Impact of Overweight on the Risk of Developing Common Chronic Diseases During a 10-Year Period

Field, Alison E.; Coakley, Eugenie; Must, Aviva; Spadano, Jennifer L.; Laird, Nan M.; Dietz, William H.; Rimm, Eric B.; Colditz, Graham A.

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“…As expected from the previously published data on the impact of overweight on the development of diabetes [32] and on BMI in diabetic patients [33], BMI indices were found to be higher in the subjects with newly diagnosed DM and IFG than in those with normal FPG.…”

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Prevalence of diabetes mellitus in Croatia

Metelko

Pavlić-Renar

Poljičanin

et al. 2008

Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice

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Prevalence of diabetes mellitus in Croatia

Metelko

Pavlić-Renar

Poljičanin

et al. 2008

Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice

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“…A further potentially problematic component even if increasing obesity is accounted for is the shift within the obesity category observed in this study. As the risk for type 2 diabetes (compared to BMIp25) has been found to more than double when moving from moderate to morbid obesity, 21 the shift may result in an even greater increase than anticipated if considering obesity alone in the modeling.…”

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confidence: 97%

Shift in the composition of obesity in young adult men in Sweden over a third of a century

2007

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Objective: To assess whether the composition of the obese category (body mass index (BMI)X30) has changed during the last one-third of a century in young adult men. Design: Retrospective study of 1 580 913 men (18.3 ± 0.4 years) representing 82% of the Swedish male population at military conscription age between 1969 and 2005. Measured height and weight were used to define moderate and morbid obesity as BMI 30-34.9 and X35, respectively. Data on socio-economic position (SEP), place of residence (urban, semi-urban and rural), age and test center were also collected. Results: From the period 1969-1974 to 2000-2005, the prevalence of moderate obesity almost quintupled (0.8-3.8%; Po0.0001), while morbid obesity increased 10-fold (0.1-1.3%; Po0.0001). The composition of the obese category changed from 12.9 to 25.1% morbidly obese during the same time, corresponding to an annual growth in the odds of 2.8% (CI 95% 2.5-3.1%) per year within the obese category. Compared to 1969-1974, the odds ratios of obesity and morbid obesity, respectively, were 1.6 (1.6-1.7) and 1.9 (1.7-2.2) in 1980-1984, 2.8 (2.7-2.9) and 4.0 (3.5-4.5) in 1990-1994, and 6.0 (5.7-6.3) and 11.4 (10.1-12.9) in 2000-2005, after adjustment for SEP, urban/rural place of residence, age and test center. Extrapolation of the growth rate during the observation period resulted in an estimated 4% morbidly obese in 2020. Conclusion: Morbid obesity increased faster than moderate obesity during the last 35 years. As the health risks and costs of obesity-related morbidity increase disproportionately in the morbidly obese, it is important to assess morbid obesity in prevalence studies, and distinguish the morbidly from the moderately obese in cost analyses.

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“…Obese persons are more likely to suffer from diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, stroke, various types of cancer and many other diseases (Field et al, 2001, Flegal et al, 2005. As a consequence, obese persons do not only spend more time and money on health care (Finkelstein et al, 2005, OECD, 2010 but they also pass away earlier.…”

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A mass phenomenon: The social evolution of obesity

Strulik

2014

Journal of Health Economics

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Abstract. This paper proposes a theory for the social evolution of obesity. It considers a society, in which individuals experience utility from consumption of food and non-food, the state of their health, and the evaluation of their appearance by others. The theory explains why, ceteris paribus, poor persons are more prone to be severely overweight although eating is expensive and how obesity occurs as a social phenomenon such that body mass continues to rise long after the initial cause (e.g. a lower price of food) is gone. The paper investigates the determinants of a steady-state at which the median citizen is overweight and how an originally lean society arrives at such a steady-state. Extensions of the theory towards dietary choice and the possibility to exercise in order to loose weight demonstrate robustness of the basic mechanism and provide further interesting results.

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Impact of Overweight on the Risk of Developing Common Chronic Diseases During a 10-Year Period

Cited by 1,406 publications

References 34 publications

Prevalence of diabetes mellitus in Croatia

Prevalence of diabetes mellitus in Croatia

Shift in the composition of obesity in young adult men in Sweden over a third of a century

A mass phenomenon: The social evolution of obesity

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