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Accumulating evidence indicates that abdominal adiposity is positively related to cardiovascular disease risk and some other diseases independently of overall adiposity. Exercise-induced weight loss preferentially reduces abdominal fat with obese...
BACKGROUND: An early age of adiposity rebound is known to be a risk factor for later obesity. The purpose of this study was to estimate the adiposity rebound point in...
BACKGROUND: WHO Western Pacific Regional Office (WPRO) has proposed a redefined classification of weight according to body mass index (BMI) for Asian adults in 2000. The purpose of this study...
BACKGROUND: Although the physicians' interest in weight control has increased, their counseling on weight control is still low. This study aims to identify the patient's stage of weight control and...
Choi ES, Lee WY, Choi JH, Kim WJ, Bae JC, Yoo SH, Park SE, Rhee EJ, Park CY, Oh KW, Park SW, Kim SW
KMID: 2270908
Korean J Obes.
2011 Mar;20(1):31-35.
BACKGROUND: Recent data have suggested that adipoctye derived monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) is related to obesity, insulin resistance and atherosclerosis. This study evaluates the relationship between serum MCP-1 concentrations and...
Shin KP, Lee SY, Kim YJ, Lee JG, Kim DH, Jung DW, Yi YH, Park SK, Cho YH
KMID: 2270906
Korean J Obes.
2011 Mar;20(1):16-22.
BACKGROUND: Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of all the risk factors of cardiovascular diseases, in which insulin resistance plays a key role as the pathogenesis. Homocysteine is an amino acid...