"Obesity, Abdominal" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A condition of having excess fat in the abdomen. Abdominal obesity is typically defined as waist circumferences of 40 inches or more in men and 35 inches or more in women. Abdominal obesity raises the risk of developing disorders, such as diabetes, hypertension and METABOLIC SYNDROME.
| Descriptor ID |
D056128
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C18.654.726.500.697 E01.370.600.115.100.160.120.699.500.249 G07.100.100.160.120.699.500.249
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| Concept/Terms |
Obesity, Abdominal- Obesity, Abdominal
- Abdominal Obesities
- Obesities, Abdominal
- Abdominal Obesity
- Central Obesity
- Central Obesities
- Obesities, Central
- Obesity, Central
Obesity, Visceral- Obesity, Visceral
- Visceral Obesity
- Obesities, Visceral
- Visceral Obesities
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2012 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2013 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2014 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Obesity, Abdominal" by people in Profiles.
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Impact of Visceral Obesity on Clinical Outcome and Quality of Life for Patients with Multiple Myeloma: A Secondary Data Analysis of STaMINA (BMT CTN 0702) Trial. Transplant Cell Ther. 2024 07; 30(7):698.e1-698.e10.
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Association of Puberty Stage and Weight Status with Cardiometabolic Risk in Children and Adolescents Living on the Texas-Mexico Border. Metab Syndr Relat Disord. 2022 10; 20(8):440-450.
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Overall and central obesity and prostate cancer risk in African men. Cancer Causes Control. 2022 Feb; 33(2):223-239.
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Molecular Signature of Multisystem Cardiometabolic Stress and Its Association With Prognosis. JAMA Cardiol. 2020 10 01; 5(10):1144-1153.
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Data anomalies and apparent reporting errors in 'Randomized controlled trial testing weight loss and abdominal obesity outcomes of moxibustion'. Biomed Eng Online. 2020 Feb 18; 19(1):11.
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What's New in Understanding the Risk Associated With Body Size and Shape?: Pears, Apples, and Olives on Toothpicks. JAMA Netw Open. 2019 07 03; 2(7):e197336.
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Changes in truncal obesity and fat distribution predict arterial health. J Clin Lipidol. 2017 Nov - Dec; 11(6):1354-1360.e3.
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Development and validation of a rapid and robust method to determine visceral adipose tissue volume using computed tomography images. PLoS One. 2017; 12(8):e0183515.
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Physical Activity and Adiposity-related Inflammation: The MESA. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2017 05; 49(5):915-921.
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Generalization and fine mapping of European ancestry-based central adiposity variants in African ancestry populations. Int J Obes (Lond). 2017 02; 41(2):324-331.