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Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: A pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

By: Di Cesare M., Bentham J., Stevens G.A., Zhou B., Danaei G., Lu Y., Bixby H., Cowan M.J., Riley L.M., Hajifathalian K., Fortunato L., Taddei C., Bennett J.E., Ikeda N., Khang Y.-H., Kyobutungi C., Laxmaiah A., Li Y., Lin H.-H., Miranda J.J., Mostafa A., Turley M.L., Paciorek C.J., Gunter M., Ezzati M., Abdeen Z.A., Hamid Z.A., Abu-Rmeileh N.M., Acosta-Cazares B., Adams R., Aekplakorn W., Aguilar-Salinas C.A., Ahmadvand A., Ahrens W., Ali M.M., Alkerwi A., Alvarez-Pedrerol M., Aly E., Amouyel P., Amuzu A., Andersen L.B., Anderssen S.A., Andrade D.S., Anjana R.M., Aounallah-Skhiri H., Ariansen I., Aris T., Arlappa N., Arveiler D., Assah F.K., Avdicová M., Azizi F., Babu B.V., Balakrishna N., Bandosz P., Banegas J.R., Barbagallo C.M., Barceló A., Barkat A., Barros M.V., Bata I., Batieha A.M., Batista R.L., Baur L.A., Beaglehole R., Romdhane H.B., Benet M., Bernabe-Ortiz A., Bernotiene G., Bettiol H., Bhagyalaxmi A., Bharadwaj S., Bhargava S.K., Bhatti Z., Bhutta Z.A., Bi H., Bi Y., Bjerregaard P., Bjertness E., Bjertness M.B., Björkelund C., Blake M., Blokstra A., Bo S., Bobak M., Boddy L.M., Boehm B.O., Boeing H., Boissonnet C.P., Bongard V., Bovet P., Braeckman L., Bragt M.C.E., Brajkovich I., Branca F., Breckenkamp J., Brenner H., Brewster L.M., Brian G.R., Bruno G., Bueno-De-Mesquita H.B., Bugge A., Burns C., De León A.C., Cacciottolo J., Cama T., Cameron C., Camolas J., Can G., Cândido A.P.C., Capuano V., Cardoso V.C., Carvalho M.J., Casanueva F.F., Casas J.-P., Caserta C.A., Castetbon K., Chamukuttan S., Chan A.W., Chan Q., Chaturvedi H.K., Chaturvedi N., Chen C.-J., Chen F., Chen H., Chen S., Chen Z., Cheng C.-Y., Chetrit A., Chiolero A., Chiou S.-T., Chirita-Emandi A., Cho Y., Christensen K., Chudek J., Cifkova R., Claessens F., Clays E., Concin H., Cooper C., Cooper R., Coppinger T.C., Costanzo S., Cottel D., Cowell C., Craig C.L., Crujeiras A.B., D’Arrigo G., D’Orsi E., Dallongeville J., Damasceno A., Damsgaard C.T., Dankner R., Dauchet L., De Backer G., De Bacquer D., De Gaetano G., De Henauw S., De Smedt D., Deepa M., Deev A.D., Dehghan A., Delisle H., Delpeuch F., Dhana K., Di Castelnuovo A.F., Dias-Da-Costa J.S., Diaz A., Djalalinia S., Do H.T.P., Dobson A.J., Donfrancesco C., Döring A., Doua K., Drygas W., Egbagbe E.E., Eggertsen R., Ekelund U., El Ati J., Elliott P., Engle-Stone R., Erasmus R.T., Erem C., Eriksen L., De La Peña J.E., Evans A., Faeh D., Fall C.H., Farzadfar F., Felix-Redondo F.J., Ferguson T.S., Fernández-Bergés D., Ferrante D., Ferrari M., Ferreccio C., Ferrieres J., Finn J.D., Fischer K., Flores E.M., Föger B., Foo L.H., Forslund A.-S., Fortmann S.P., Fouad H.M., Francis D.K., Do Carmo Franco M., Franco O.H., Frontera G., Fuchs F.D., Fuchs S.C., Fujita Y., Furusawa T., Gaciong Z., Gafencu M., Gareta D., Garnett S.P., Gaspoz J.