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1. Full Text The obesity paradox' may not be a paradox at all
by Banack, H.R and Stokes, A
International Journal of Obesity, ISSN 0307-0565, 08/2017, Volume 41, Issue 8, pp. 1162 - 1163
You're a researcher seeking to understand the effect of exposure X on outcome Y in disease group Z. Hundreds, if not thousands, of articles have been published... 
DOSE-RESPONSE METAANALYSIS | ALL-CAUSE MORTALITY | INDIVIDUALS | NUTRITION & DIETETICS | REVERSE CAUSATION | ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM | CARDIOVASCULAR-DISEASE | SELECTION BIAS | BODY-MASS INDEX | WEIGHT | ASSOCIATION | RENAL-CELL CARCINOMA | Body Mass Index | Cardiovascular Diseases - physiopathology | Metabolic Diseases - physiopathology | Humans | Terminology as Topic | Obesity - physiopathology | Body Fat Distribution | Obesity | Analysis | Public health
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2. The obesity paradox
: when thinner means sicker and heavier means healthier
by Lavie, Carl J and Loberg, Kristin
2014, ISBN 9781594632440, xix, 268 pages
Most of us think that longevity hinges on maintaining a normal Body Mass Index. But research conducted over the last decade hit the media in January with... 
Body Composition | Obesity | Overweight persons | Composition | Human body | HEALTH & FITNESS / Food Content Guides | Health | United States | Psychology | Weight loss | physiology | HEALTH & FITNESS / Weight Loss | SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology / General | Fat cells | Physiological aspects | Health and hygiene | Adipose Tissue | Health aspects
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3. Full Text Obesity paradox does exist
by Hainer, Vojtech and Aldhoon-Hainerová, Irena
Diabetes Care, ISSN 0149-5992, 08/2013, Volume 36, Issue 2, pp. S276 - S281
MORTALITY | PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION | OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY-DISEASE | METABOLIC SYNDROME | BODY-MASS-INDEX | NUTRITIONAL-STATUS | ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM | INVERSE RELATIONSHIP | MUSCLE MASS | CONGESTIVE-HEART-FAILURE | ARTERY-DISEASE | Body Mass Index | Physical Fitness - physiology | Heart Failure - complications | Overweight - complications | Adipose Tissue - physiology | Obesity - complications | Humans | Heart Failure - physiopathology | Coronary Disease - epidemiology | Coronary Disease - physiopathology | Obesity - physiopathology | Nutritional Status - physiology | Overweight - epidemiology | Coronary Disease - complications | Obesity - epidemiology | Obesity - therapy | Body Composition - physiology | Obesity
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4. Full Text Obesity and Prevalence of Cardiovascular Diseases and Prognosis – the Obesity Paradox Updated
by Lavie, Carl J and De Schutter, Alban and Parto, Parham and Jahangir, Eiman and Kokkinos, Peter and Ortega, Francisco B and Arena, Ross and Milani, Richard V
Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases, ISSN 0033-0620, 2015, Volume 58, Issue 5, pp. 537 - 547
Abstract The prevalence and severity of obesity has increased in the United States and most of the Westernized World over recent decades, reaching worldwide... 
Cardiovascular | Obesity | Cardiorespiratory fitness | Cardiovascular diseases | Weight loss | LEFT-VENTRICULAR GEOMETRY | CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS | WEIGHT-LOSS | PRESERVED EJECTION FRACTION | ALL-CAUSE MORTALITY | ATRIAL VOLUME INDEX | BODY-MASS INDEX | PHYSICAL-ACTIVITY | CORONARY-HEART-DISEASE | ARTERY-DISEASE | Heart failure | Heart | Prognosis | Analysis | Atrial fibrillation | Coronary heart disease | Hypertension | Medical colleges | Sports sciences | Exercise | Physiological aspects | Diabetes
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5. Full Text Obesity paradoxes
by McAuley, Paul A and Blair, Steven N
Journal of Sports Sciences, ISSN 0264-0414, 05/2011, Volume 29, Issue 8, pp. 773 - 782
In this review, we examine the original obesity paradox phenomenon (i.e. in cardiovascular disease populations, obese patients survive better), as well as... 
mortality | Body mass index | cardiovascular disease | cardiorespiratory fitness | obesity paradox | Obesity paradox | Cardiorespiratory fitness | Cardiovascular disease | Mortality | SPORT SCIENCES | RISK-FACTORS | WEIGHT-LOSS | AMERICAN-HEART-ASSOCIATION | ALL-CAUSE MORTALITY | PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION | CARDIOVASCULAR-DISEASE MORTALITY | BODY-MASS INDEX | PHYSICAL-ACTIVITY | ARTERY-DISEASE | Body Mass Index | Models, Theoretical | Obesity | Humans | Middle Aged | Female | Male | Physical Fitness | Aged
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6. Full Text Themolecularmechanisms of obesity paradox
by Antonopoulos, Alexios S and Tousoulis, Dimitris
Cardiovascular Research, ISSN 0008-6363, 07/2017, Volume 113, Issue 9, pp. 1074 - 1086
Body mass index | Obesity | Cardiorespiratory fitness | Adipose tissue | Adiposity
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7. Full Text A Nutrition Paradox — Underweight and Obesity in Developing Countries
by Caballero, Benjamin
The New England Journal of Medicine, ISSN 0028-4793, 04/2005, Volume 352, Issue 15, pp. 1514 - 1516
The combination of underweight in children and overweight in adults, frequently coexisting in the same family, is a relatively new phenomenon in developing... 
