Sentence examples for identified obesity from inspiring English sources

Many YAMs identified obesity as an issue for society, acknowledged the obese population was increasing, and identified that being overweight or obese was associated with a number of health related implications.

In the nineteen-fifties, the American Medical Association identified obesity as the country's No. 1 health problem, and the diet industry exploded.

The American Association of Advertising Agencies, among other groups, has identified obesity and food marketing as the next hot topic in advertising.

By 1952, the American Heart Association had already identified obesity as a cardiac risk factor that can be lessened with exercise and a proper diet.

The risk factors for hiatal hernia, however, are speculative; a few reports have identified obesity [22] and pregnancy [23] as risk factors.

A number of studies identified obesity in children and adolescents as a risk factor for asthma, more severe asthma, poor asthma control, frequent exacerbations, and asthma-related hospitalizations [17,25,26,32-34].

Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identified obesity-related genetic variants.

Because FTO was the first identified obesity-susceptibility locus, many replication efforts in non-European ancestry populations have been conducted.

Since the first GWAS discoveries, numerous studies have examined whether the identified obesity-susceptibility loci are transferable across populations of other ancestry.

Of all currently identified obesity-susceptibility loci, the FTO locus has the most pronounced effect on BMI and obesity risk, at least in individuals of European descent.

Large-scale GWAS meta-analyses will be needed to establish more convincingly whether the identified obesity-susceptibility loci are specific to these ancestries or whether they are shared with other ancestries.