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As expected, overweight adolescents evidenced higher body weight, BMI, waist circumference, and lower high-density lipoprotein.
As expected, overweight parents were more likely to have overweight children than were normal weight parents (χ = 21.37, p < 0.001).
As expected, overweight and obese women were more likely to have maternal metabolic syndrome-like obstetrical complications, as described by other literature [ 28, 41, 42].
As expected, overweight girls were more likely to have experienced pubertal onset at younger ages compared to their non-overweight peers.
As expected, overweight subjects had higher diastolic blood pressure (DBP), plasma insulin, insulin resistance index by homeostasis model assessment (HOMA-R), serum triglycerides, uric acid levels and lower high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) levels than the lean subjects.
As might be expected, overweight and obese patients were more often mechanically ventilated, treated with insulin, and more likely to develop wound and skin infections as well as pulmonary embolism (P < 0.001 for each).
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Considering the large difference in overweight prevalence between ethnic groups, it is expected that overweight preventive behaviours and related perceptions differ between these groups.
"I don't think he expected an overweight woman on oxygen to attack him.
"We expected the overweight dog to do anything to get food, but in this test, we saw the opposite.
We further expected that overweight adolescents would experience more parental teasing and encouragement to control weight and shape.
5. Based on previous studies we further expected that overweight adolescents would experience more parental teasing as well as encouragement to control weight and shape.
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