanaugh A, Kiselica M, Kivelevitch D, Korman NJ, Lebwohl M, Leonardi CL, Lichten J, Lim HW, Mehta NN, Parra SL, Pathy AL, Farley Prater EA, Rupani RN, Siegel M, Stoff B, Strober BE, Wong EB, Wu JJ, Hariharan V, Elmets CA. Joint American Academy of Dermatology-National Psoriasis Foundation guidelines of care for the management and treatment of psoriasis in pediatric patients. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2020 Jan; 82(1):161-201.
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Mokhlesi B, Temple KA, Tjaden AH, Edelstein SL, Nadeau KJ, Hannon TS, Manchanda S, Sam S, Barengolts E, Utzschneider KM, Ehrmann DA, Van Cauter E. The association of sleep disturbances with glycemia and obesity in youth at risk for or with recently diagnosed type 2 diabetes. Pediatr Diabetes. 2019 12; 20(8):1056-1063.
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Kang T, Boland BB, Alarcon C, Grimsby JS, Rhodes CJ, Larsen MR. Proteomic Analysis of Restored Insulin Production and Trafficking in Obese Diabetic Mouse Pancreatic Islets Following Euglycemia. J Proteome Res. 2019 09 06; 18(9):3245-3258.
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