Food Preferences | Life Style | Thinness - etiology | Humans | Child, Preschool | Energy Intake | Thinness - epidemiology | Diet | Malnutrition - epidemiology | Obesity - epidemiology | Urbanization | Adult | Obesity - etiology | Developing Countries | Child | Developing countries | Economic aspects | Obesity | Children | Social aspects | Health aspects | Poverty | Malnutrition | Developing countries--LDCs | Public health
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8. Full Text From the BMI paradox to the obesity paradox: the obesity–mortality association in coronary heart disease
by Antonopoulos, A. S and Oikonomou, E. K and Antoniades, C and Tousoulis, D
Obesity Reviews, ISSN 1467-7881, 10/2016, Volume 17, Issue 10, pp. 989 - 1000
Summary Despite a strong association between body weight and mortality in the general population, clinical evidence suggests better clinical outcome of... 
coronary heart disease | Adipose tissue | body mass index | obesity | IN-HOSPITAL OUTCOMES | METABOLICALLY HEALTHY | PROSPECTIVE COHORT | ALL-CAUSE MORTALITY | CARDIORESPIRATORY FITNESS | ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM | ACUTE MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION | CARDIOVASCULAR-DISEASE | BODY-MASS INDEX | PERIVASCULAR ADIPOSE-TISSUE | ARTERY-DISEASE | Body Mass Index | Comorbidity | Obesity - complications | Humans | Risk Factors | Coronary Disease - physiopathology | Obesity - physiopathology | Survival Rate | Coronary Disease - mortality | Obesity - metabolism | Phenotype | Adiposity | Coronary Disease - metabolism | Body Fat Distribution | Obesity - mortality | Obesity | Health aspects | Coronary heart disease | Body weight | Mortality
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9. Full Text Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease. Risk Factor, Paradox, and Impact of Weight Loss
by Lavie, Carl J and Milani, Richard V and Ventura, Hector O
Journal of the American College of Cardiology, ISSN 0735-1097, 05/2009, Volume 53, Issue 21, pp. 1925 - 1932
Obesity has reached global epidemic proportions in both adults and children and is associated with numerous comorbidities, including hypertension (HTN), type... 
weight loss | cardiovascular disease | obesity | GASTRIC BYPASS | CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS | FOLLOW-UP | LONG-TERM MORTALITY | LEFT-VENTRICULAR HYPERTROPHY | LIFE-STYLE | BODY-MASS INDEX | BARIATRIC SURGERY | CARDIAC REHABILITATION | CORONARY-ARTERY-DISEASE | SYSTOLIC HEART-FAILURE | Cardiovascular Diseases - etiology | United States - epidemiology | Prevalence | Obesity - complications | Weight Loss | Humans | Obesity - epidemiology | Risk Factors | Cardiovascular Diseases - epidemiology | Obesity | Cardiovascular disease | Weight control | Apolipoproteins | Mortality | Cholesterol
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10. Full Text The "Obesity Paradox" Explained
by Hailey R. Banack and Jay S. Kaufman
Epidemiology, ISSN 1044-3983, 5/2013, Volume 24, Issue 3, pp. 461 - 462
Obesity | Body mass index | Mortality | Letters | Selection bias | Disease manifestations | Paradoxes | Epidemiology | Heart diseases | Disease risks | Overweight | MORTALITY | PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH | COHORT | HEART-FAILURE | Heart Failure - complications | United States - epidemiology | Nutrition Surveys | Obesity - complications | Humans | Selection Bias | Obesity - mortality | Heart Failure - mortality
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11. Full Text Adipose Composition and Heart Failure Prognosis: Paradox or Not?
by Lavie, Carl J and Milani, Richard V and Ventura, Hector O
Journal of the American College of Cardiology, ISSN 0735-1097, 12/2017, Volume 70, Issue 22, pp. 2750 - 2751
Hippocrates (1) Overweight and obesity have substantial adverse effects on the cardiovascular system, leading to increases in many of the major cardiovascular... 
waist circumference | heart failure | adipose | body mass index | obesity | waist circumference | MORTALITY | CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS | METAANALYSIS | OBESITY PARADOX | BODY-MASS INDEX | Body mass index | Obesity | Cardiovascular disease | Health risk assessment | Heart diseases | Mortality
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12. Full Text Renal cell carcinoma survival and body mass index: A dose-response meta-analysis reveals another potential paradox within a paradox
by Bagheri, M and Speakman, J.R and Shemirani, F and Djafarian, K
International Journal of Obesity, ISSN 0307-0565, 12/2016, Volume 40, Issue 12, pp. 1817 - 1822
BACKGROUND: In healthy subjects increasing body mass index (BMI) leads to greater mortality from a range of causes. Following onset of specific diseases,... 
