En este artículo los autores explican la evolución histórica del estigma de la obesidad y las consecuencias de su internalización sobre la salud de las personas que lo sufren. Hacen especial hincapié en las conductas del equipo de salud que refuerzan este estigma, basadas en la gordofobia que tambi...
Abstract Obesity-related prejudice and discrimination may have a source in health professionals and students. The objective was to assess anti-fat attitudes among Brazilian nutrition undergraduates who reported demographic data, weight, height and responded the Antifat Attitudes Test (AFAT) and the Brazi...
Werneck, André Oliveira;
Silva, Danilo Rodrigues Pereira da;
Silva, Ellen Caroline Mendes da;
Collings, Paul;
Ohara, David;
Fernandes, Rômulo Araújo;
Barbosa, Décio Sabbatini;
Ronque, Enio Ricardo Vaz;
Sardinha, Luís Bettencourt;
Cyrino, Edilson Serpeloni.
Abstract Our aim was to analyze the joint association of parental characteristics and offspring obesity indicators with metabolic risk in adolescents. A cross-sectional study was carried out with 972 adolescents and their parents. We observed that overweight adolescents who have a normal weight mother sh...
Objective: it is well known that low omentin levels and reduced bioavailability of nitric oxide (NO) are outgrowth of obesity. Besides, in obese subjects, microvascular dysfunction can be an initial stage of cardiovascular diseases. This situation can be evaluated with skin laser–Doppler flowmetry (LDF...
Alves, Teresa Souza;
Gonzaga, Mariana da Costa;
Moreira, Igor Louzada;
Machado, Mizael;
Sousa, Davi Emanuel Ribeiro de;
Pinto, Érica Garcia de Araújo;
Castro, Márcio Botelho de;
Borges, José Renato Junqueira;
Soto-Blanco, Benito;
Câmara, Antônio Carlos Lopes.
The downer cow syndrome (DCS) is characterized by an alert cow showing inability or reluctance to stand for 12 hours or more. This paper reported clinical, laboratory, and pathological findings in a Guzerá heifer with rhabdomyolysis, pigmenturia and acute renal failure following DCS. A 17-month-old Guze...
ABSTRACT OBJECTIVES To estimate the relative risk (RR) of death associated with obesity, the attributable fraction in the exposed/with obesity (AFo), and the hospitalized population attributable risk (hospitalized PAR) associated with obesity of death among all adults and among Black and non-Black adul...
Los regímenes basados en la restricción intermitente de la ingesta de alimentos, como el ayuno intermitente, pueden parecer novedosos pero constituyen en realidad una práctica milenaria. Muchas veces en nuestras consultas como médicos de familia los pacientes con problemas de sobrepeso u obesidad nos...
Ayuno,
Ensayos Clínicos Controlados Aleatorios como Asunto,
Factores de Riesgo de Enfermedad Cardiaca,
Hipertensión/metabolismo,
Obesidad/dietoterapia,
Obesidad/metabolismo,
Pérdida de Peso,
Privación de Alimentos,
Restricción Calórica/métodos,
Revisiones Sistemáticas como Asunto,
Sobrepeso/dietoterapia,
Sobrepeso/metabolismo
This study sought to identify the Social Representations of Obesity among 15 individuals who underwent bariatric surgery through the Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass (RYGB) method and were subjected to Argon Plasma Coagulation (APC) due to weight relapse. Data were collected through interviews and analyzed via D...
Epidemiological studies have supported the hypothesis that dietary calcium intake is protective for adiposity. This study aimed to estimate the association of dietary calcium with adiposity indicators during adolescence. This is a cohort study with high school adolescents (n = 962) from selected schools ...
Nutritional status has evolved in a dual trend worldwide: underweight has become a minor or local issue while overweight or obesity has risen to play a major role in the global burden of disease. In 2014, Brazil was ranked as the third country with the highest absolute number of obese men. Our aim was to...
