BACKGROUND Perceptions of illness are important determinants of health behaviour. A better understanding of perceptions of obesity might allow more effective interventions that challenge these perceptions through lifestyle modification programs. Although several studies have evaluated causal attributions with regard to obesity, other domains of illness perception, such as the perceived conseque...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To explore the feasibility of combined aerobic and resistance training (CART) as a safe method of improving cardiometabolic health among cancer survivors.
. DESIGN Descriptive and longitudinal pilot study for exercise intervention.
. SETTING University campus in Los Angeles, California.
. SAMPLE A multiethnic population of cancer survivors (N = 11) was recruited by conv...

Around 50–60% of adults in western countries are either overweight or obese with more than 25% falling into the obese category [1]. The metabolic imbalance underlying obesity has fueled the prevalence of cardiometabolic syndrome— a constellation of interrelated risk factors of metabolic origins that together promote the increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and type II diabetes [2]. Th...

BACKGROUND Managed care organizations (MCOs) have access to treatment and diagnosis information from administrative claims data but generally have limited or no access to clinical information about laboratory values or biometric values such as body mass index (BMI) or waist circumference. Thus, MCOs are generally unable to identify overweight patients with cardiometabolic risk factors that put ...

OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to examine whether fatty liver and abdominal visceral adipose tissue (VAT) are jointly associated with cardiometabolic abnormalities. METHODS AND RESULTS Black participants were from the Jackson Heart Study (n=2882, 65% women) who underwent computed tomography. Fatty liver was measured by liver attenuation in Hounsfield units (LA), and VAT was quantified v...

OBJECTIVE US Hispanics/Latinos have high prevalence of obesity and related comorbidities. We compared overall and central obesity measures in associations with cardiometabolic outcomes among US Hispanics/Latinos. METHODS Multivariable regression assessed cross-sectional relationships of six obesity measures with cardiometabolic outcomes among 16,415 Hispanics/Latinos aged 18-74 years. RESUL...

OBJECTIVE To identify a body fat percentage (%BF) threshold related to an adverse cardiometabolic profile and its surrogate BMI cut-off point. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Two public schools in poor urban areas on the outskirts of Guatemala City. SUBJECTS A convenience sample of ninety-three healthy, prepubertal, Ladino children (aged 7-12 years). RESULTS Spearman correlations ...

Abnormal aldosterone physiology has been implicated in the pathogenesis of cardiometabolic diseases. Single aldosterone measurements capture only a limited range of aldosterone physiology. New methods of characterizing aldosterone physiology may provide a more comprehensive understanding of its relationship with cardiometabolic disease. We evaluated whether novel indices of aldosterone response...

Objective. The primary objective of the study was to estimate the rates of polypharmacy among individuals with multimorbidity defined as chronic condition clusters and examine their associations with polypharmacy. Methods. Cross-sectional analysis of 10,528 individuals of age above 21, with at least one physical condition in cardiometabolic (diabetes or heart disease or hypertension), musculosk...