[PDF] Top 20 The direct and indirect costs of both overweight and obesity: a systematic review

... This review attempted to examine a more ho- mogenous group of studies which investigated both the direct and indirect costs of overweight and obesity and if comparability ... See full document

... The indirect costs are related to morbidity and mortality ...Morbidity costs are defined as the value of income lost from decreased productivity, absenteeism, restricted activity, and hospital ... See full document

... annual direct healthcare cost of smoking is found to be attributable to about 4 % of the national health expendi- tures ...of costs of smoking, often two types of costs are brought up in the ... See full document

... Background: Overweight and obesity have become a major public health concern in recent decades, particularly in patients with chronic health conditions like congenital heart disease ...This ... See full document

... Maternal overweight, for example, can have metabolic consequences, through nutrition in pregnancy, on the development of the foetus, on birth weight and on infant growth in the breastfed ...Maternal ... See full document

... Childhood obesity is associated with health problems in childhood and an increased risk of obesity along with associated health risks in adulthood, particularly in children who have an obese ...be ... See full document

... Childhood obesity is associated with health problems in childhood and an increased risk of obesity along with associated health risks in adulthood, particularly in children who have an obese ...be ... See full document

... Childhood obesity is associated with health problems in childhood and an increased risk of obesity along with associated health risks in adulthood, particularly in children who have an obese ...be ... See full document

... of overweight and obesity and early adiposity ...enhance both growth during the first two years of life and adipogenic activity and adipocyte ...of obesity in later ... See full document

... of Obesity Facts aimed to determine the impact of socioeconomic inequalities on the risk of childhood obesity in the UK while focusing on regional ...a direct link between childhood obesity ... See full document

... this systematic review was that the prevalence of overweight and obesity from different studies was measured at different time ...of overweight and obesity and there is an ... See full document

... child obesity interventions, this review highlighted the importance of ...rates. Obesity interventions should involve the whole family in certain elements, whilst allowing adolescents to create bonds ... See full document

... this systematic review indicates that both probiotics and synbiotics, specifically certain strains of Lactobacillus gasseri, ...in overweight and obese ... See full document

... Take home message Despite the lack of clear trend regarding the agreement of PA measures in older adults, the findings provide useful information about research needs in this import- ant field. Consistent with papers on ... See full document

... This review suggests that children born from mothers with normal maternal pre-pregnancy BMI have lower fat mass and body fat percent than those born from overweight or obese moth- ers ... See full document

... childhood obesity prevention efforts, in both health and economic ...lifetime costs of an obese child relative to a normal weight ...successful obesity pre- vention and treatment ...to ... See full document

... in- direct costs in UC, heterogeneity of reporting data was a key limitation in analyzing and quantifying the impact of indirect costs in ...recent review by Kawalec et ... See full document

... Summary Obesity is a global epidemic with major healthcare implications and ...atic review of this rapidly growing area of research was ...in overweight and obese adults with any other ... See full document

... Prospective and cross-sectional studies: The primary outcomes that will be assessed include BMI in adults, BMI z-score in children and weight category for both adults and children. For continuous outcomes (e.g. ... See full document

... this systematic literature review will condense and compare, for the first time, the current state of evidence on weight gain, overweight and obesity, their risk factors and correlates, as ... See full document