Sentence examples for identifying obesity from inspiring English sources

"It says, 'Look in the mirror because you're the one to blame.' " Opponents said the legislation was unnecessary and irresponsible in light of this week's government report identifying obesity as a condition fast catching up to tobacco as the No. 1 preventable cause of death in the United States.

"The B.M.I. tables are excellent for identifying obesity and body fat in large populations, but they are far less reliable for determining fatness in individuals," explained Dr. Carl Lavie, a cardiologist at the Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute in New Orleans.

Genome-wide association study (GWAS) has been successful in identifying obesity risk genes by single-variant association analysis.

Although GWAs have been successful in identifying obesity loci, these only explain a small fraction of the interindividual variation, so that additional genetic factors remain to be detected.

The candidate gene approach, where promising genes are investigated on the basis of etiological understanding of disease, has not been very successful in identifying obesity susceptibility genes.

For identifying obesity as a risk factor for severe complications of influenza A(H1N1) virus infection, medical record review and additional efforts to contact hospitals were needed to obtain the height and weight of the patients.

In summary, the current study proposes the first age and height corrected blood pressure percentiles for Chinese children and adolescents aged 7 17 years with potential for more accurate blood pressure evaluation for children with extreme height, and in identifying obesity-related high blood pressure.

These finding suggest that administrative databases could not be used for obesity surveillance due to under-reporting but could potentially be used to identify obesity for forming a cohort of obese subjects for follow-up studies.

This discrepancy may be attributable to those with a BMI exceeding 30 either not considering themselves to be obese or not wanting to identify obesity as a health condition that they have.

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.

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