The fundamental drivers of the obesity epidemicW P T James
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, International Obesity TaskForce, IASO, London
Obes Rev 9:6-13. 2008
..China could therefore lead the way: if it follows western approaches, the health and economic burden will become unsustainable...
Will feeding mothers prevent the Asian metabolic syndrome epidemic?W Philip T James
Asia Pac J Clin Nutr 11:S516-23. 2002
..Essential fatty acids and fat soluble vitamins are important, but we need early interventions and monitoring systems to justify coherent policies...
- Summary of the 24(th) Marabou Symposium: Nutrition and the human microbiome
W Philip T James
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and International Obesity Task, London, UK
Nutr Rev 70:S87-94. 2012
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Differential changes in serum uric acid concentrations in sibutramine promoted weight loss in diabetes: results from four weeks of the lead-in period of the SCOUT trialCharlotte Andersson
Department of Cardiology, Gentofte University Hospital, Hellerup, Denmark
Nutr Metab (Lond) 6:42. 2009
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- The weight lowering effect of sibutramine and its impact on serum lipids in cardiovascular high risk patients with and without type 2 diabetes mellitus - an analysis from the SCOUT lead-in period
Peter Weeke
Department of Cardiology, Gentofte Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
BMC Endocr Disord 10:3. 2010
..We examined whether blood lipid changes with short term administration of the weight lowering drug, sibutramine and lifestyle modification in obese and overweight high-risk patients was associated with T2D status at screening...
- WHO recognition of the global obesity epidemic
W P T James
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, International Obesity TaskForce, London, UK
Int J Obes (Lond) 32:S120-6. 2008
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- Marabou 2005: nutrition and human development
Philip James
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom
Nutr Rev 64:S1-11; discussion S72-91. 2006
..The nutrition field is therefore challenged not only in terms of science, but also in new dimensions of public health of immense economic significance...
- The policy challenge of coexisting undernutrition and nutrition-related chronic diseases
W Philip T James
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the International Obesity Task Force, 231 North Gower Street, London NWI 2NS, UK
Matern Child Nutr 1:197-203. 2005
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- 22 Marabou Symposium: the changing faces of vitamin D
W Philip T James
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Public Health Policy Group and The International Obesity TaskForce, London, United Kingdom
Nutr Rev 66:S213-7. 2008
..Assessing the breadth of the current approaches was the basis of the 22(nd) Marabou Symposium that took place in Stockholm in June 2007...
- Obesity and the metabolic syndrome: the stress on society
W P T James
International Obesity TaskForce, London, United Kingdom
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1083:1-10. 2006
..This therefore presents a major challenge in both research and public policy terms...
- 22nd Marabou Symposium: the changing faces of vitamin D
W Philip T James
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Director of the Public Health Policy Group and Chairman of The International Obesity TaskForce, London, United Kingdom
Nutr Rev 66:286-90. 2008
..Assessing the breadth of the current approaches was the basis of the 22(nd) Marabou Symposium that took place in Stockholm in June 2007. The complete proceedings will be presented in this journal as a supplement to an upcoming issue...
- The epidemiology of obesity: the size of the problem
W P T James
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, International Obesity TaskForce, London, UK
J Intern Med 263:336-52. 2008
..Counteracting this requires unusual policy initiatives...
- Achieving weight-loss maintenance
W P James
Public Health Policy Group, International Obesity Task Force, 231 North Gower Street, London, England
Postgrad Med 109:19-28. 2001
..Additional evidence suggests a reduced cardiovascular load as a result of this new management system, which should be seen as the beginning of a new era in our approach to tackling the hazards of overweight and obesity long term...
- BMI screening and surveillance: an international perspective
William Philip Trehearne James
Department of Nutrition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
Pediatrics 124:S42-9. 2009
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- Effect of sibutramine on weight maintenance after weight loss: a randomised trial. STORM Study Group. Sibutramine Trial of Obesity Reduction and Maintenance
W P James
Rowett Research Institute, Aberdeen, UK
Lancet 356:2119-25. 2000
..We did a randomised, double-blind trial to assess the usefulness of sibutramine in maintaining substantial weight loss over 2 years...
- The worldwide obesity epidemic
P T James
International Obesity Task Force, London, United Kingdom
Obes Res 9:228S-233S. 2001
..Waist measurements in nationally representative studies are scarce but will now be needed to estimate the full impact of the worldwide obesity epidemic...
- The role of sibutramine in weight management--towards a blueprint for a sibutramine weight management system
W P James
International Obesity Task Force, London, UK
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 25:S34-8. 2001
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- Effect of sibutramine on cardiovascular outcomes in overweight and obese subjects
W Philip T James
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, England
N Engl J Med 363:905-17. 2010
..The long-term effects of sibutramine treatment on the rates of cardiovascular events and cardiovascular death among subjects at high cardiovascular risk have not been established...
