Thinness
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

The association between food insecurity and mortality among HIV-infected individuals on HAART.

30 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Food insecurity is increasingly recognized as a barrier to optimal treatment outcomes, but there is little data on this issue. We assessed associations between food insecurity and mortality among HIV-infected antiretroviral ... Read more...

Randomized clinical trial of behavioral intervention and nutrition education to improve caloric intake and weight in children with cystic fibrosis.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the efficacy of a behavioral plus nutrition education intervention, Be In CHARGE!, compared with that of a nutrition education intervention alone on caloric intake and weight gain in children with cystic fibrosis and ... Read more...

Variation in care in pediatric Crohn disease.

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVES: Variation in medical care can be a barrier to improving clinical outcomes. We aim to describe the variation in care of Crohn disease as provided by a broad sample of pediatric gastroenterologists. METHODS: Two hundred forty-six Crohn ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Thinness'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The association between food insecurity and mortality among HIV-infected individuals on HAART. 30 Oct 2009
• Randomized clinical trial of behavioral intervention and nutrition education to improve caloric intake and weight in children with cystic fibrosis. 29 Sep 2009
• Variation in care in pediatric Crohn disease. 30 Aug 2009
• Meta-analytic moderators of experimental exposure to media portrayals of women on female appearance satisfaction: Social comparisons as automatic processes. 26 Aug 2009
• The effects of TV commercials using less thin models on young women's mood, body image and actual food intake. 18 Aug 2009
• Cardiac and skeletal muscle fatty acid transport and transporters and triacylglycerol and fatty acid oxidation in lean and Zucker diabetic fatty rats. 10 Aug 2009
• Factors associated with being underweight, overweight and obese among ever-married non-pregnant urban women in Bangladesh. 30 Jul 2009
• Genetic risk factors for disordered eating in adolescent males and females. 30 Jul 2009
• Lean, but not obese, fat is enriched for a unique population of regulatory T cells that affect metabolic parameters. 24 Jul 2009
• Internalization of the thin ideal among low-income ethnic minority adolescent girls. 7 Jul 2009
• Insulin resistance in adolescents with type 2 diabetes is associated with impaired exercise capacity. 5 Jul 2009
• Risk factors for excessive or inadequate gestational weight gain among Hispanic women in a U.S.-Mexico border state. 29 Jun 2009
• Extreme weight change behaviours: are overweight and normal weight adolescents different, and does this vary over time? 29 Jun 2009
• Do schema processes mediate links between parenting and eating pathology? 29 Jun 2009
• The obesity paradox: body mass index and outcomes in patients undergoing nonbariatric general surgery. 29 Jun 2009
• Body weight and incident dementia. 29 Jun 2009
• Body dissatisfaction and the effects of perceptual exposure on body norms and ideals. 29 Jun 2009
• The influence of weight and height status on psychological problems of elementary schoolchildren through child behavior checklist analysis. 21 Jun 2009
• Genetic variation of FTO and TCF7L2 in premature adrenarche. 16 Jun 2009
• The presence of friends increases food intake in youth. 15 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Thinness'

Definition: A state of insufficient flesh on the body usually defined as having a body weight less than skeletal and physical standards. Depending on age, sex, and genetic background, a BODY MASS INDEX of less than 18.5 is considered as underweight.

Descriptor UI: D013851

Alternative terms: Thinness; Leanness; Underweight;

Related Mesh Headings: Emaciation;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C23.888.144.828; E01.370.600.115.100.160.120.828; G07.100.100.160.120.828;