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Is obesity a disease?S Heshka
New York Obesity Research Center, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital, Columbia University Institute of Human Nutrition, New York 10025, USA
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 25:1401-4. 2001..Labeling obesity a disease may be expedient but it is not a necessary step in a campaign to combat obesity and it may be interpreted as self-serving advocacy without a sound scientific basis...- Weight loss with self-help compared with a structured commercial program: a randomized trialStanley Heshka
New York Obesity Research Center, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital and Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
JAMA 289:1792-8. 2003..Although commercial weight loss programs provide treatment to millions of clients, their efficacy has not been evaluated in rigorous long-term trials... 
Truncal fat in relation to total body fat: influences of age, sex, ethnicity and fatnessC H Wu
Obesity Research Center, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY, USA
Int J Obes (Lond) 31:1384-91. 2007..To investigate the influence of age, sex, ethnicity and total fatness on central obesity in four ethnic populations...- MRI-measured bone marrow adipose tissue is inversely related to DXA-measured bone mineral in Caucasian womenW Shen
Obesity Research Center, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital and Institute of Human Nutrition, Columbia University, 1090 Amsterdam Avenue, 14H, New York, NY 10025, USA
Osteoporos Int 18:641-7. 2007..Previous research using regional magnetic resonance spectroscopy methods to measure BMAT has reported inconsistent findings on the relationship between BMAT and dual-energy absorptiometry (DXA)-measured bone mineral density (BMD)... - Altered body composition in type 2 diabetes mellitusS Heshka
Obesity Research Center, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital, New York, NY, USA
Int J Obes (Lond) 32:780-7. 2008..To identify differences in amount and distribution of fat and lean soft tissue in a cross-sectional study of subjects with and without type 2 diabetes and to determine whether any differences are affected by race/ethnicity or sex... - Intermuscular adipose tissue rivals visceral adipose tissue in independent associations with cardiovascular riskJ E Yim
Department of Medicine, Obesity Research Center, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Int J Obes (Lond) 31:1400-5. 2007..The metabolic implications of intermuscular adipose tissue (IMAT) are poorly understood compared to those of visceral adipose tissue (VAT) even though the absolute quantities of both depots are similar in many individuals... - Resting energy expenditure-fat-free mass relationship: new insights provided by body composition modelingZ Wang
Obesity Research Center, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York 10025, USA
Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 279:E539-45. 2000.... - Visceral adipose tissue: relationships between single slice areas at different locations and obesity-related health risksW Shen
Obesity Research Center, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital and Institute of Human Nutrition, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10025, USA
Int J Obes (Lond) 31:763-9. 2007..At present, it is unknown whether the area with the highest correlation is also the most strongly associated with obesity-related health risk... - Resting energy expenditure: systematic organization and critique of prediction methodsZ Wang
Obesity Research Center, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA
Obes Res 9:331-6. 2001.... - Alternative treatments for weight loss: a critical reviewD B Allison
Obesity Research Center, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital Center, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10025, USA
Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr 41:1-28; discussion 39-40. 2001..Nevertheless, some have plausible mechanisms of action and encouraging preliminary data that are sufficiently provocative to merit further research... - Low physical activity levels of modern Homo sapiens among free-ranging mammalsM Hayes
Department of Medicine, Obesity Research Center, St Luke's/Roosevelt Hospital, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10025, USA
Int J Obes (Lond) 29:151-6. 2005..Our observations lend support to the hypothesis that low activity-related energy expenditure levels contribute to the rising worldwide prevalence of obesity... - The reconstruction of Kleiber's law at the organ-tissue levelZ Wang
Obesity Research Center, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10025, USA
J Nutr 131:2967-70. 2001..76)) is similar to that observed by Kleiber on the whole-body level. Modeling mammalian REE at the organ-tissue level provides new insights and pathways for future mechanistic explorations of REE-body composition relationships... - Assortative mating for relative weight: genetic implicationsD B Allison
Obesity Research Center, Saint Luke s Roosevelt Hospital, Columbia University College of, Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York 10025, USA
Behav Genet 26:103-11. 1996..The implications of these findings for heritability studies, linkage studies, and the estimation of shared environmental effects are discussed... - Is there an association between skeletal muscle mass and bone mineral density among African-American, Asian-American, and European-American women?A J Sun
Obesity Research Center, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital Institute of Human Nutrition, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, USA
Acta Diabetol 40:S309-13. 2003..Body weight and age were positively and negatively associated with TBBMD, respectively, and the relationship was stronger in POM. In all race groups the variability in TBBMD was significantly greater in POM women... - Sexual dimorphism in the energy content of weight changeA Pietrobelli
