 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 | 2 | 5 | | 1989 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1990 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 1991 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1992 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 1993 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 1994 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 1995 | 4 | 3 | 7 | | 1996 | 7 | 0 | 7 | | 1997 | 5 | 3 | 8 | | 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1999 | 3 | 2 | 5 | | 2000 | 7 | 3 | 10 | | 2001 | 2 | 6 | 8 | | 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 | 19 | 11 | 30 | | 2009 | 31 | 16 | 47 | | 2010 | 22 | 15 | 37 | | 2011 | 28 | 9 | 37 | | 2012 | 26 | 11 | 37 | | 2013 | 25 | 15 | 40 | | 2014 | 27 | 15 | 42 | | 2015 | 29 | 13 | 42 | | 2016 | 24 | 7 | 31 | | 2017 | 21 | 13 | 34 | | 2018 | 21 | 16 | 37 | | 2019 | 7 | 4 | 11 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Obesity" by people in Profiles.
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Balaji S, DiLorenzo MP, Fish FA, Etheridge SP, Aziz PF, Russell MW, Tisma S, Pflaumer A, Sreeram N, Kubus P, Law IH, Kantoch MJ, Kertesz NJ, Strieper M, Erickson CC, Moore JP, Nakano SJ, Singh HR, Chang P, Cohen M, Fournier A, Ilina MV, Smith RT, Zimmerman F, Horndasch M, Li W, Batra A, Liberman L, Hamilton R, Janson CM, Sanatani S, Zeltser I, McDaniel G, Blaufox AD, Garnreiter JM, Katcoff H, Shah M. Impact of Obesity on Left Ventricular Thickness in Children with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. Pediatr Cardiol. 2019 Aug; 40(6):1253-1257.
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Effect of Intraoperative High Positive End-Expiratory Pressure (PEEP) With Recruitment Maneuvers vs Low PEEP on Postoperative Pulmonary Complications in Obese Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA. 2019 06 18; 321(23):2292-2305.
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Starnes SE, Nardi F, Fitchev P, Plunkett BA, Thorpe C, Wang CH, Vogler C, Crawford SE. Influence of maternal obesity and metabolic and vascular mediators in twin-twin transfusion syndrome. Reprod Biol. 2019 Jun; 19(2):165-172.
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Kim SY, Lee MS, Chang E, Jung S, Ko H, Lee E, Lee S, Kim CT, Kim IH, Kim Y. Tartary Buckwheat Extract Attenuated the Obesity-Induced Inflammation and Increased Muscle PGC-1a/SIRT1 Expression in High Fat Diet-Induced Obese Rats. Nutrients. 2019 Mar 18; 11(3).
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Ip MSM, Mokhlesi B. Activating Leptin Receptors in the Central Nervous System Using Intranasal Leptin. A Novel Therapeutic Target for Sleep-disordered Breathing. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2019 Mar 15; 199(6):689-691.
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Masa JF, Pépin JL, Borel JC, Mokhlesi B, Murphy PB, Sánchez-Quiroga MÁ. Obesity hypoventilation syndrome. Eur Respir Rev. 2019 Mar 31; 28(151).
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Pereira S, Katzmarzyk PT, Gomes TN, Buranarugsa R, Moura-Dos-Santos MA, Hedeker D, Maia J. Sibling Similarity in Metabolic Syndrome: The Portuguese Sibling Study on Growth, Fitness, Lifestyle and Health. Behav Genet. 2019 05; 49(3):299-309.
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Elmets CA, Leonardi CL, Davis DMR, Gelfand JM, Lichten J, Mehta NN, Armstrong AW, Connor C, Cordoro KM, Elewski BE, Gordon KB, Gottlieb AB, Kaplan DH, Kavanaugh A, Kivelevitch D, Kiselica M, Korman NJ, Kroshinsky D, Lebwohl M, Lim HW, Paller AS, Parra SL, Pathy AL, Prater EF, Rupani R, Siegel M, Stoff B, Strober BE, Wong EB, Wu JJ, Hariharan V, Menter A. Joint AAD-NPF guidelines of care for the management and treatment of psoriasis with awareness and attention to comorbidities. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2019 Apr; 80(4):1073-1113.
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Dybala MP, Olehnik SK, Fowler JL, Golab K, Millis JM, Golebiewska J, Bachul P, Witkowski P, Hara M. Pancreatic beta cell/islet mass and body mass index. Islets. 2019; 11(1):1-9.
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Montefiori LE, Nobrega MA. Gene therapy for pathologic gene expression. Science. 2019 01 18; 363(6424):231-232.
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