"Overweight" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A status with BODY WEIGHT that is above certain standard of acceptable or desirable weight. In the scale of BODY MASS INDEX, overweight is defined as having a BMI of 25.0-29.9 kg/m2. Overweight may or may not be due to increases in body fat (ADIPOSE TISSUE), hence overweight does not equal "over fat".
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D050177
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MeSH Number(s) |
C23.888.144.699 E01.370.600.115.100.160.120.699 G07.100.100.160.120.699
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2009 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2016 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Overweight" by people in Profiles.
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Circadian Timing, Information processing and Metabolism (TIME) study: protocol of a longitudinal study of sleep duration, circadian alignment and cardiometabolic health among overweight adults. BMC Endocr Disord. 2023 Jan 31; 23(1):26.
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Racial, ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in SARS-CoV-2 infection amongst children. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol. 2022 05; 36(3):337-346.
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Body Weight Parameters are Related to Morbidity and Mortality After Liver Transplantation: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Transplantation. 2019 11; 103(11):2287-2303.
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Associations between Alternate Healthy Eating Index-2010, Body Composition, Osteoarthritis Severity, and Interleukin-6 in Older Overweight and Obese African American Females with Self-Reported Osteoarthritis. Nutrients. 2018 Dec 22; 11(1).
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Phase Relationship between DLMO and Sleep Onset and the Risk of Metabolic Disease among Normal Weight and Overweight/Obese Adults. J Biol Rhythms. 2018 02; 33(1):76-83.
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Preferred intervention strategies to improve dietary and physical activity behaviors among African-American mothers and daughters. Public Health Nurs. 2017 09; 34(5):461-471.
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The Impact of Weight Labels on Body Image, Internalized Weight Stigma, Affect, Perceived Health, and Intended Weight Loss Behaviors in Normal-Weight and Overweight College Women. Am J Health Promot. 2017 Nov; 31(6):484-490.
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BRIGHTEN Heart: Design and baseline characteristics of a randomized controlled trial for minority older adults with depression and cardiometabolic syndrome. Contemp Clin Trials. 2016 05; 48:99-109.
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Application of Latent Class Analysis to Identify Behavioral Patterns of Response to Behavioral Lifestyle Interventions in Overweight and Obese Adults. Int J Behav Med. 2015 Aug; 22(4):471-80.
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Weight gain, overweight and obesity in solid organ transplantation--a study protocol for a systematic literature review. Syst Rev. 2015 Jan 06; 4:2.