Obesity: Risk factors, complications, and strategies for sustainable long‐term weight management

SM Fruh - Journal of the American association of nurse …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
… represents a significant clinical issue for individuals with obesity. However, as significant
as this array of risk factors is for patient health, the risk factors can be positively modified with …

Obesity as a major risk factor for cancer

G De Pergola, F Silvestris - Journal of obesity, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
… in obese patients with BMI higher than 40 kg/m 2 and that matched the surgery group with
untreated morbidly obese … Concerning the role of childhood obesity in adult cancer, a study …

Obesity as a surgical risk factor

M Ri, S Aikou, Y Seto - Annals of gastroenterological surgery, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… However, obese patients had poorer survival in subgroup analyses of studies whose cohorts
of obese and non-obese patients had similar causes of liver disease.65 Furthermore, some …

Treatment of obesity: need to focus on high risk abdominally obese patients

JP Després, I Lemieux, D Prud'Homme - Bmj, 2001 - bmj.com
… shown that abdominal obesity is a major risk factor for the … of risk of coronary heart disease
in abdominally obese patients. … same, abdominally obese patients have increased proportions …

Obesity as a risk factor for nosocomial infections in trauma patients

PE Serrano, SA Khuder, JJ Fath - Journal of the American College of …, 2010 - Elsevier
… have not defined obesity as an independent risk factor for infection in … risk factors for infection
in trauma patients and to evaluate the importance of obesity as an independent risk factor

Obesity as a cardiovascular risk factor

JR Sowers - The American journal of medicine, 2003 - Elsevier
… An inhibitor of fibrinolysis, PAI-1 is high in obese patients and in those with type 2 diabetes.
Recently reported data indicate that the total amount of visceral adipose tissue is correlated …

[PDF][PDF] Obesity is an independent risk factor for clinical decompensation in patients with cirrhosis

A Berzigotti, G Garcia‐Tsao, J Bosch, ND Grace… - …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
… In these settings obesity has been associated with more advanced fibrosis … patients with
chronic hepatitis C.Taken together, these data strongly support that obesity per se is a risk factor

Obesity as a risk factor in renal transplant patients

T Pischon, AM Sharma - Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, 2001 - academic.oup.com
Obesity has been well‐recognized as a risk factor for all kinds of operations [4]. It is … in
obese patients compared to non‐obese patients. Halme et al. [5], reported that obese patients

Severe obesity as an independent risk factor for COVID‐19 mortality in hospitalized patients younger than 50

E Klang, G Kassim, S Soffer, R Freeman, MA Levin… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… to spread, and younger patients are also being critically affected. This study analyzed
obesity as an independent risk factor for mortality in hospitalized patients younger than 50. …

The medical risks of obesity

X Pi-Sunyer - Postgraduate medicine, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Obesity is a significant risk factor for and contributor to … obese patients is 30% and among
the morbidly obese ranges from 50% to 98%.Thus, obesity is the most important risk factor for …