The Obesity Epidemic: The United States as a Cautionary Tale for the Rest of the World.

PubWeight™: 1.12‹?› | Rank: Top 10%

🔗 View Article (PMID 24977112)

Published in Curr Epidemiol Rep on June 01, 2014

Authors

Christopher C Imes1, Lora E Burke2

Author Affiliations

1: Health Promotion and Development, University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, imesc@pitt.edu.
2: Health and Community Systems, University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, Pittsburgh, PA 15261.

Articles citing this

Eating tasty food to cope. Longitudinal association with BMI. Appetite (2015) 0.86

Integrative Biological Chemistry Program Includes The Use Of Informatics Tools, GIS And SAS Software Applications. Contemp Issues Educ Res (Littleton) (2015) 0.86

Preventing and Experiencing Ischemic Heart Disease as a Woman: State of the Science: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association. Circulation (2016) 0.83

Obesity reduces the pro-angiogenic potential of adipose tissue stem cell-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) by impairing miR-126 content: impact on clinical applications. Int J Obes (Lond) (2015) 0.82

Stress- and PTSD-associated obesity and metabolic dysfunction: a growing problem requiring further research and novel treatments. Metabolism (2014) 0.81

Emerging Comorbidities in Adult Asthma: Risks, Clinical Associations, and Mechanisms. Mediators Inflamm (2016) 0.77

Sleep, obesity and physicians' education. J Thorac Dis (2016) 0.77

Guidelines on vitamin D replacement in bariatric surgery: Identification and systematic appraisal. Metabolism (2016) 0.77

High risk for obstructive sleep apnea and other sleep disorders among overweight and obese pregnant women. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth (2015) 0.77

Hypovitaminosis D in bariatric surgery: A systematic review of observational studies. Metabolism (2015) 0.77

Does bariatric surgery improve ovarian stimulation characteristics, oocyte yield, or embryo quality? J Ovarian Res (2014) 0.76

Hallucinations associated with miglitol use in a patient with chronic kidney disease and hypothyroidism. BMJ Case Rep (2015) 0.75

Dietary habits and leisure-time physical activity in relation to adiposity, dyslipidemia, and incident dysglycemia in the pathobiology of prediabetes in a biracial cohort study. Metabolism (2015) 0.75

A Potential Tool for Clinicians; Evaluating a Computer-Led Dietary Assessment Method in Overweight and Obese Women during Weight Loss. Nutrients (2017) 0.75

Application of Cognitive-behavioural Techniques on Changes in the Scope of Dieting Self-efficacy Level among Obese People. Iran J Public Health (2017) 0.75

Articles cited by this

Reduction in the incidence of type 2 diabetes with lifestyle intervention or metformin. N Engl J Med (2002) 101.79

Prevalence of obesity and trends in the distribution of body mass index among US adults, 1999-2010. JAMA (2012) 33.54

Heart disease and stroke statistics--2014 update: a report from the American Heart Association. Circulation (2013) 28.02

National, regional, and global trends in body-mass index since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 960 country-years and 9·1 million participants. Lancet (2011) 24.73

Mechanisms linking obesity to insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. Nature (2006) 15.48

Annual medical spending attributable to obesity: payer-and service-specific estimates. Health Aff (Millwood) (2009) 12.45

Prevalence of obesity in the United States, 2009-2010. NCHS Data Brief (2012) 10.88

Health and economic burden of the projected obesity trends in the USA and the UK. Lancet (2011) 10.73

The incidence of co-morbidities related to obesity and overweight: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Public Health (2009) 9.79

Are metabolically healthy overweight and obesity benign conditions?: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Ann Intern Med (2013) 9.66

Progress and challenges in translating the biology of atherosclerosis. Nature (2011) 9.41

Association of bodyweight with total mortality and with cardiovascular events in coronary artery disease: a systematic review of cohort studies. Lancet (2006) 8.61

Obesity and cardiovascular disease: pathophysiology, evaluation, and effect of weight loss: an update of the 1997 American Heart Association Scientific Statement on Obesity and Heart Disease from the Obesity Committee of the Council on Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Metabolism. Circulation (2005) 8.59

Will all Americans become overweight or obese? estimating the progression and cost of the US obesity epidemic. Obesity (Silver Spring) (2008) 7.40

Obesity and cardiovascular disease: risk factor, paradox, and impact of weight loss. J Am Coll Cardiol (2009) 6.23

Obesity paradox in patients with hypertension and coronary artery disease. Am J Med (2007) 5.61

Benefits of modest weight loss in improving cardiovascular risk factors in overweight and obese individuals with type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Care (2011) 5.50

The emerging epidemic of obesity in developing countries. Int J Epidemiol (2005) 5.48

2013 AHA/ACC/TOS guideline for the management of overweight and obesity in adults: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines and The Obesity Society. J Am Coll Cardiol (2013) 5.24

National, regional, and global trends in adult overweight and obesity prevalences. Popul Health Metr (2012) 4.13

Prevalence of obesity among adults: United States, 2011-2012. NCHS Data Brief (2013) 3.75

Body mass index and the prevalence of hypertension and dyslipidemia. Obes Res (2000) 3.60

Maternal obesity during pregnancy and premature mortality from cardiovascular event in adult offspring: follow-up of 1 323 275 person years. BMJ (2013) 3.54

Body mass index and mortality in heart failure: a meta-analysis. Am Heart J (2008) 3.25

The endocrine function of adipose tissue: an update. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) (2006) 3.03

Prevalence of obesity among adults from rural and urban areas of the United States: findings from NHANES (2005-2008). J Rural Health (2012) 2.56

Value of primordial and primary prevention for cardiovascular disease: a policy statement from the American Heart Association. Circulation (2011) 2.08

Behavioral treatment of obesity. Psychiatr Clin North Am (2011) 2.03

Direct medical cost of overweight and obesity in the USA: a quantitative systematic review. Obes Rev (2011) 1.95

Long-term weight loss maintenance in the United States. Int J Obes (Lond) (2010) 1.90

Indirect costs of obesity: a review of the current literature. Obes Rev (2008) 1.80

Impact of morbid obesity on medical expenditures in adults. Int J Obes (Lond) (2005) 1.72

Obstructive sleep apnea: a cardiometabolic risk in obesity and the metabolic syndrome. J Am Coll Cardiol (2013) 1.65

Global gender disparities in obesity: a review. Adv Nutr (2012) 1.54

New dynamics in global obesity facing low- and middle-income countries. Obes Rev (2013) 1.39

The insulin resistance syndrome: physiological considerations. Diab Vasc Dis Res (2007) 1.32

Obesity - United States, 1999-2010. MMWR Surveill Summ (2013) 1.13

Economic costs of overweight and obesity. Best Pract Res Clin Endocrinol Metab (2013) 1.13

Disability pension, employment and obesity status: a systematic review. Obes Rev (2008) 1.05

Using research on the obesity pandemic as a guide to a unified vision of nutrition. Public Health Nutr (2005) 0.94

Overweight, obesity and risk of work disability: a cohort study of construction workers in Germany. Occup Environ Med (2009) 0.92

Obesity: effects on cardiovascular disease and its diagnosis. J Am Board Fam Med (2008) 0.88

Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, apolipoprotein B, and risk of coronary heart disease: from familial hyperlipidemia to genomics. Biol Res Nurs (2012) 0.84

Changes in cardiovascular risk factors with participation in a 12-week weight loss trial using a commercial format. Eat Behav (2013) 0.80

Descriptive study of educated African American women successful at weight-loss maintenance through lifestyle changes. J Gen Intern Med (2012) 0.80