- Obesity: the worldwide epidemic
Philip T James
International Obesity Task Force, London, UK
Clin Dermatol 22:276-80. 2004
..Relatively new data suggest that abdominal obesity in adults, with its associated enhanced morbidity, occurs particularly in those who had lower birth weights and early childhood stunting...
- Obesity
David W Haslam
National Obesity Forum, Watton Place Clinic, Watton at Stone, Hertfordshire, SG14 3SY, UK
Lancet 366:1197-209. 2005
..Effective long-term weight loss depends on permanent changes in dietary quality, energy intake, and activity. Neither the medical management nor the societal preventive challenges are currently being met...
- Under- and overnutrition: a global perspective
W Philip T James
Public Health Policy Group and International Obesity TaskForce, London, UK
Nestle Nutr Workshop Ser Clin Perform Programme 9:1-12; discussion 13-7. 2004
- New understanding in obesity research
W P James
Rowett Research Institute, Bucksburn, Aberdeen, UK
Proc Nutr Soc 58:385-93. 1999
..The public-health aspects of obesity research are therefore challenging...
- Confronting the epidemic: the need for global solutions
Neville J Rigby
International Obesity Task Force, London, United Kingdom
J Public Health Policy 25:418-34. 2004
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- Impact of obesity as a mortality predictor in high-risk patients with myocardial infarction or chronic heart failure: a pooled analysis of five registries
Jawdat Abdulla
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Glostrup University Hospital, Nrd Ringvej, Glostrup 2600, Denmark
Eur Heart J 29:594-601. 2008
..To explore the influence of obesity on prognosis in high-risk patients with myocardial infarction (MI) or heart failure (HF)...
- Anthropometric cutoff points for predicting chronic diseases in the Mexican National Health Survey 2000
Claudia P Sánchez-Castillo
Departmento Fisioloía de la Nutricíon, National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition Salvador Zubiran, Tlapan, Mexico
Obes Res 11:442-51. 2003
..To determine optimum anthropometric cutoffs for predicting the likelihood ratios of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) and hypertension (HT) in Mexicans...
- Diabetes and hypertension increases in a society with abdominal obesity: results of the Mexican National Health Survey 2000
Claudia P Sánchez-Castillo
Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran, Direccion de Nutricion, Departamento de Fisiologia de la Nutricion, Tlalpan, Mexico
Public Health Nutr 8:53-60. 2005
..To determine the prevalences of overweight, obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) and hypertension (HT) in the Mexican population and compare them with those of a previous Mexican urban survey and an American survey...
- Rethinking the "diseases of affluence" paradigm: global patterns of nutritional risks in relation to economic development
Majid Ezzati
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
PLoS Med 2:e133. 2005
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- School food in Mexican children
Michelle Lozada
Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran, Direccion de Nutricion, Departamento de Fisiologia de la Nutricion, Vasco de Quiroga 15, Tlalpan, Mexico 14000 DF
Public Health Nutr 11:924-33. 2008
..To establish the school eating habits of Mexican children, who are prone to obesity and later to high rates of adult chronic diseases...
- [Deficient education in health and nutrition in Mexican schools: the topic of salt]
Michelle Lozada
Departamento de Fisiologia de la Nutricion, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran
Rev Invest Clin 59:365-72. 2007
..Given the rapidly increasing rates of adult chronic diseases in Mexico there is a need to assess the knowledge and understanding of these sufferings in relation to an inadequate diet...
- The high prevalence of overweight and obesity in Mexican children
Blanca E Del Río-Navarro
Hospital Infantil de Mexico, Federico Gomez, Mexico City, Mexico
Obes Res 12:215-23. 2004
..To establish the prevalence of overweight and obesity in Mexican children 10 to 17 years of age according to the percentiles from both the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF)...
- The importance of dietary carbohydrates
Claudia P Sánchez-Castillo
Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran, Mexico D F
Arch Latinoam Nutr 52:321-35. 2002
..However, the value provides no nutritional information per se. Food labels should provide values that aid consumers in selecting a healthy diet...
- Salt: its goodness and perversities
Michelle Lozada
Departamento de Fisiologia de la Nutricion, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran
Rev Invest Clin 59:382-93. 2007
..This paper presents a review of the main historical, clinical and therapeutic aspects of salt as well as the quantitative intakes in Mexico and other societies...
- The unstoppable Australian obesity and diabetes juggernaut. what should politicians do?
Paul Z Zimmet
Med J Aust 185:187-8. 2006