-M., Gasull M., Gates L., Geleijnse J.M., Ghasemian A., Giampaoli S., Gianfagna F., Giovannelli J., Giwercman A., Goldsmith R.A., Gross M.G., Rivas J.P.G., Gorbea M.B., Gottrand F., Graff-Iversen S., Grafnetter D., Grajda A., Grammatikopoulou M.G., Gregor R.D., Grodzicki T., Grøntved A., Gruden G., Grujic V., Gu D., Guan O.P., Gudnason V., Guerrero R., Guessous I., Guimaraes A.L., Gulliford M.C., Gunnlaugsdottir J., Guo X.H., Guo Y., Gupta P.C., Gureje O., Gurzkowska B., Gutierrez L., Gutzwiller F., Halkjær J., Hardy R., Kumar R.H., Hayes A.J., He J., Hendriks M.E., Cadena L.H., Heshmat R., Hihtaniemi I.T., Ho S.Y., Ho S.C., Hobbs M., Hofman A., Hormiga C.M., Horta B.L., Houti L., Htay T.T., Htet A.S., Htike M.M.T., Hu Y., Hussieni A.S., Huu C.N., Huybrechts I., Hwalla N., Iacoviello L., Iannone A.G., Ibrahim M.M., Ikram M.A., Irazola V.E., Islam M., Iwasaki M., Jackson R.T., Jacobs J.M., Jafar T., Jamil K.M., Jamrozik K., Jasienska G., Jiang C.Q., Joffres M., Johansson M., Jonas J.B., Jørgensen T., Joshi P., Juolevi A., Jurak G., Jureša V., Kaaks R., Kafatos A., Kalter-Leibovici O., Kapantais E., Kasaeian A., Katz J., Kaur P., Kavousi M., Keil U., Boker L.K., Kelishadi R., Kemper H.H.C.G., Kengne A.P., Kersting M., Key T., Khader Y.S., Khalili D., Khaw K.-T.H., Khouw I.M.S.L., Kiechl S., Killewo J., Kim J., Kiyohara Y., Klimont J., Kolle E., Kolsteren P., Korrovits P., Koskinen S., Kouda K., Koziel S., Kratzer W., Krokstad S., Kromhout D., Kruger H.S., Kula K., Kulaga Z., Kumar R.K., Kusuma Y.S., Kuulasmaa K., Laamiri F.Z., Laatikainen T., Lachat C., Laid Y., Lam T.H., Landrove O., Lanska V., Lappas G., Laugsand L.E., Le Nguyen Bao K., Le T.D., Leclercq C., Lee J., Lee J., Lehtimäki T., Rampal L., León-Munoz L.M., Lim W.-Y., Lima-Costa M.F., Lin X., Linneberg A., Lissner L., Litwin M., Liu J., Lorbeer R., Lotufo P.A., Lozano J.E., Luksiene D., Lundqvist A., Lunet N., Lytsy P., Ma G., Machi S., Maggi S., Magliano D.J., Makdisse M., Malekzadeh R., Malhotra R., Rao K.M., Manios Y., Mann J.I., Manzato E., Margozzini P., Markey O., Marques-Vidal P., Marrugat J., Martin-Prevel Y., Martorell R., Masoodi S.R., Matsha T.E., Mazur A., Mbanya J.C.N., McFarlane S.R., McGarvey S.T., McKee M., McLachlan S., McLean R.M., McNulty B.A., Md Yusof S., Mediene-Benchekor S., Meirhaeghe A., Meisinger C., Mendes L.L., Menezes A.M.B., Mensink G.B.M., Meshram I.I., Metspalu A., Mi J., Michaelsen K.F., Mikkel K., Miller J.C., Miquel J.F., Mišigoj-Duraković M., Mohamed M.K., Mohammad K., Mohammadifard N., Mohan V., Yusoff M.F.M., Molbo D., Møller N.C., Molnár D., Mondo C.K., Monterrubio E.A., Monyeki K.D.K., Moreira L.B., Morejon A., Moreno L.A., Morgan K., Mortensen E.L., Moschonis G., Mossakowska M., Mota J., Motlagh M.E., Motta J., Mu T.T., Muiesan M.L., Müller-Nurasyid M., Murphy N., Mursu J., Murtagh E.M., Musa K.I., Musil V., Nagel G., Nakamura H., Námešná J., Nang E.E.K., Nangia V.B., Nankap M., Narake S., Navarrete-Muñoz E.M., Nenko I., Neovius M., Nervi F., Neuhauser H.K., Nguyen N.D., Nguyen Q.N., Nieto-Martínez R.E., Ning G., Ninomiya T., Nishtar S., Noale M., Norat T., Noto D., Al Nsour M., O’Reilly D., Ochoa-Avilés A.M., Oh K., Olayan I.H., Olinto M.T.A., Oltarzewski M., Omar M.A., Onat A., Ordunez P., Ortiz A.P., Osler M., Osmond C., Ostojic S.M., Otero J.A., Overvad K., Paccaud F.M., Padez C., Pajak A., Palli D., Palloni A., Palmieri L., Panda-Jonas S., Panza F., Parnell W.R., Parsaeian M., Pednekar M.S., Peeters P.H., Peixoto S.V., Pereira A.C., Pérez C.M., Peters A., Peykari N., Pham S.T., Pigeot I., Pikhart H., Pilav A., Pilotto L., Pistelli F., Pitakaka F., Piwonska A., Piwonski J., Plans-Rubió P., Poh B.K., Porta M., Portegies M.L.P., Poulimeneas D., Pradeepa R., Prashant M., Price