Obesity, insulin resistance and diabetes — a worldwide epidemic

By Jacob Seidell1. British Journal of Nutrition, 2000

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Hyperuricemia and Incident Hypertension: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2011, background): “Given the increasing worldwide prevalence of obesity and metabolic syndrome in recent decades (48) and the high burden of these conditions in the US (49), adjusting for adiposity and insulin resistance might explain why there were lower effect estimates in studies conducted more recently and based o”
Burnout and risk of cardiovascular disease: evidence, possible causal paths, and promising research directions. (2006, background): “The past two decades have witnessed an explosive increase in the number of people diagnosed with diabetes worldwide, particularly with Type 2 diabetes (Seidell, 2000; Zimmet, Alberti, & Shaw, 2001).”
Nutrition Transition and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Middle East and North Africa Countries: Reviewing the Evidence (2010, background): “Results Overweight and Obesity Available data indicate that the prevalence of obesity in countries of the MENA region has reached high levels, exceeding at times those of developed countries such as the USA and Europe, where 32.2 and 10–20p, respectively, of the adult population are reported as obe”
Associations between Borg’s rating of perceived exertion and physiological measures of exercise intensity (2012, result): “(Hu et al. 2004; Seidell 2000; Wolf-Maier et al. 2004).”