New York Obesity Research Center, St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, Columbia University Institute of Human Nutrition, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, USA
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 26:1339-48. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: Sexual dimorphism and age-dependency appears to exist in the estimated energy content of weight change and these observations have important clinical and research implications... - Total body protein mass: validation of total body potassium prediction model in children and adolescentsZiMian Wang
Obesity Research Center, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA
J Nutr 136:1032-6. 2006..032, P > 0.05). The TBK-Mo model can thus be used to estimate TBPro in healthy adults, adolescents, and children > 5 y old... - A cellular-level approach to predicting resting energy expenditure across the adult yearsZiMian Wang
Obesity Research Center, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 81:799-806. 2005..Although the model predicted REE well in young persons, it overpredicted REE by approximately 11% in elderly adults. This overprediction may occur because of a decline in the fraction of organs and tissues as cell mass with aging... - Adipose tissue in muscle: a novel depot similar in size to visceral adipose tissueDympna Gallagher
Department of Medicine, Obesity Research Center, St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, New York, NY, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 81:903-10. 2005..CONCLUSION: Race differences in AT distribution extend to IMAT, a depot that may influence race-ethnicity differences in dysglycemia... - Estimating whole body intermuscular adipose tissue from single cross-sectional magnetic resonance imagesXiang Yan Ruan
Department of Medicine, Obesity Research Center, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital, New York, New York 10025, USA
J Appl Physiol 102:748-54. 2007..For group studies, it may be more cost-effective to estimate IMAT based on one or more slices than to acquire and segment for each subject the numerous images necessary to quantify whole body IMAT... - Metabolically active portion of fat-free mass: a cellular body composition level modeling analysisZiMian Wang
Obesity Research Center, 1090 Amsterdam Ave, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10025, USA
Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 292:E49-53. 2007..584 +/- 0.041 and 0.529 +/- 0.041 for adult men and women (P < 0.001), respectively. A multiple linear regression model showed that there are independent significant associations of sex, age, and fat mass with BCM/FFM... - Waist circumference correlates with metabolic syndrome indicators better than percentage fatWei Shen
Obesity Research Center, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital, New York, NY 10025, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 14:727-36. 2006.... - Air displacement plethysmography: validation in overweight and obese subjectsSamir R Ginde
Weight Control Unit, 1090 Amsterdam Avenue, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10025, USA
Obes Res 13:1232-7. 2005..DISCUSSION: Body density, an important physical property used in human body composition models, can be accurately measured by ADP in overweight and obese subjects... - Small organs with a high metabolic rate explain lower resting energy expenditure in African American than in white adultsDympna Gallagher
Obesity Research Center, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital, New York, NY 10025, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 83:1062-7. 2006..Whether the composition of FFM at the organ-tissue level differs between African Americans and whites and, if so, whether that difference could account for differences by race in REE are unknown... - Serum iron and body fat distribution in a multiethnic cohort of adults living in New York CityEarle C Chambers
New York Obesity Research Center, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 106:680-4. 2006..To examine the relationship between serum iron and body composition in a multiracial adult cohort... - Independent association of insulin resistance with larger amounts of intermuscular adipose tissue and a greater acute insulin response to glucose in African American than in white nondiabetic womenJeanine B Albu
Obesity Research Center, Department of Medicine, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital Center, Columbia University, New York, NY 10025, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 82:1210-7. 2005..Higher insulin resistance and hyperinsulinemia have been reported in adult AAs than in whites. Differences in adipose tissue and its distribution may account for these findings... - Total-body skeletal muscle mass: estimation by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry in children and adolescentsJaehee Kim
Obesity Research Center, St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 84:1014-20. 2006..A new DXA SM prediction model was developed for prepubertal and pubertal subjects (Tanner stage </=4) aged >/=5 y. DXA thus provides an important opportunity for quantifying total-body SM mass across most of the human life span... - Evaluation of between-methods agreement of extracellular water measurements in adults and childrenAnaliza M Silva
New York Obesity Research Center, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital, Columbia University Institute of Human Nutrition, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 88:315-23. 2008..Extracellular water (ECW), a relevant molecular level component for clinical assessment, is commonly obtained by 2 methods that rely on assumptions that may not be possible to test at the time the measurements are made... - Metabolic flexibility in response to glucose is not impaired in people with type 2 diabetes after controlling for glucose disposal rateJose E Galgani
