Obesity is gaining acceptance as a serious primary health burden that impairs the quality of
life because of its associated complications, including diabetes, cardiovascular diseases …

Nutritional epidemiology has recently been criticized on several fronts, including the inability
to measure diet accurately, and for its reliance on observational studies to address etiologic …

Background Obesity is generally believed to be a risk factor for the development of
postoperative complications. Although being obese is associated with medical hazards …

The purpose of this ASRM Practice Committee report is to provide clinicians with principles
and strategies for the evaluation and treatment of couples with infertility associated with …

Objectives To determine associations between smoking, adiposity, diabetes mellitus, and
other risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and the 15‐year incidence of hearing …

Much has been published on the characteristics of type 2 diabetes mellitus and its
association with the epidemic of obesity. But relatively little is known about the incidence of …

Background: Little evidence exists on change in diet quality and weight change. Objectives:
We examined the association between change of diet quality indexes and concurrent weight …

Background Obesity is at epidemic proportions and increasing. Bariatric surgical procedures
have demonstrated better durable weight loss than diet and exercise; however, risk may limit …

Background: Despite differences in body shape and adiposity characteristics according to
sex and age, a single range of healthy weight [body mass index (BMI, kg/m 2) of 18.5–24.9) …

Traditional risk factors of cardiovascular death in the general population, including body
mass index (BMI), serum cholesterol, and blood pressure (BP), are also found to relate to …