J.F., Puiu M., Punab M., Qasrawi R.F., Qorbani M., Bao T.Q., Radic I., Radisauskas R., Rahman M., Raitakari O., Raj M., Rao S.R., Ramachandran A., Ramke J., Ramos R., Rampal S., Rasmussen F., Redon J., Reganit P.F.M., Ribeiro R., Riboli E., Rigo F., De Wit T.F.R., Ritti-Dias R.M., Rivera J.A., Robinson S.M., Robitaille C., Rodríguez-Artalejo F., Del Cristo Rodriguez-Perez M., Rodríguez-Villamizar L.A., Rojas-Martinez R., Rojroongwasinkul N., Romaguera D., Ronkainen K., Rosengren A., Rouse I., Rubinstein A., Rühli F.J., Rui O., Ruiz-Betancourt B.S., Horimoto A.R.V.R., Rutkowski M., Sabanayagam C., Sachdev H.S., Saidi O., Salanave B., Martinez E.S., Salomaa V., Salonen J.T., Salvetti M., Sánchez-Abanto J., Sandjaja, Sans S., Santos D.A., Santos O., Dos Santos R.N., Santos R., Sardinha L.B., Sarrafzadegan N., Saum K.-U., Savva S.C., Scazufca M., Rosario A.S., Schargrodsky H., Schienkiewitz A., Schmidt I.M., Schneider I.J., Schultsz C., Schutte A.E., Sein A.A., Sen A., Senbanjo I.O., Sepanlou S.G., Shalnova S.A., Shaw J.E., Shibuya K., Shin Y., Shiri R., Siantar R., Sibai A.M., Silva A.M., Silva D.A.S., Simon M., Simons J., Simons L.A., Sjostrom M., Slowikowska-Hilczer J., Slusarczyk P., Smeeth L., Smith M.C., Snijder M.B., So H.-K., Sobngwi E., Söderberg S., Soekatri M.Y.E., Solfrizzi V., Sonestedt E., Sørensen T.I.A., Sorić M., Jérome C.S., Soumare A., Staessen J.A., Starc G., Stathopoulou M.G., Staub K., Stavreski B., Steene-Johannessen J., Stehle P., Stein A.D., Stergiou G.S., Stessman J., Stieber J., Stöckl D., Stocks T., Stokwiszewski J., Stratton G., Strufaldi M.W., Sun C.-A., Sundström J., Sung Y.-T., Sunyer J., Suriyawongpaisal P., Swinburn B.A., Sy R.G., Szponar L., Tai E.S., Tammesoo M.-L., Tamosiunas A., Tang L., Tang X., Tanser F., Tao Y., Tarawneh M., Tarp J., Tarqui-Mamani C.B., Taylor A., Tchibindat F., Thijs L., Thuesen B.H., Tjonneland A., Tolonen H.K., Tolstrup J.S., Topbas M., Topór-Madry R., Torrent M., Traissac P., Trichopoulou A., Trichopoulos D., Trinh O.T.H., Trivedi A., Tshepo L., Tulloch-Reid M.K., Tuomainen T.-P., Tuomilehto J., Tynelius P., Tzotzas T., Tzourio C., Ueda P., Ukoli F.A.M., Ulmer H., Unal B., Valdivia G., Vale S., Valvi D., Van Der Schouw Y.T., Van Herck K., Van Minh H., Van Valkengoed I.G.M., Vanderschueren D., Vanuzzo D., Vatten L., Vega T., Velasquez-Melendez G., Veronesi G., Monique Verschuren W.M., Viegi G., Viet L., Viikari-Juntura E., Vineis P., Vioque J., Virtanen J.K., Visvikis-Siest S., Viswanathan B., Vollenweider P., Voutilainen S., Vrijheid M., Wade A.N., Wagner A., Walton J., Mohamud W.N.W., Wang M.-D., Wang Q., Wang Y.X., Wannamethee S.G., Wareham N., Weerasekera D., Whincup P.H., Widhalm K., Widyahening I.S., Wiecek A., Wilks R.J., Willeit J., Wojtyniak B., Wong J.E., Wong T.Y., Woo J., Woodward M., Wu F.C., Wu J., Wu S.L., Xu H., Xu L., Yamborisut U., Yan W., Yang X., Yardim N., Ye X., Yiallouros P.K., Yoshihara A., You Q.S., Younger-Coleman N.O., Yusoff A.F., Zainuddin A.A., Zambon S., Zdrojewski T., Zeng Y., Zhao D., Zhao W., Zheng Y., Zhou M., Zhu D., Zimmermann E., Cisneros J.Z., NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC)
Published in: The Lancet
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background Underweight and severe and morbid obesity are associated with highly elevated risks of adverse health outcome (more…)