Pennington Biomedical Research Center, 6400 Perkins Rd, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, USA
Diabetes 57:841-5. 2008.... - Femoral-gluteal subcutaneous and intermuscular adipose tissues have independent and opposing relationships with CVD riskJung Eun Yim
Department of Medicine, Obesity Research Center, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital, 1090 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10025, USA
J Appl Physiol 104:700-7. 2008..05 for both). Femoral-gluteal SAT and femoral-gluteal IMAT distribution varies by sex and race, and these two components have independent and opposing relationships with CVD risk factors... - Greater resting energy expenditure and lower respiratory quotient after 1 week of supplementation with milk relative to supplementation with a sugar-only beverage in childrenMarie Pierre St-Onge
Obesity Research Center, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
Metabolism 56:1699-707. 2007..Over the longer term, consumption of milk beverages may have more favorable effects on energy balance in children than consumption of fruit-flavored beverages... - Truncal adiposity and lung function in older black womenEarle C Chambers
Department of Family and Social Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, 1300 Morris Park Ave, Mazer 111, Bronx, New York 10461, USA
Lung 186:13-7. 2008..Results of this study show that truncal fat mass measured by DXA is more strongly associated with lung function than anthropometric indices of truncal adiposity in this sample of women... - A new total body potassium method to estimate total body skeletal muscle mass in childrenZiMian Wang
Obesity Research Center, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10025, USA
J Nutr 137:1988-91. 2007..Because the adult TBK SM prediction model is not applicable for pediatric use, this study provides new empirical TBK SM prediction equations that should prove useful for studies on nutrition, growth, and development in children... - Independent associations of insulin resistance with high whole-body intermuscular and low leg subcutaneous adipose tissue distribution in obese HIV-infected womenJeanine B Albu
Endocrine, Diabetes and Nutrition Division, The New York Obesity Research Center, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital Center, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10025, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 86:100-6. 2007..Obesity and insulin resistance are growing problems in HIV-positive (HIV+) women receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART)... - Extracellular water across the adult lifespan: reference values for adultsAnaliza M Silva
Exercise and Health Laboratory, Faculty of Human Movement, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Physiol Meas 28:489-502. 2007.... - Higher insulin, triglycerides, and blood pressure with greater trunk fat in Tanner 1 ChineseQing He
St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital, Obesity Research Center, and Institute of Human Nutrition, Columbia University New York, NY 10025, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 15:1004-11. 2007..The aims of this study were to investigate the body fat distribution pattern in prepubertal Chinese children and to investigate the relationship between central fat distribution and specific biomarkers of cardiovascular disease... - Incretin levels and effect are markedly enhanced 1 month after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery in obese patients with type 2 diabetesBLANDINE LAFERRERE
Obesity Research Center, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital Center, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1111 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10025, USA
Diabetes Care 30:1709-16. 2007..We hypothesized that in obese patients with type 2 diabetes the impaired levels and effect of incretins changed as a consequence of RY-GBP... - Serum magnesium and type-2 diabetes in African Americans and Hispanics: a New York cohortEarle C Chambers
Obesity Research Center, New York, NY 10025, USA
J Am Coll Nutr 25:509-13. 2006..The aim of this study was to examine the relationship of serum Mg with stage of diabetes measured by fasting serum glucose in a cohort of 485 African American and Hispanic adults... - Four-compartment cellular level body composition model: comparison of two approachesWei Shen
Obesity Research Center, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Institute of Human Nutrition, Weight Control Unit, 1090 Amsterdam Avenue, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10025, USA
Obes Res 13:58-65. 2005.... - Extracellular water: greater expansion with age in African AmericansAnaliza M Silva
Exercise and Health Laboratory, Faculty of Human Movement-Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
J Appl Physiol 99:261-7. 2005..05). The ECW compartment and E/I are thus variably larger, according to race, in healthy older subjects independent of sex, lean soft tissue, and fat mass... - Race-ethnicity-specific waist circumference cutoffs for identifying cardiovascular disease risk factorsShankuan Zhu
Injury Research Center and Department of Family and Community Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 81:409-15. 2005..However, WC cutoffs for other race-ethnicity groups remain unknown... - Body-size dependence of resting energy expenditure can be attributed to nonenergetic homogeneity of fat-free massSteven B Heymsfield
New York Obesity Research Center, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital, New York, NY 10025, USA
Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 282:E132-8. 2002..These observations have important implications for the interpretation of between-individual differences in REE expressed relative to metabolically active tissue mass... - Percentage body fat ranges associated with metabolic syndrome risk: results based on the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1988-1994)Shankuan Zhu
