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Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016
BACKGROUND: Underweight, overweight, and obesity in childhood and adolescence are associated with adverse health consequences throughout the life-course. Our aim was to estimate worldwide trends in mean body-mass index (BMI) and...
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Heterogeneous contributions of change in population distribution of body mass index to change in obesity and underweight.
From 1985 to 2016, the prevalence of underweight decreased, and that of obesity and severe obesity increased, in most regions, with significant variation in the magnitude of these changes across regions. We investigated how much...
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Large meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies five loci for lean body mass.
M Carola Zillikens, Serkalem Demissie, Yi-Hsiang Hsu, Laura M Yerges-Armstrong, Wen-Chi Chou, Lisette Stolk, Gregory Livshits, Linda Broer, Toby Johnson, Daniel L Koller, Zoltán Kutalik, Jian'an Luan, Ida Malkin, Janina S Ried, Albert V Smith, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Liesbeth Vandenput, Jing Hua Zhao, Weihua Zhang, Ali Aghdassi, Kristina Åkesson, Najaf Amin, Leslie J Baier, Inês Barroso, David A Bennett, Lars Bertram, Rainer Biffar, Murielle Bochud, Michael Boehnke, Ingrid B Borecki, Aron S Buchman, Liisa Byberg, Harry Campbell, Natalia Campos Obanda, Jane A Cauley, Peggy M Cawthon, Henna Cederberg, Zhao Chen, Nam H Cho, Hyung Jin Choi, Melina Claussnitzer, Francis Collins, Steven R Cummings, Philip L De Jager, Ilja Demuth, Rosalie AM Dhonukshe-Rutten, Luda Diatchenko, Gudny Eiriksdottir, Anke W Enneman, Mike Erdos, Johan G Eriksson, Joel Eriksson, Karol Estrada, Daniel S Evans, Mary F Feitosa, Mao Fu, Melissa Garcia, Christian Gieger, Thomas Girke, Nicole L Glazer, Harald Grallert, Jagvir Grewal, Bok-Ghee Han, Robert L Hanson, Caroline Hayward, Albert Hofman, Eric P Hoffman, Georg Homuth, Wen-Chi Hsueh, Monica J Hubal, Alan Hubbard, Kim M Huffman, Lise B Husted, Thomas Illig, Erik Ingelsson, Till Ittermann, John-Olov Jansson, Joanne M Jordan, Antti Jula, Magnus Karlsson, Kay-Tee Khaw, Tuomas O Kilpeläinen, Norman Klopp, Jacqueline SL Kloth, Heikki A Koistinen, William E Kraus, Stephen Kritchevsky, Teemu Kuulasmaa, Johanna Kuusisto, Markku Laakso, Jari Lahti, Thomas Lang, Bente L Langdahl, Lenore J Launer, Jong-Young Lee, Markus M Lerch, Joshua R Lewis, Lars Lind, Cecilia Lindgren, Yongmei Liu, Tian Liu, Youfang Liu, Östen Ljunggren, Mattias Lorentzon, Robert N Luben, William Maixner, Fiona E McGuigan, Carolina Medina-Gomez, Thomas Meitinger, Håkan Melhus, Dan Mellström, Simon Melov, Karl Michaëlsson, Braxton D Mitchell, Andrew P Morris, Leif Mosekilde, Anne Newman, Carrie M Nielson, Jeffrey R O'Connell, Ben A Oostra, Eric S Orwoll, Aarno Palotie, Stephen CJ Parker, Munro Peacock, Markus Perola, Annette Peters, Ozren Polasek, Richard L Prince, Katri Räikkönen, Stuart H Ralston, Samuli Ripatti, John A Robbins, Jerome I Rotter, Igor Rudan, Veikko Salomaa, Suzanne Satterfield, Eric E Schadt, Sabine Schipf, Laura Scott, Joban Sehmi, Jian Shen, Chan Soo Shin, Gunnar Sigurdsson, Shad Smith, Nicole Soranzo, Alena Stančáková, Elisabeth Steinhagen-Thiessen, Elizabeth A Streeten, Unnur Styrkarsdottir, Karin MA Swart, Sian-Tsung Tan, Mark A Tarnopolsky, Patricia Thompson, Cynthia A Thomson, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Emmi Tikkanen, Gregory J Tranah, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Natasja M van Schoor, Arjun Verma, Peter Vollenweider, Henry Völzke, Jean Wactawski-Wende, Mark Walker, Michael N Weedon, Ryan Welch, H-Erich Wichmann, Elisabeth Widen, Frances MK Williams, James F Wilson, Nicole C Wright, Weijia Xie, Lei Yu, Yanhua Zhou, John C Chambers, Angela Döring, Cornelia M van Duijn, Michael J Econs, Vilmundur Gudnason, Jaspal S Kooner, Bruce M Psaty, Timothy D Spector, Kari Stefansson, Fernando Rivadeneira, André G Uitterlinden, Nicholas J Wareham, Vicky Ossowski, Dawn Waterworth, Ruth JF Loos, David Karasik, Tamara B Harris, Claes Ohlsson, Douglas P Kiel
Jan 17, 2018
Lean body mass, consisting mostly of skeletal muscle, is important for healthy aging. We performed a genome-wide association study for whole body (20 cohorts of European ancestry with n = 38,292) and appendicular (arms and legs)...
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