2025 September - 18 articles
This paper investigates the prevalence of obesity and its links to health and dietary habits in middle-aged and older populations in Europe (50+), with a particular focus on Croatia. In Croatia, only 33.9% of adults have a normal BMI, while almost tw...
Obesity is a major public health concern among police officers, yet the links between occupational stress, disordered eating, and obesity remain unclear. This cross-sectional study examined 496 North Carolina officers to (1) assess severity of occupa...
Obesity has emerged as one of the most significant public health challenges of the 21st century, with its prevalence increasing at an alarming rate globally. While individual factors such as diet and physical inactivity are well-known contributors, t...
Aims: Individual weight loss results achieved with Glucagon-like Peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RA) vary significantly. Our aim was to describe the characteristics of patients with obesity who achieved ≥ 20% total weight loss (TWL) on liragluti...
Introduction: Subclinical atherosclerosis is increasingly recognized in younger populations, often progressing silently until the onset of overt cardiovascular events. Carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) is a validated, non-invasive biomarker of ea...
Obesity is a global problem, increasing interest in adipose tissue (AT) biology. One of the techniques for analyzing visceral adipose tissue (VAT) and phase angle (PhA) is bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA). PhA is considered an indicator of cell...
Prior research from Ghana suggests psychosocial stress is associated with lower body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC), both markers of adiposity, contrasting with meta-analyses showing positive associations in other settings. This study...
Circadian rhythms are intrinsic 24 h cycles that regulate metabolic processes across multiple tissues, with skeletal muscle emerging as a central node in this temporal network. Muscle clocks govern gene expression, fuel utilisation, mitochondrial fun...
Our four-year interdisciplinary behavioral weight loss program is fully covered by public health insurance for patients with a body mass index of ≥35 kg/m2. We evaluated the real-world outcomes of anthropometric, metabolic and psychologic paramete...
Objective: To investigate the association between combined physical activity (PA) levels and sedentary behavior (SB) with dynapenic abdominal obesity (DAO) and dynapenic obesity (DO) in older adults. Methods: This cross-sectional, population-based ep...
Westernization of traditional diets has been implicated in the rising burden of overweight/obesity and type 2 diabetes, especially in developing countries. In recent times, diet therapy is increasingly being recognized as an essential component of di...
Background: Worldwide, the awareness about childhood obesity as a public health concern is increasing, particularly in developing countries like Pakistan. Obesity during early childhood may persist into later ages, increasing the risk of chronic illn...
Body image and mental health outcomes are influenced by both sex and body weight. This study investigated how sex and BMI category (participants classified with healthy weight, overweight, or with obesity) relate to body image, disordered eating, wei...
Objective: The present study is a qualitative analysis of participant experiences and perspectives from people who received cognitive remediation therapy for adult obesity (CRT-O). Method: Post-intervention data were generated from an open-ended ques...
Mississippi has long been one of the most obese states in the U.S., with its obesity rates consistently exceeding the national average. The state’s severe obesity rate is also among the highest in the nation. This study utilized the 2011 to 202...
Vitamin D deficiency is highly prevalent in individuals with overweight/obesity and this can be largely attributed to the entrapment of VitD in adipose tissue due to impaired lipolytic stimulation. Considering the well-described role of exercise in s...
Obesity in the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) of Texas remains a critical public health concern, with rates (46.9%) significantly exceeding those of Texas (36%) and the U.S. (34%) (p < 0.001). This study used 2024 County Health Rankings data to analyze e...
Despite being acknowledged as a complex and multi-faceted condition, the prevailing view within society is that obesity is the result of individual choices and can be reversed simply by “eating less and moving more”. This is oversimplisti...
