Prevalence and trends in obesity among US adults, 1999-2008.

By K. Flegal, M. Carroll, Cynthia L Ogden, L. Curtin. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2010

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Subfields: Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Surgery

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In Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism

1. M. Carroll
2. K. Flegal
3. Cynthia L Ogden
4. B. Kit
5. E. Finkelstein
6. A. Chawla
7. A. Jemal
8. R. Norman

In Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

1. M. Carroll
2. K. Flegal
3. Cynthia L Ogden
4. B. Kit
5. R. Siegel
6. A. Jemal
7. E. Finkelstein
8. W. Garvey

In Surgery

1. M. Carroll
2. K. Flegal
3. Cynthia L Ogden
4. B. Kit
5. E. Finkelstein
6. A. Jemal
7. Edgar P. Simard
8. Brandon H Hidaka

Citations in the corpus

• The levelling off of the obesity epidemic since the year 1999 – a review of evidence and perspectives (2010, background): “One large and representative study from the USA indicated that within the American population, there are ethnic differences in the changes in prevalence over time (54).”
• Hepatocellular carcinoma: a global view (2010, background): “Obesity, a major risk factor for NASH, has increased in the USA; contemporary survey data suggest that one-third of US adults are obese”
• Reward, dopamine and the control of food intake: implications for obesity (2010, neutral): “diabetes, heart disease, fatty liver and some cancers) [2].”
• Prevalence of obesity in the United States, 2009-2010. (2012, background): “More recently there appears to have been a slowing of the rate of increase or even a leveling off (4,5).”
• Pandemic 2009 influenza A(H1N1) virus illness among pregnant women in the United States. (2010, background): “Among Hospitalized Pregnant Women (n = 509) Hospital length of stay, d Median (range) 3 (1-73)”
• Cancers with increasing incidence trends in the United States: 1999 through 2008 (2012, background): “While the prevalence of adult obesity is higher among blacks compared with whites, the isolated increases observed among whites suggests the presence of other factors resulting in increasing pancreatic cancer rates among white men and women.(28) During 2004 through 2008, pancreatic cancer incidence ”
• Cancer statistics for Hispanics/Latinos, 2012 (2012, background): “1%).(62) A prospective analysis of racial/ ethnic differences in the association between diabetes and CRC in the Multiethnic Cohort found Hispanics to have the highest proportion of diabetics (21.”