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The research team sequenced the exome - protein-coding part of the genome - of more than 4,14,000 adults from the UK Biobank study and looked at variants, or mutations, within genes associated with BMI in men and women
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Obesity, considered a non-infectious pandemic, is known to increase the risk o ovarian cancer and decrease the likelihood of surviving the disease.
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The findings suggest that, in addition to other socioeconomic factors such as family poverty, racial discrimination may be a risk factor for young people developing obesity
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The findings, published in the journal Child and Adolescent Obesity, also demonstrated a noticeable decrease in those who overestimate their weight.
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Luckily for these overweight people, modern science has now recognised 'obesity' as a life-style disease that can affect anyone from the middle to the upper-middle classes of society, in any age group.
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India now has over 101 million people living with diabetes, accounting for 11.4% of the population
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The 60-year-old woman from Jhajjar in Haryana was earlier told to go for bariatric surgery to reduce weight and then for knee replacement.
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Apollo in its annual Health of the Nation report points out that rise in preventive screenings has led to an increase in the diagnosis of early risk factors like obesity and Dyslipidemia among Indians
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Obesity is on the rise in India as Indians, especially women, have been growing fatter for the past two-decades.
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According to a new study published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, women with obesity might share the disease's risk with their daughters but not with their sons
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In India, 11% of the population will be obese with a very high annual increase of 5.2% in adult obesity between 2020-2035 and 9.1% increase in childhood obesity
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Childhood obesity among boys and girls in India is likely to see an annual rise of 9.1 per cent by 2035, if prevention, treatment and support do not improve.
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Several types of cancers, infertility, depression, tendency to commit suicide, sexual dysfunction, arthritis, osteoporosis etc., too get either onset or accelerated by obesity.
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The national Anti-Obesity day is celebrated on November 26 every year to create awareness of dangers of obesity and prevention of the pandemic.
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The medical fraternity across the country has undertaken a campaign to create awareness about the deadly disease as part of the Breast Cancer Awareness observed every October.
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A gender wise assessment shows that 21.3 per cent women and 18.5 per cent men belong to overweight/obese category.
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Scientists from Osaka Metropolitan University achieved great progress in this pursuit by using enzymatic cold perfusion to separate HSCs from both murine and human fatty liver-associated malignancies.
Their findings were published in Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
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Evidence suggests an aetiological role of risk factor exposures in early life and young adulthood," said the global study published in the journal Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, and led by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston.
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Washington: The incidence of cancers diagnosed before the age of 50 has dramatically increased around the world, with this rise beginning around 1990, according to a study. These early onset cancers include cancers of the breast, colon, esophagus, kidney, liver, and pancreas among others, the researchers said. Possible risk factors for early-onset cancer include alcohol […]
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Barcelona: Teenagers who sleep less than eight hours a night are more likely to be overweight or obese compared to their peers with sufficient sleep, finds a new study. The study, presented at the ESC Congress 2022, showed that shorter sleepers were also more likely to have a combination of other unhealthy characteristics, including excess […]