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Genetic predisposition to obesity, restrained eating and changes in body weight: a population-based prospective study
There is no consensus on whether cognitive control over food intake (that is, restrained eating) is helpful, merely ineffective or actually harmful in weight management. We examined the interplay between genet...
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Open AccessEarly-stage breast cancer is not associated with the risk of marital dissolution in a large prospective study of women
As breast cancer and its treatment are likely to interfere with traditional expectations of womanhood, it may affect marital stability.
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Genetic and Environmental Correlations Between Body Mass Index and Waist Circumference in China: The Qingdao Adolescent Twin Study
We aimed to analyze how genetic and environmental factors account for variations in body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC) and their mutual correlation in Chinese children. We measured BMI and WC in 5...
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Erratum: Modifiable environmental influences on body mass index shared by young adult brothers
Correction to: International Journal of Obesity (2013) 37, 211–215; doi: 10.1038/ijo.2012.151 Since the advance online publication of this article, the authors have noticed an error in the results section of t...
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Modifiable environmental influences on body mass index shared by young adult brothers
Twin and adoption studies suggest that family environment has little, if any, influence on body mass index (BMI) in adulthood. We investigated the hypothesis that the differences in the years of birth between ...
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Telomere length and cardiovascular risk in hypertensive patients with left ventricular hypertrophy: the LIFE study
Short telomeres are associated with aging and age-related diseases. Our aim was to determine whether short leukocyte telomere length is associated with risk factors and cardiovascular diseases in a high-risk h...
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Leisure-time physical activity and type 2 diabetes during a 28 year follow-up in twins
The study aimed to investigate whether baseline physical activity protects against the occurrence of type 2 diabetes during a 28 year follow-up, after controlling for childhood environment and genetic predispo...
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Evidence that BMI and type 2 diabetes share only a minor fraction of genetic variance: a follow-up study of 23,585 monozygotic and dizygotic twins from the Finnish Twin Cohort Study
We investigated whether BMI predicts type 2 diabetes in twins and to what extent that is explained by common genetic factors.
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The genetic and environmental influences on childhood obesity: a systematic review of twin and adoption studies
In this systematic review, we aimed to collect together all previous twin and adoption studies on childhood and adolescent obesity up to the age of 18 years. Using several sources, we identified nine twin and ...
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Multicenter dizygotic twin cohort study confirms two linkage susceptibility loci for body mass index at 3q29 and 7q36 and identifies three further potential novel loci
To identify common loci and potential genetic variants affecting body mass index (BMI, kg m−2) in study populations originating from Europe.
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Genetic and environmental effects on body mass index during adolescence: a prospective study among Finnish twins
To study genetic and environmental factors affecting body mass index (BMI) and BMI phenotypic correlations across adolescence.
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Physical activity reduces the influence of genetic effects on BMI and waist circumference: a study in young adult twins
Both obesity and exercise behavior are influenced by genetic and environmental factors. However, whether obesity and physical inactivity share the same genetic vs environmental etiology has rarely been studied...
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Genetic influences on the difference in variability of height, weight and body mass index between Caucasian and East Asian adolescent twins
Twin studies are useful for investigating the causes of trait variation between as well as within a population. The goals of the present study were two-fold: First, we aimed to compare the total phenotypic, ge...
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Coffee consumption, serum γ-glutamyltransferase and risk of type II diabetes
To study the joint association of coffee consumption and serum γ-glutamyltransferase (GGT) levels on the risk of develo** type II diabetes.
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Genetic and environmental factors in relative weight from birth to age 18: The Swedish Young Male Twins Study
To investigate the contributions of genetic and environmental factors to the development of relative weight during the growth period.
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Socio-economic status and abdominal obesity among Finnish adults from 1992 to 2002
To examine 10-year changes in waist circumference (WC) and identify socio-economic groups having higher WC than expected by their body mass index (BMI).
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The effects of physical activity and body mass index on cardiovascular, cancer and all-cause mortality among 47 212 middle-aged Finnish men and women
To examine the association of physical activity and body mass index (BMI), and their combined effect, with the risk of total, cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cancer mortality.
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Intentional weight loss and smoking in young adults
OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether current smoking and lifetime snuff use are associated with a lifetime history of major (≥5 kg) intentional weight loss in young adults, and to examine the dependence of this asso...
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Trends in obesity and energy supply in the WHO MONICA Project
OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between secular trends in energy supply and body mass index (BMI) among several countries.
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The association between thinness and socio-economic disadvantage, health indicators, and adverse health behaviour: a study of 28 000 Finnish men and women
OBJECTIVE: To examine how thinness is associated with indicators of socio-economic disadvantage, health-related behaviours, and health indicators including mortality.
