Objective: NIH Clinical Guidelines (1998) recommend the measurement of waist circumference
(WC, centimeters) within body mass index (BMI, kilograms per square meter) categories …

Background The incidence of Alzheimer’s disease is increasing as the global population
ages. Given the limited success of pharmaceuticals in preventing this disease, a greater …

Objectives To investigate the temporal trends in the mortality burden attributed to overweight
and obesity in Canada between 1985 and 2000. Design Overweight and obesity …

OBJECTIVE The clinical relevance of the metabolically normal but obese phenotype for
mortality risk is unclear. This study examines the risk for all-cause mortality in metabolically …

OBJECTIVE The metabolic syndrome is a general term given to a clustering of cardiometabolic
risk factors that may consist of different phenotype combinations. The purpose of this …

We sought to determine whether the Edmonton Obesity Staging System (EOSS), a newly
proposed tool using obesity-related comorbidities, can help identify obese individuals who are …

Objective: To develop and cross‐validate waist circumference (WC) thresholds within BMI
categories. The utility of the derived values was compared with the single WC thresholds (…

Background: The immigrant population in Canada is diverse and growing, yet little is known
about their physical activity behaviour and how it changes as they adapt to a Canadian …

Obesity, overweight Page 1 Obesity, overweight Abstract Objectives This article describes
the prevalence of self-reported overweight and obesity, based on body mass index (BMi), by …

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the degree of CHD awareness as well as symptom, risk factor,
and treatment knowledge in a broad sample of cardiac inpatients, and to examine its …