RNA Recombination Enhances Adaptability and Is Required for Virus Spread and Virulence

By: Xiao Y., Rouzine I.M., Bianco S., Acevedo A., Goldstein E.F., Farkov M., Brodsky L., Andino R.
Published in: Cell Host and Microbe
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Mutation and recombination are central processes driving microbial evolution. A high mutation rate fuels adaptation but (more…)

Different effects of long-term exposures to SO2 and NO2 air pollutants on asthma severity in young adults

By: Greenberg N., Carel R.S., Derazne E., Bibi H., Shpriz M., Tzur D., Portnov B.A.
Published in: Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health – Part A: Current Issues
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Numerous studies demonstrated that exposure to ambient air pollutants contributes to severity and frequency of asthma ex (more…)

Why do parents who usually vaccinate their children hesitate or refuse? General good vs. individual risk

By: Gesser-Edelsburg A., Shir-Raz Y., Green M.S.
Published in: Journal of Risk Research
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: This study examines vaccination hesitancy or refusal following the 2013 polio outbreak in Israel, based on two theoretic (more…)

Seriously clowning: Medical clowning interaction with children undergoing invasive examinations in hospitals

By: Tener D., Ofir S., Lev-Wiesel R., Franco N.L., On A.
Published in: Social Work in Health Care
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: This qualitative study examined the subjective experience of children undergoing an invasive examination in the hospital (more…)

Health aspects of climate change in cities with Mediterranean climate, and local adaptation plans

By: Paz S., Negev M., Clermont A., Green M.S.
Published in: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Cities with a Mediterranean-type climate (Med-cities) are particularly susceptible to health risks from climate change s (more…)

Antiatherosclerotic effects of licorice extract supplementation on hypercholesterolemic patients: Decreased CIMT, reduced plasma lipid levels, and decreased blood pressure

By: Fogelman Y., Gaitini D., Carmeli E.
Published in: Food and Nutrition Research
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background: Ethanolic extract of licorice root has been shown to reduce low-density lipoprotein (LDL) oxidation in ather (more…)