New York Obesity Research Center, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital, Institute of Human Nutrition, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 78:228-35. 2003..Increasing attention has focused on the association between body fatness and related metabolic risk factors. The quantitative link between percentage body fat (%BF) and the risk of metabolic syndrome is unknown... - Total body potassium differs by sex and race across the adult age spanQing He
Obesity Research Center, St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, and Institute of Human Nutrition, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 1025, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 78:72-7. 2003..CONCLUSION: Significant sex and racial differences exist in the rate of change in TBK with age. Further studies are needed to explore the associations of declining TBK with health risks... - Larger mass of high-metabolic-rate organs does not explain higher resting energy expenditure in childrenAmy Hsu
Institute of Human Nutrition, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 77:1506-11. 2003..CONCLUSION: The decline in REE during growth is likely due to both a decrease in the proportion of some of the more metabolically active organs and tissues and changes in the metabolic rate of individual organs and tissues... - Recombinant variant of ciliary neurotrophic factor for weight loss in obese adults: a randomized, dose-ranging studyMark P Ettinger
Radiant Research, Stuart, Fla, USA
JAMA 289:1826-32. 2003..CONCLUSIONS: In this initial, dose-ranging, 12-week study, treatment with rhvCNTF resulted in more weight loss than placebo. These preliminary findings require confirmation in large prospective clinical trials... - The metabolic syndrome: prevalence and associated risk factor findings in the US population from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-1994Yong-Woo Park
Department of Family Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
Arch Intern Med 163:427-36. 2003..Identification and clinical management of this high-risk group is an important aspect of coronary heart disease prevention... - Volume estimates by imaging methods: model comparisons with visible woman as the referenceWei Shen
Obesity Research Center, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital, Columbia University, New York, USA
Obes Res 11:217-25. 2003..To compare the accuracy of four volume estimation models to actual tissue and organ volumes measured in the visible woman... - Magnitude and variation of fat-free mass density: a cellular-level body composition modeling studyZiMian Wang
Obesity Research Center, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York 10025, USA
Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 284:E267-73. 2003..The difference in FFM density across sex, race, and age groups was examined with the developed model. The present study thus provides a conceptual framework for the systematic study of FFM density in humans... - DXA: potential for creating a metabolic map of organ-tissue resting energy expenditure componentsMatthew Hayes
Department of Medicine, Obesity Research Center, St. Luke's/Roosevelt Hospital, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York 10025, USA
Obes Res 10:969-77. 2002..DISCUSSION: This approach offers a new practical and educational opportunity to examine REE in subject groups using modeling strategies that reveal the magnitude and distribution of fundamental somatic heat-producing units... - Waist circumference and obesity-associated risk factors among whites in the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey: clinical action thresholdsShankuan Zhu
New York Obesity Research Center, St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Institute of Human Nutrition, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 10025, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 76:743-9. 2002..CONCLUSION: WC is more closely linked to cardiovascular disease risk factors than is BMI... - Sex and race differences in fat distribution among Asian, African-American, and Caucasian prepubertal childrenQing He
Obesity Research Center, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, Institute of Human Nutrition, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York 10025, USA
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 87:2164-70. 2002..This comparison of African-American, Asian, and Caucasian prepubertal children suggests phenotypic differences. Additional studies are needed to explore the metabolic and health risk implications of these findings... - Trunk fat and blood pressure in children through pubertyQing He
Obesity Research Center, St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, New York, NY 10025, USA
Circulation 105:1093-8. 2002..These findings, based on 2 independent measures of fat distribution, may help identify the specific features of individuals at risk, allow earlier intervention, and suggest sex-specific determinants for BP... - Body cell mass: model development and validation at the cellular level of body compositionZiMian Wang
Weight Control Unit, Obesity Research Center, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1090 Amsterdam Avenue, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10025, USA
Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 286:E123-8. 2004..0083 x TBK) formulated on rough tissue composition estimates. The present analyses provide a physiologically based, improved, and validated TBK-BCM prediction formula that should prove useful in body composition and metabolism research... - Total body protein: a new cellular level mass and distribution prediction modelZiMian Wang