ALL-CAUSE MORTALITY | IMPACT | NUTRITION & DIETETICS | PROGNOSIS | LONG-TERM SURVIVAL | OBESITY PARADOX | OVERWEIGHT | ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM | REVERSE EPIDEMIOLOGY | TREND ESTIMATION | ASSOCIATION | CARDIOVASCULAR RISK-FACTORS | Body Mass Index | Carcinoma, Renal Cell - mortality | Carcinoma, Renal Cell - physiopathology | Kidney Neoplasms - physiopathology | Humans | Risk Factors | Proportional Hazards Models | Obesity - physiopathology | Obesity - mortality | Kidney Neoplasms - mortality | Body mass index | Obesity | Complications and side effects | Care and treatment | Iran | Analysis | Patient outcomes | Mortality | Carcinoma, Renal cell | Diagnosis | Health aspects | Risk factors
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13. Full Text The obesity paradox: Body mass index and outcomes in patients undergoing nonbariatric general surgery
by Mullen, John T and Moorman, Donald W and Davenport, Daniel L
Annals of Surgery, ISSN 0003-4932, 07/2009, Volume 250, Issue 1, pp. 166 - 172
Objective: We sought to examine the effect of body mass index (BMI) on 30-day morbidity and mortality in a large cohort of patients undergoing nonbariatric... 
MORTALITY | SURGERY | PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION | IMPACT | QUALITY | POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS | SURGICAL CARE | SERUM-ALBUMIN | PERIOPERATIVE MORBIDITY | RISK ADJUSTMENT | PROSPECTIVE COHORT | Body Mass Index | Obesity - surgery | United States - epidemiology | Prospective Studies | Thinness - mortality | Surgical Procedures, Operative - mortality | Humans | Middle Aged | Risk Factors | Chronic Disease - epidemiology | Male | Surgical Procedures, Operative - statistics & numerical data | Treatment Outcome | Obesity, Morbid - mortality | Critical Illness - epidemiology | Thinness - epidemiology | Overweight - epidemiology | Obesity - epidemiology | Female | Obesity - mortality | Cohort Studies | Obesity, Morbid - epidemiology
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14. Full Text Body Composition and Coronary Heart Disease Mortality—An Obesity or a Lean Paradox?
by Lavie, Carl J., MD and De Schutter, Alban, MD and Patel, Dharmendrakumar, MD and Artham, Surya M., MD and Milani, Richard V., MD
Mayo Clinic Proceedings, ISSN 0025-6196, 2011, Volume 86, Issue 9, pp. 857 - 864
OBJECTIVE To determine the combined effects of body mass index (BMI) and body fat (BF) on prognosis in coronary heart disease (CHD) to better understand the... 
Internal Medicine | SURVIVAL | LEFT-VENTRICULAR GEOMETRY | MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL | MASS INDEX | WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE | CARDIOVASCULAR-DISEASE | FAT DISTRIBUTION | FAILURE | ASSOCIATION | ARTERY-DISEASE | ATRIAL-FIBRILLATION | Body Composition | Body Mass Index | Confidence Intervals | Prevalence | Follow-Up Studies | Comorbidity | Humans | Middle Aged | Risk Factors | Male | Coronary Disease - diagnosis | Cause of Death | Coronary Disease - mortality | Adult | Female | Obesity - diagnosis | Aged | Obesity - mortality | Causality | Odds Ratio | Adipose tissues | Measurement | Body mass index | Prognosis | Research | Coronary heart disease | Original
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15. The obesity paradox
: is it time for a paradigm shift in obesity treatment?
by Blair, Steven N and Gaesser, Glenn A. (Glenn Alan) and Roberts, Christian K
2010, Sports medicine and exercise science in video
The (3) presentations from the Select Symposium at the 2010 ACSM annual meeting on whether the issue of obesity is being addressed and treated appropriately... 
Prevention | Obesity | Treatment | Health aspects
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16. Full Text The Dieter's Paradox
by Chernev, Alexander
Journal of Consumer Psychology, ISSN 1057-7408, 2011, Volume 21, Issue 2, pp. 178 - 183
Despite the vast public policy efforts to promote the consumption of healthy foods and the public's growing concern with weight management, the proportion of... 
Virtue | Paradox | Choice | Diet | Health | Vice | SELF-CONTROL | SIZE | PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED | BUSINESS | GOALS | OBESITY | CONSUMER CHOICE | NUTRITION | TEMPTATIONS
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