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This article is from the Research Concerning Big Folks FAQ, by sharon@ecs.ox.ac.uk (Sharon Curtis) with numerous contributions by others.

A2) Various Illnesses/Conditions and Fat People

[Blo+] Bloom, Yano, Curb, Reed & MacLean:
"Smoking cessation and incidence of coronary heart disease"
CVD Epidemiology Newsletter (AHA), 1987, vol. 41, p. 36

[CS]
"Gallstones."
from Clinical Symposia, 1988, vol. 40, no. 2

[Des] J.P.Deslypere
"Obesity and Cancer"
Metabolism, Sept, 1995, vol. 44, no. 9, supp. 3, pp. 24--27
Obesity is a risk factor for some forms of cancer, but there
are also other risk factors, such as distribution of fat,
hormone levels (fat people have more estrogen), a high-fat
low-fibre diet. They also take a look at the risk of breast
cancer, and it's difficult to see if obesity plays a role as
there are many other risk factors.
Obese people get less lung cancer.

[DGU] J.Dequeker, P.Goris and R.Uytterhoeven:
"Osteoporosis and osteoarthritis (osteoarthrosis). Anthropometric
distinctions"
Journal of the American Medical Association,
March 18th, 1983, vol. 249, no. 11, pp. 1448--1451
27 women with osteoporosis and 25 women with general
arthritis were studied. The former were shorter, more slender
and had less fat and muscle, whereas the latter were fatter
with more muscle mass and strength.

[Egu+] G.Egusa, W.F.Beltz, S.M.Grundy, B.V.Howard
"Influence of obesity on the metabolism of apolipoprotein B in humans"
The Journal of Clinical Investigation, August 1985, vol 76, no. 2,
pp. 596--603
Does have some interesting individual statistics that show
how much metabolism can vary from person to person.

[EN] P.Ernsberger and D.O.Nelson:
"Refeeding hypertension in dietary obesity"
American Journal of Physiology, 1988, vol. 254, pp. R47--R55

[Fel+] Felman et al.:
"Obesity and knee osteoarthritis: The Framingham Study"
Annals of Internal Medicine, July 1st 1988, vol. 109, no. 1, pp. 18--24
The objective was to determine whether obesity is a possible
cause for knee osteoarthritis. They found an increased risk
for men in the heaviest quintile, and an increased risk for
women in the heaviest and second-heaviest quintiles. They
conclude that obesity or as yet unknown factors associated
with obesity are risk factors for knee osteoarthritis.

[GSH] S.M.Garn, T.V.Sullivan and V.M.Hawthorne
"Effect of skinfold levels on lipids and blood pressure in younger
and older adults"
Journal of Gerontology, 1988, vol.43, no.6, pp. M170--4
They studied 5507 white participants, specifically looking at
three groups: older adolescents, younger adults and older adults.
In all three groups, they found that the fatter people (measured by
skinfold measurements) had higher blood pressure levels (systolic and
diastolic), and also higher in serum cholesterol and serum
triglycerides.

[HG] E.C. Hammond and L. Garfinkel:
"Coronary heart disease, stroke, and anortic aneurysm: Factors in etiology"
Archives of Environmental Health, vol. 19, pp. 167--182

[Keys] A.Keys:
"Overweight, obesity, coronary heart disease, and mortality: the
W.O. Atwater Memorial Lecture"
Progress in Clinical Biology Research, 1981, vol. 67, pp. 31--46

[Lis+] Lissner, Odell, D'Agostino, et al:
"Framingham Heart Study"
New England Journal of Medicine, 1991, vol. 324, pp. 1839--1844

[Man+] Manson, Colditz, Stampfer, Willett, Rosner, Monson, Speizer & Hennekenes:
"A prospective study of obesity and risk of coronary heart disease
in women"
New England Journal of Medicine, 1990, vol. 322, pp. 882--889

[PLKB] Pettitt et al.:
"Mortality as a function of obesity and diabetes mellitus"
American Journal of Epidemiology 1981, vol.115, no.3, pp. 359--366
2197 Pima Indians were studied. For men, they had the highest
mortality risk at BMI more than 40, but BMI had no effect at lower
BMIs; diabetes was not related to mortality.
For women, death rates were not consistently related to fatness,
although diabetics had a higher risk than non-diabetics.

[RBSJ] E. Ravussin, B. Burnand, Y. Schutz, E. Jequier:
"Twenty-four-hour energy expenditure and resting metabolic rate in
obese, moderately obese, and control subjects"
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition March 1982
vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 566--573
Examined 30 subjects either lean, moderately obese and obese,
and compared resting metabolic rates and 24-hr energy expenditures.
Obese people had higher resting rates and 24-hr energy expenditures.
So large people don't just have a greater 24-hr EE just because
they have to move more weight around, they use more energy when
sitting still too, the study suggests this is due to more muscle
in the obese.

[RTP] C. Ribot, F. Tremollieres, J. M. Pouilles:
"The effect of obesity on postmenopausal bone loss and the risk of
osteoporosis"
Advances in Nutritional Research, 1994, vol. 9, pp. 257--271

[Sto+] C. Stout et al,:
"Unusually Low Incidence of Death from Myocardial Infarction..."
Journal of the American Medical Association, 1964, vol. 188, pp. 845--849

[Su+] Su et al.:
"Effect of weight loss on blood pressure and insulin resistance in
normotensive and hypertensive obese individuals"
American Journal of Hypertension, 1995, vol.8, no.11, pp. 1067--1071
22 people, 11 with high blood pressure were studied. Over
3 months both groups lost 8kg on average. Blood pressure
and insulin resistance was lowered in both groups.

[VVVV] J.L.van Saase, J.P.Vandenbroucke, L.k.van Romunde & H.A.Valkenburg
"Osteoarthritis and obesity in the general population. A relationship
calling for an explanation."
Journal of Rheumatology, July 1988, vol. 15, no. 7, pp. 1152--1158
20 joints and groups of joints, weight-bearing and
non-weight-bearing were investigated in 1071 men and 1097
women in the Netherlands. Osteoarthritis was positively
associated with obesity in weight-bearing and non-weight-bearing
joints.

[WCBP] R.B.Wallace, C.Rost, L.F.Burmeister, P.R.Pomrehn
"Cancer incidence in humans: relationship to plasma lipids and
relative weight"
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 1982, vol.68, no.6, pp.915--918
Of a group of 5565 people in a cardiovascular screening program,
131 had cancer, and were matched individually to non-cancer
people. The cancer patients had lower mean weight.

 

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