"Overweight" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A status with BODY WEIGHT that is above certain standard of acceptable or desirable weight. In the scale of BODY MASS INDEX, overweight is defined as having a BMI of 25.0-29.9 kg/m2. Overweight may or may not be due to increases in body fat (ADIPOSE TISSUE), hence overweight does not equal "over fat".
| Descriptor ID |
D050177
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C23.888.144.699 E01.370.600.115.100.160.120.699 G07.100.100.160.120.699
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Overweight" by people in Profiles.
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Association Between Obesity and Circulating Tumor Cells in Early Breast Cancer Patients. Clin Breast Cancer. 2023 08; 23(6):e345-e353.
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Epigenome-wide association study of body mass index, and the adverse outcomes of adiposity. Nature. 2017 01 05; 541(7635):81-86.
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Metabolic flexibility and oxidative capacity independently associate with insulin sensitivity in individuals with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes. Diabetologia. 2016 10; 59(10):2203-7.
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Postprandial plasma adiponectin decreases after glucose and high fat meal and is independently associated with postprandial triacylglycerols but not with -- 11388 promoter polymorphism. Br J Nutr. 2008 Jan; 99(1):76-82.
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