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Mechanisms, Pathophysiology, and Management of Obesity by Heymsfield, Steven B, Wadden, Thomas A

“…Obesity is prevalent in the U.S. population and contributes significantly to morbidity and mortality. Treatments include behavioral therapy, pharmacotherapy,…”
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Advances in body composition: a 100-year journey by Heymsfield, Steven B

“…Knowledge of human body composition at the dawn of the twentieth century was based largely on cadaver studies and chemical analyses of isolated organs and…”
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Advanced body composition assessment: from body mass index to body composition profiling by Borga, Magnus, West, Janne, Bell, Jimmy D, Harvey, Nicholas C, Romu, Thobias, Heymsfield, Steven B, Dahlqvist Leinhard, Olof

“…This paper gives a brief overview of common non-invasive techniques for body composition analysis and a more in-depth review of a body composition assessment…”
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Dual energy X-Ray absorptiometry body composition reference values from NHANES by Kelly, Thomas L, Wilson, Kevin E, Heymsfield, Steven B

“…In 2008 the National Center for Health Statistics released a dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) whole body dataset from the NHANES population-based sample…”
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Effects of COVID‐19 Lockdown on Lifestyle Behaviors in Children with Obesity Living in Verona, Italy: A Longitudinal Study by Pietrobelli, Angelo, Pecoraro, Luca, Ferruzzi, Alessandro, Heo, Moonseong, Faith, Myles, Zoller, Thomas, Antoniazzi, Franco, Piacentini, Giorgio, Fearnbach, S. Nicole, Heymsfield, Steven B.

“…Objective The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that youths with obesity, when removed from structured school activities and confined to their homes…”
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Obesity: Pathophysiology and Management by Gadde, Kishore M, Martin, Corby K, Berthoud, Hans-Rudolf, Heymsfield, Steven B

“…Obesity continues to be among the top health concerns across the globe. Despite our failure to contain the high prevalence of obesity, we now have a better…”
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Calf circumference: cutoff values from the NHANES 1999–2006 by Gonzalez, Maria Cristina, Mehrnezhad, Ali, Razaviarab, Nariman, Barbosa-Silva, Thiago G, Heymsfield, Steven B

“…Calf circumference (CC) is used in geriatric studies as a simple and practical skeletal muscle (SM) marker for diagnosing low SM and sarcopenia. Currently…”
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Obesity as a Disease: The Obesity Society 2018 Position Statement by Jastreboff, Ania M., Kotz, Catherine M., Kahan, Scott, Kelly, Aaron S., Heymsfield, Steven B.

“…The emerging obesity epidemic and accompanying health consequences led The Obesity Society (TOS) in 2008 to publish a position paper defining obesity as a…”
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Dietary Supplements for Weight Loss by Heymsfield, Steven B.

“…The Federal Drug Administration has approved, following rigorous testing, 6 pharmacologic agents and one drug in device form for the management of overweight…”
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Bioelectrical impedance analysis for diagnosing sarcopenia and cachexia: what are we really estimating? by Gonzalez, Maria Cristina, Heymsfield, Steven B.

“…As reference methods are not available for identifying low skeletal muscle mass in clinical practice, the European Group on Sarcopenia in Older People the…”
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Phase angle and its determinants in healthy subjects: influence of body composition by Gonzalez, Maria Cristina, Barbosa-Silva, Thiago G, Bielemann, Renata M, Gallagher, Dympna, Heymsfield, Steven B

“…The phase angle (PA) has been used as a prognostic marker in several clinical situations. Nevertheless, its biological meaning is not completely understood. We…”
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Skeletal muscle mass and quality: evolution of modern measurement concepts in the context of sarcopenia by Heymsfield, Steven B., Gonzalez, M. Cristina, Lu, Jianhua, Jia, Guang, Zheng, Jolene

“…The first reports of accurate skeletal muscle mass measurement in human subjects appeared at about the same time as introduction of the sarcopenia concept in…”
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Lean Tissue Imaging: A New Era for Nutritional Assessment and Intervention by Prado, Carla M. M., Heymsfield, Steven B.

“…Body composition refers to the amount of fat and lean tissues in our body; it is a science that looks beyond a unit of body weight, accounting for the…”
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Effects of Time-Restricted Eating on Weight Loss and Other Metabolic Parameters in Women and Men With Overweight and Obesity: The TREAT Randomized Clinical Trial by Lowe, Dylan A, Wu, Nancy, Rohdin-Bibby, Linnea, Moore, A Holliston, Kelly, Nisa, Liu, Yong En, Philip, Errol, Vittinghoff, Eric, Heymsfield, Steven B, Olgin, Jeffrey E, Shepherd, John A, Weiss, Ethan J

“…The efficacy and safety of time-restricted eating have not been explored in large randomized clinical trials. To determine the effect of 16:8-hour…”
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On the Definition of Sarcopenia in the Presence of Aging and Obesity—Initial Results from UK Biobank by Linge, Jennifer, Heymsfield, Steven B, Dahlqvist Leinhard, Olof

“…Abstract Background Current consensus is to combine a functional measure with muscle quantity to assess/confirm sarcopenia. However, the proper body size…”
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Obesity paradox in cancer: new insights provided by body composition by Gonzalez, Maria Cristina, Pastore, Carla A, Orlandi, Silvana P, Heymsfield, Steven B

“…Background: Obesity, defined by body mass index (BMI), appears to have a paradoxical protective effect in several chronic diseases.Objective: We investigated…”
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Body composition by DXA by Shepherd, John A, Ng, Bennett K, Sommer, Markus J, Heymsfield, Steven B

“…Abstract Body composition measurements from DXA have been available since DXA technology was developed 30 years ago, but are historically underutilized…”
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Modeling health risks using neural network ensembles by Smith, Brandon M, Criminisi, Antonio, Sorek, Noam, Harari, Yaar, Sood, Neeraj, Heymsfield, Steven B

“…This study aims to demonstrate that demographics combined with biometrics can be used to predict obesity related chronic disease risk and produce a health risk…”
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Guidance on Energy and Macronutrients across the Life Span by Heymsfield, Steven B., Shapses, Sue A.

“…Poor nutrition is a major risk factor for disease. In this first review in a new series on nutrition, the authors provide an overview of nutritional guidance,…”
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Energy expenditure—body size associations: molecular coordination by Heymsfield, Steven B.

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