Complex and controversial causes for the ‘obesity’ epidemic

Yach, Derek; Marks, Amy Seidel

doi:10.1057/palgrave.jmm.5040174

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“…The pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 is highlighting many other health-care problems worldwide, many of which have been under debate for decades. Obesity is another pandemic that has been growing relentlessly but has also been underestimated and controversial in many aspects, from the economic, to the socio-cultural and health-care points of view 6,7 . Each country has faced particular issues regarding the management of COVID-19, given their own characteristics and resources, and Latin America has several problems that undermine the readiness of the countries to face the virus 8 .…”

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The tale of two pandemics: High prevalence of severe obesity among patients with suspected COVID-19

Albarrán-Sánchez¹,

Anda-Garay²,

Guizar³

et al. 2020

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Background: Obesity is frequent in Mexico, but its importance for COVID-19 is still under debate. We aimed to describe its frequency in patients with severe COVID-19 in a referral hospital. Materials and methods: 167 patients hospitalized for suspicious or confirmed COVID-19, 66.7% male with a median age of 54 (interquartile range 43-63) were classified according to BMI and evaluated for comorbidities, coronavirus-2 polymerase chain reaction test results, and reason for discharge. Results: 75.3% of the patients were overweight or obese and 7.8% had grade III obesity. Increasing BMI related to higher probabilities of hyperglycemia (fasting glucose > 100 mg/dL, p = 0.044), but other comorbidities were similar among groups. The mortality rate among patients with Grade I obesity was 11%, whereas 33% of patients with either underweight or Grade III obesity died, depicting a U-shaped mortality curve. Conclusions: Obesity and its comorbidities are common in hospitalized patients in Mexico. Special efforts must be made to detect them, and further interventions to control the obesity pandemic will also be necessary to improve long-term results.

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The tale of two pandemics: High prevalence of severe obesity among patients with suspected COVID-19

Albarrán-Sánchez¹,

Anda-Garay²,

Guizar³

et al. 2020

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“…A Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation report showed that television watching is associated with adult obesity while television advertisements did have an impact on childhood obesity levels (Yach, 2004). Several studies indicate that there is a correlation between the amount of television viewing and the prevalence of obesity.…”

Section: The Influence Of Sedentary Life Style and Unhealthy Diet On mentioning

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“…This research focuses directly on the behavioral and lifestyle factors related to weight gain in combination with socioeconomic status in the adult period, which includes decreased physical activity and unbalanced dietary intake. Even though there have been studies that blame SES (Goodman, Slap, & Huang, 2003), high fat diets (Racette, Deusinger, Strube, Highstein, & Deusinger, 2005;Saba, Vassallo, & Turrini, 2000), physical inactivity (Caspersen, Pereira, & Curran, 2000;MMWR, 2004), or media exposure (Dietz & Gortmaker, 1985;Yach, 2004) on gaining weight respectively, few studies have investigated the combined contributions of main factors on gaining weight of US adults all at once. Moreover, this study contributes to the literature because it uses the national representative sample to reaffirm the relationships between main contributing factors of gaining weight and corresponding measure of body mass index.…”

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Gaining Weight: How Media Exposure, Socioeconomic Status, Sedentary Lifestyle and Dietary Habits Work Together - A Secondary Analysis of a Nationally Representative Study

Jung¹

2008

TOCOMMJ

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Obesity is a complex phenomenon without a single cause that needs comprehensive understanding and integrated intervention. However, few researches have considered the media exposure, SES, lifestyle factors and their contributions to the national problem of overweight and obesity comprehensively. To study the determinants of adults being overweight or obese, a secondary analysis with national representative sample (ABC News/Time Magazine Obesity Poll) was performed. Respondents were asked to rate their media exposures, behaviors of healthy diets and physical activities in their lives. The research results reaffirmed that sedentary lifestyle (e.g., hours of watching television and physical inactivity) in combination with dietary behavior of eating fat condensed food (e.g., frequent visits of fast food restaurant) have increased probabilities to be overweight and obese.

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Social marketing campaigns aimed at preventing and controlling obesity: A review and recommendations

Cismaru

Lavack

2007

Int Rev on Public Marketing

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Complex and controversial causes for the ‘obesity’ epidemic

Cited by 4 publications

References 5 publications

The tale of two pandemics: High prevalence of severe obesity among patients with suspected COVID-19

The tale of two pandemics: High prevalence of severe obesity among patients with suspected COVID-19

Gaining Weight: How Media Exposure, Socioeconomic Status, Sedentary Lifestyle and Dietary Habits Work Together - A Secondary Analysis of a Nationally Representative Study

Social marketing campaigns aimed at preventing and controlling obesity: A review and recommendations

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