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Eating Disorder Features in Bipolar Disorder: Course, Psychological Correlates, and Relationship with Quality of Life
Published 2019-01-01
Despite growing interest in eating disorders (EDs) comorbid with bipolar disorder (BD), little research has considered the nature of ED features and their association with physical health and psychosocial outcomes. The ...
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Overweight and Obesity in Adolescents in Ho Chi Minh City: From qualitative and quantitative evidence to peer-led intervention
Published 2019-08-01
The aim of this body of research is to provide scientific evidence of nutritional factors and context related to overweight and obesity in adolescents in HCMC and to design a locally feasible and effective intervention to ...
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Prevalence and outcomes in people with obesity across the spectrum of chronic kidney disease
Published 2020-01-01
Background: Obesity and chronic kidney disease (CKD) are conditions with increasing prevalence. The interplay between these two chronic illnesses has an impact on long term outcomes in people who have both. Methods: Simple ...
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Endoluminal weight loss and metabolic therapies: current and future techniques
Published 2019-06-30
Background The majority of obese patients remain untreated, creating the need for an effective, well-tolerated, safe and appealing therapeutic approach. Endoluminal therapies have the potential to fulfil this unmet clinical ...
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Designing a Lifestyle Program for Adolescents from Middle Eastern Backgrounds
Published 2022
Halting the rise in the prevalence of overweight and obesity among adolescents is a key priority, to ensure healthy behaviours are entrenched and co-morbidities minimised during this transitory period into adulthood. ...
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Experiences of using Very Low Energy Diets for weight loss in consumers and providers: Qualitative Findings
Published 2022
Background: Obesity and overweight are both, risk factors for numerous chronic diseases and thus, represent a high cost, both population wide and on a personal level. In Australia, this cost and the prevalence of obesity ...
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Associations between dietary exposures in childhood and adulthood and cardiometabolic health: mapping the literature and a case study on breakfast consumption
Published 2021
Associations between dietary exposures and cardiometabolic health are typically examined in adulthood but would ideally be examined based on measurements of a dietary exposure in both childhood and adulthood. Such research ...
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Grazing in Obesity and Eating Disorders: Prevalence, Clinical Correlates and Relationships with Executive Functioning and Goal-Directed Behaviour
Published 2020
Grazing is a common, detrimental eating behaviour in bariatric surgery settings. Little is known about grazing in obesity in general, or within eating disorders. The aim of this thesis was to improve understanding of the ...
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Dietary interventions and psychological risk in adolescents with obesity
Published 2020
The management of adolescent obesity is a global priority. Evidence for a range of treatment approaches are required for use across the care continuum and to allow adaptation to individual adolescents. There is also ...
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Where we live, who we are, or what we think? Epidemiological studies on the interplay between neighbourhood socioeconomic circumstances, gender, and actual and perceived weight status
Published 2020-01-01
Inequities in body mass index may be driven by where people live, their personal characteristics and perceptions. Multilevel analyses of multiple waves of the Household Income and Labour Market Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) ...
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