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Browsing by Subject "Offita"
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(2016-02-03)Inngangur: Markmið rannsóknarinnar var að meta skammtíma- og langtímaárangur fjögurra vikna þverfaglegrar hópmeðferðar vegna offitu með eftirfylgd ásamt því að bera saman árangur þeirra sem fóru í hjáveituað- gerð og hinna sem ekki fóru í slíka aðgerð. ... -
(Elsevier BV, 2020-03)Background: Overweight status and asthma have increased during the last decades. Being overweight is a known risk factor for asthma, but it is not known whether it might also increase asthma risk in the next generation. Objective: We aimed to examine ...
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(BMJ, 2020-02-25)Background: Previous studies have reported an association between weight increase and excess lung function decline in young adults followed for short periods. We aimed to estimate lung function trajectories during adulthood from 20-year weight change ...
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(Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-04-25)Life course data on obesity may enrich the quality of epidemiologic studies analysing health consequences of obesity. However, achieving such data may require substantial resources. We investigated the use of body silhouettes in adults as a tool to ...
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(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-06-13)Purpose: Obesity increases the risk of several cancers, but the influence of bariatric surgery on the risk of individual obesity-related cancers is unclear. This study aimed to assess the impact of bariatric surgery on cancer risk in a multi-national ...
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(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2018-09-12)Background: The aim of this investigation was to study change in adults over a 20 year period in the prevalence of respiratory symptoms and disorders and its association to year of birth, life style and sleep related variables. Method: Adults 20-44 ...
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(2020-01-21)Background: Obesity has been longitudinally associated with depression but only few studies take a life course approach. This longitudinal study investigates whether being overweight or obese at age 8 and 13 years is associated with depressive symptoms ...
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(Frontiers Media SA, 2020-04-15)Stimulated by the need to understand the specific effects of exercise on children, the current Frontiers Research Topic was carried out to collect a set of studies that highlight important findings related to the impact of exercise in this population. ...
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(Elsevier Editora Ltda, 2016-11-04)Objective: To investigate the effects of multidisciplinary treatment with and without psychological counseling on obese adolescents’ self-reported quality of life. Methods: Seventy-six obese adolescents (15.87 ± 1.53 y) were allocated into ...
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(MDPI, 2019-11-02)Unhealthy lifestyles, low levels of physical fitness, and adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MD) are associated with bad quality of life and the development of a wide range of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The current study aimed to evaluate the ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of History and Philosophy, 2022-05-03)This thesis explores the meaning of medicine and considers ethical challenges that arise when medicine's limits are tested as it enters new grounds. The methodology and argumentation used in the thesis can be described as a two-step process. In the ...
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(Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-06-15)Introduction The interaction between fatness, fitness, and C-reactive protein (CRP) in adolescents is not well characterized but may be important to prevent low grade inflammation. The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship between ...
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(University of Iceland, 2022-03-18)Difficult eating behaviours such as fussy eating are consistently found in young children, and those with neurodevelopmental disorders (ND) such as Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), Attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD), anxiety, and depression. ...
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(Springer Nature, 2017-04-26)Few genome-wide association studies (GWAS) account for environmental exposures, like smoking, potentially impacting the overall trait variance when investigating the genetic contribution to obesity-related traits. Here, we use GWAS data from 51,080 ...
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(Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-04-27)Physical activity (PA) may modify the genetic effects that give rise to increased risk of obesity. To identify adiposity loci whose effects are modified by PA, we performed genome-wide interaction meta-analyses of BMI and BMI-adjusted waist circumference ...
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(MDPI AG, 2018-11-24)Childhood and adolescent obesity are currently among the greatest challenges for public health. Physical activity, physical fitness, and adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MD), representing powerful indicators of healthy lifestyles, are shown as ...
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(Menntavísindasvið Háskóla Íslands, 2016-12-31)Í þessari grein verður fjallað um þá spurningu hvers vegna offita er í síauknum mæli við- fang heilbrigðisstétta og hvort sú þróun sé til hagsbóta fyrir feitt fólk. Þótt Alþjóðaheilbrigðismálastofnunin hafi lýst því yfir að offita sé meðal alvarlegustu ...
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(MDPI AG, 2019-05-10)Obesity is a complex disease resulting in several metabolic co-morbidities and is increasing at epidemic rates. The marine environment is an interesting resource of novel compounds and in particular cyanobacteria are well known for their capacity to ...
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(Springer Nature, 2017-05-11)Protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B (PTP1B) is a well-known inhibitor of insulin signaling pathways and inhibitors against PTP1B are being developed as promising drug candidates for treatment of obesity. PTP1B has also been linked to breast cancer both as ...
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(MDPI AG, 2018-01-11)Obese children are usually less active than their normal-weight counterparts, although the reasons for this remain unclear. The objective of the present study was to determine how a long-term program (3 years of intervention and 6 months of follow-up ...
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