Obesity Research Center, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10025, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 78:979-84. 2003.... - Lifestyle behaviors associated with lower risk of having the metabolic syndromeShankuan Zhu
Injury Research Center, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
Metabolism 53:1503-11. 2004..These observations have potentially important value for public health recommendations... - Dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry-measured lean soft tissue mass: differing relation to body cell mass across the adult life spanMarie-Pierre St-Onge
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 59:796-800. 2004..001) than women; quadratic and cubic age terms were also significant or approached significance. Thus, the fraction of LST as BCM is smaller in older adults, a finding that has implications for the interpretation of DEXA results... - Total body skeletal muscle and adipose tissue volumes: estimation from a single abdominal cross-sectional imageWei Shen
Obesity Research Center, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
J Appl Physiol 97:2333-8. 2004..Measurement of a single abdominal image can thus provide estimates of total body SM and AT for group studies of healthy adults... - Visceral adipose tissue: relations between single-slice areas and total volumeWei Shen
Obesity Research Center, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital, and the Institute of Human Nutrition, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1090 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10025, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 80:271-8. 2004..However, the location of the slice with the strongest relation to VAT volume is not established... - Three-compartment model: critical evaluation based on neutron activation analysisAnaliza M Silva
Exercise and Health Laboratory, Faculty of Human Movement, Technical University of Lisbon, 1495-688 Lisbon, Portugal
Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 287:E962-9. 2004..The present study results provide a critical evaluation of potential errors in the classic 3C model and present new formulas for use in selected populations... - Body-composition differences between African American and white women: relation to resting energy requirementsAlfredo Jones
Department of Medicine, Obesity Research Center, St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Weight Control Unit, 1090 Amsterdam Avenue, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10025, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 79:780-6. 2004.... - Sex-specific fat distribution is not linear across pubertal groups in a multiethnic studyQing He
Body Composition Unit-Obesity Research Center, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, Plant Basement New York, New York 10025, USA
Obes Res 12:725-33. 2004..These findings suggested that the greater sexual dimorphism of fat distribution in late puberty compared with prepuberty may be attributable to larger changes in boys with smaller changes in girls... - Combination of BMI and Waist Circumference for Identifying Cardiovascular Risk Factors in WhitesShankuan Zhu
New York Obesity Research Center, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital Center and Institute of Human Nutrition, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, USA
Obes Res 12:633-45. 2004..The present study sought to identify the combination of BMI and WC that has the strongest association with CVD risk factors in whites... - Intermuscular adipose tissue-free skeletal muscle mass: estimation by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry in adultsJaehee Kim
Obesity Research Center, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 10025, USA
J Appl Physiol 97:655-60. 2004..The DXA-based models are accurate for predicting IMAT-free SM in selected populations and thus provide a new opportunity for quantifying SM in physiological and epidemiological investigations... - Effect of calcium supplementation on weight and fat loss in womenSue A Shapses
Department of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901, USA
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 89:632-7. 2004..Nevertheless, the magnitude and direction of the differences for group means are consistent with a hypothesized small effect... - Excessive weight gain in cardiac transplant recipientsJill J Williams
Institute of Human Nutrition, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA
J Heart Lung Transplant 25:36-41. 2006..Overweight and obesity development was not related to prednisone dose alone. This observation may have important clinical and research implications... - Reproducibility of single- and multi-voxel 1H MRS measurements of intramyocellular lipid in overweight and lean subjects under conditions of controlled dietary calorie and fat intakeWei Shen
Obesity Research Center, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital and Institute of Human Nutrition, Columbia University, New York, USA
NMR Biomed 21:498-506. 2008.... - Dubious assumptions underlying the adjustment of metabolic rates for changes in fat-free massDympna Gallagher
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 88:3454; author reply 3454-5. 2003 - Depression score predicts weight loss following Roux-en-Y gastric bypassYelena Averbukh
Department of Medicine, St.Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, New York, USA
Obes Surg 13:833-6. 2003..Future prospective studies should examine possible mechanisms and effects of depression and other psychiatric disturbances on long-term weight loss after RYGBP... - Maternal-child feeding patterns and child body weight: findings from a population-based sampleMyles S Faith
Weight and Eating Disorders Program, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia 19104, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 157:926-32. 2003..Certain mother-child feeding patterns (MCFPs) may promote childhood obesity and/or disordered eating...