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Gestational diabetes mellitus in Africa: a systematic review.
Background Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is any degree of impaired glucose tolerance first recognised during pregnancy. Most women with GDM revert to normal glucose... -
Additional file 5: of Fetuin-A levels are increased in the adipose tissue of ...
Figure S2. Adiponectin levels and effect of exercise on the subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) of obese subjects with and without diabetes. Immunofluorescence analysis of... -
Understanding a successful obesity prevention initiative in children under 5 ...
Introduction/Background Systems thinking represents an innovative and logical approach to understanding complexity in community-based obesity prevention interventions. We... -
Relationship between Research Outcomes and Risk of Bias, Study Sponsorship, a...
Background Artificially sweetened beverage consumption has steadily increased in the last 40 years. Several reviews examining the effects of artificially sweetened beverages... -
Measuring the importance of vertices in the weighted human disease network
AbstractMany human genetic disorders and diseases are known to be related to each other through frequently observed co-occurrences. Studying the correlations among multiple... -
Using Crowdsourcing to Evaluate Published Scientific Literature: Methods and ...
Systematically evaluating scientific literature is a time consuming endeavor that requires hours of coding and rating. Here, we describe a method to distribute these tasks... -
Small Molecule-Induced Complement Factor D (Adipsin) Promotes Lipid Accumulat...
Adipocytes are differentiated by various transcriptional cascades integrated on the master regulator, PparĪ³. To discover new genes involved in adipocyte differentiation,... -
Association between maternal overweight or obesity and cerebral palsy in chil...
Context There is no consensus regarding the association between maternal obesity or overweight and cerebral palsy (CP) in children. Objectives To investigate whether... -
Ethical issues in the development and implementation of nutrition-related pub...
Background The limited integration of ethics in nutrition-related public health policies and interventions is one major concern for those who have the task of implementing... -
Productivity, impact, and collaboration differences between transdisciplinary...
: Transdisciplinary (TD) approaches are increasingly used to address complex public health problems such as childhood obesity. Compared to traditional grant-funded scientific... -
Relationship between pickiness and subsequent development in body mass index ...
Background:Most children have periods in their life where they reject familiar as well as non-familiar food items and this is often referred to as pickiness. The consequences of... -
The association between maternal body mass index and child obesity: A systema...
Background There is a global obesity crisis, particularly among women and disadvantaged populations. Early-life intervention to prevent childhood obesity is a priority for...
