A Prospective Study of Weight Change and Health-Related Quality of Life in Women
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Weight loss can significantly improve the quality of life for many women. In a study of 40,098 women participating in the Nurses' Health Study, 39% maintained their weight over a 4-year period, 38% gained weight, and 17% lost weight. Weight gain led to decreased physical function and vitality and increased body pain. These effects were reversed in women who lost weight. This was true even in elderly women. The average body weight of adult Americans has increased 7.6 pounds since the mid-1980s.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1999
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Television watching and other sedentary behaviors in relation to risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus in women
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About one-third of all new cases of obesity and type 2 diabetes could be prevented if all Americans would watch less television and exercise more. This was one of the conclusions of the Nurses' Health Study, which has followed 121,700 women in 11 US states since 1976. Only 30 minutes of brisk walking every day would be enough exercise to lower a woman's risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2003
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Biomarkers of endothelial dysfunction and risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus
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Endothelial dysfunction predicts type 2 diabetes in women independent of other known risk factors, including obesity and subclinical inflammation. Patients with type 2 diabetes have elevated plasma levels of biomarkers reflecting endothelial dysfunction, but whether these abnormalities exist prior to the development of diabetes is not known.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2004
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