 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 | 16 | 9 | 25 | | 2008 | 18 | 11 | 29 | | 2009 | 30 | 16 | 46 | | 2010 | 22 | 15 | 37 | | 2011 | 28 | 8 | 36 | | 2012 | 26 | 11 | 37 | | 2013 | 25 | 15 | 40 | | 2014 | 28 | 15 | 43 | | 2015 | 30 | 14 | 44 | | 2016 | 25 | 7 | 32 | | 2017 | 23 | 16 | 39 | | 2018 | 23 | 16 | 39 | | 2019 | 21 | 11 | 32 | | 2020 | 7 | 5 | 12 | | 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Obesity" by people in Profiles.
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Wang J, Sato T, Sakuraba A. Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Meets Obesity: Strong Association between the Global Overweight Population and COVID-19 Mortality. J Nutr. 2021 01 04; 151(1):9-10.
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Sakamaki A, Yokoyama K, Koyama K, Morita S, Abe H, Kamimura K, Takamura M, Terai S. Obesity and accumulation of subcutaneous adipose tissue are poor prognostic factors in patients with alcoholic liver cirrhosis. PLoS One. 2020; 15(11):e0242582.
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Kahn JH, Goddi A, Sharma A, Heiman J, Carmona A, Li Y, Hoffman A, Schoenfelt K, Ye H, Bobe AM, Becker L, Hollenberg AN, Cohen RN. SMRT Regulates Metabolic Homeostasis and Adipose Tissue Macrophage Phenotypes in Tandem. Endocrinology. 2020 10 01; 161(10).
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Chitre AS, Polesskaya O, Holl K, Gao J, Cheng R, Bimschleger H, Garcia Martinez A, George T, Gileta AF, Han W, Horvath A, Hughson A, Ishiwari K, King CP, Lamparelli A, Versaggi CL, Martin C, St Pierre CL, Tripi JA, Wang T, Chen H, Flagel SB, Meyer P, Richards J, Robinson TE, Palmer AA, Solberg Woods LC. Genome-Wide Association Study in 3,173 Outbred Rats Identifies Multiple Loci for Body Weight, Adiposity, and Fasting Glucose. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2020 10; 28(10):1964-1973.
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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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Kawai VK, Shi M, Feng Q, Chung CP, Liu G, Cox NJ, Jarvik GP, Lee MTM, Hebbring SJ, Harley JB, Kaufman KM, Namjou B, Larson E, Gordon AS, Roden DM, Stein CM, Mosley JD. Pleiotropy in the Genetic Predisposition to Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Phenome-Wide Association Study and Inverse Variance-Weighted Meta-Analysis. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2020 09; 72(9):1483-1492.
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Sansotta N, Guandalini S, Romano S, Amirikian K, Cipolli M, Tridello G, Barzaghi S, Jericho H. The Gluten Free Diet's Impact on Growth in Children with Celiac Disease in Two Different Countries. Nutrients. 2020 May 26; 12(6).
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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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Sweigert PJ, Chen C, Fahmy JN, Eguia E, Ban KA, deLahunta D, Peters S, Baker MS, Singer MA. Association of obesity with postoperative outcomes after proctectomy. Am J Surg. 2020 10; 220(4):1004-1009.
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