The immediate effect of dry needling on multifidus muscles’ function in healthy individuals

By: Dar G., Hicks G.E.
Published in: Journal of Back and Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: BACKGROUND: Dry needling of muscles is mainly used for the management of pain in musculoskeletal disorders. Yet, the ass (more…)

A novel approach to PTSD modeling in rats reveals alternating patterns of limbic activity in different types of stress reaction

By: Ritov G., Boltyansky B., Richter-Levin G.
Published in: Molecular Psychiatry
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Natural Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Human reactions to trauma exposure are extremely diverse, with some individuals exhibiting only time-limited distress an (more…)

Men’s vulnerability-women’s resilience: From widowhood to late-life repartnering

By: Koren C.
Published in: International Psychogeriatrics
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background: The ongoing increase in life expectancy resulting in people living longer after the death of a lifelong spou (more…)

Climate change adaptation in the reorganized UK public health system: A view from local government

By: Negev M., Kovats R.S.
Published in: Public Health
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
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Hearing outcome of infants with Congenital cytomegalovirus and hearing impairment

By: Bilavsky E., Shahar-Nissan K., Pardo J., Attias J., Amir J.
Published in: Archives of Disease in Childhood
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background: Congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) is the most common non-genetic cause of childhood sensorineural hearing lo (more…)

Does artificial light-at-night exposure contribute to the worldwide obesity pandemic?

By: Rybnikova N.A., Haim A., Portnov B.A.
Published in: International Journal of Obesity
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background:Worldwide overweight and obesity rates are on the rise, with about 1 900 billion adults being defined as over (more…)

Family involvement in medical decision-making: Perceptions of nursing and psychology students

By: Itzhaki M., Hildesheimer G., Barnoy S., Katz M.
Published in: Nurse Education Today
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background: Family members often rely on health care professionals to guide and support them through the decision-making (more…)

Body shape, adiposity index, and mortality in postmenopausal women: Findings from the Women’s Health Initiative

By: Thomson C.A., Garcia D.O., Wertheim B.C., Hingle M.D., Bea J.W., Zaslavsky O., Caire-Juvera G., Rohan T., Vitolins M.Z., Thompson P.A., Lewis C.E.
Published in: Obesity
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Objective Studies evaluating the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and mortality demonstrate a U-shaped associa (more…)

Maladaptive daydreaming: Evidence for an under-researched mental health disorder

By: Bigelsen J., Lehrfeld J.M., Jopp D.S., Somer E.
Published in: Consciousness and Cognition
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: This study explores the recently described phenomenon of Maladaptive Daydreaming (MD) and attempts to enhance the unders (more…)

Communication and integration: a qualitative analysis of perspectives among Middle Eastern oncology healthcare professionals on the integration of complementary medicine in supportive cancer care

By: Ben-Arye E., Popper-Giveon A., Samuels N., Mutafoglu K., Schiff E., Omran S., Charalambous H., Dweikat T., Ghrayeb I., Turker I., Hassan A., Hassan E., Nimri O., Kebudi R., Silbermann M.
Published in: Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Context and objectives: The use of complementary and traditional medicine (CTM) in Middle Eastern countries is widesprea (more…)

Response to The relationship between serum uric acid levels and NAFLD

By: Zelber-Sagi S., Ben-Assuli O., Rabinowich L., Shalev V., Shibolet O., Chodick G.
Published in: Liver International
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description:

Building Concern Free of Force in the Treatment of Adult Survivors of Childhood Incest

By: Gil S.
Published in: British Journal of Psychotherapy
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Incest brutally extinguishes the instinctive concern of a parent towards his/her child, transforming the relationship in (more…)

Expanded genetic screening panel for the Ashkenazi Jewish population

By: Baskovich B., Hiraki S., Upadhyay K., Meyer P., Carmi S., Barzilai N., Darvasi A., Ozelius L., Peter I., Cho J.H., Atzmon G., Clark L., Yu J., Lencz T., Pe’Er I., Ostrer H., Oddoux C.
Published in: Genetics in Medicine
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Natural Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Purpose:Carrier screening programs that identify the presence of known mutations have been effective for reducing the in (more…)