Sentence examples for be explained by obesity from inspiring English sources

Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) and Pickwick syndrome [ 1], both of which have been previously described in Dercum's disease, can be explained by obesity, as 50% of otherwise healthy obese women with BMI >40 have OSA and more than 29% of severely obese patients have nocturnal hypoventilation [ 20].

Therefore, the associations between a farming environment during infancy and lung function in adulthood are unlikely to be explained by obesity.

A recent study has also confirmed that a large proportion of the association between low socio-economic status and CKD can also be explained by obesity [ 115].

These results may in part be explained by obesity or weight gain, and we could not exclude the possibility that napping was a marker of other health conditions that increase the risk of diabetes.

However, there was an opportunity to include a control group of healthy obese subjects, which means that the hypothesis that signs of depression in Dercum's disease could be explained by obesity alone can be excluded.

The elevated MADRS scores in the Dercum patients in this study cannot be explained by obesity alone, as the distribution of the Dercum subjects' scores was different to that of the weight-matched control patients, and there was a statistical difference for the total score between the two groups (Table  2).

Including these variables in the analysis was an attempt to determine the extent to which potential associations between obesity and health care utilization could be explained by obesity-related illness.

This difference was explained by obesity, lifestyle and social status.

The rapidly growing worldwide epidemic of type 2 diabetes has been explained by obesity and the sedentary lifestyle of humans in modernity.

More than a fifth of the weight differences between people can be explained by common "obesity genes", according to research that confirms some people are naturally at greater risk of becoming overweight.

This makes it likely that a portion of the greater insulin resistance observed in South Asians can be explained by "hidden" obesity, i.e., excess body fat content not seen with standard BMI or waist circumference measurements.