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Esposito K, Giugliano F, Di Palo C, Giugliano G, Marfella R, D'Andrea F, D'Armiento M, Giugliano D (2004). Effect of lifestyle changes on erectile dysfunction in obese men: A randomized controlled trial. JAMA291 (24): 2978–84. PMID15213209. DOI: 10.1001/jama.291.24.2978.
Hunskaar S (2008). A systematic review of overweight and obesity as risk factors and targets for clinical intervention for urinary incontinence in women. Neurourol. Urodyn.27 (8): 749–57. PMID18951445. DOI: 10.1002/nau.20635.
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Dentali F, Squizzato A, Ageno W (July 2009). The metabolic syndrome as a risk factor for venous and arterial thrombosis. Semin. Thromb. Hemost.35 (5): 451–7. PMID19739035. DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1234140.
Yusuf S, Hawken S, Ounpuu S, Dans T, Avezum A, Lanas F, McQueen M, Budaj A, Pais P, Varigos J, Lisheng L, INTERHEART Study Investigators. (2004). Effect of potentially modifiable risk factors associated with myocardial infarction in 52 countries (the INTERHEART study): Case-control study. Lancet364 (9438): 937–52. PMID15364185. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(04)17018-9.
Darvall KA, Sam RC, Silverman SH, Bradbury AW, Adam DJ (February 2007). Obesity and thrombosis. Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg33 (2): 223–33. PMID17185009. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejvs.2006.10.006.
Yosipovitch G, DeVore A, Dawn A (June 2007). Obesity and the skin: skin physiology and skin manifestations of obesity. J. Am. Acad. Dermatol.56 (6): 901–16; quiz 917–20. PMID17504714. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2006.12.004.
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Calle EE, Rodriguez C, Walker-Thurmond K, Thun MJ (April 2003). Overweight, obesity, and mortality from cancer in a prospectively studied cohort of U.S. adults. N. Engl. J. Med.348 (17): 1625–38. PMID12711737. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa021423.
Choi HK, Atkinson K, Karlson EW, Curhan G (April 2005). Obesity, weight change, hypertension, diuretic use, and risk of gout in men: the health professionals follow-up study. Arch. Intern. Med.165 (7): 742–8. PMID15824292. DOI: 10.1001/archinte.165.7.742.
Tukker A, Visscher T, Picavet H (April 2008). Overweight and health problems of the lower extremities: osteoarthritis, pain and disability. Public Health Nutr12 (3): 1–10. PMID18426630. DOI: 10.1017/S1368980008002103.
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Hunskaar S (2008). A systematic review of overweight and obesity as risk factors and targets for clinical intervention for urinary incontinence in women. Neurourol. Urodyn.27 (8): 749–57. PMID18951445. DOI: 10.1002/nau.20635.
Ejerblad E, Fored CM, Lindblad P, Fryzek J, McLaughlin JK, Nyrén O (2006). Obesity and risk for chronic renal failure. J. Am. Soc. Nephrol.17 (6): 1695–702. PMID16641153. DOI: 10.1681/ASN.2005060638.
Romero-Corral A, Montori VM, Somers VK (2006). Association of bodyweight with total mortality and with cardiovascular events in coronary artery disease: A systematic review of cohort studies. Lancet368 (9536): 666–78. PMID16920472. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(06)69251-9.
Oreopoulos A, Padwal R, Norris CM, Mullen JC, Pretorius V, Kalantar-Zadeh K (February 2008). Effect of obesity on short- and long-term mortality postcoronary revascularization: A meta-analysis. Obesity (Silver Spring)16 (2): 442–50. PMID18239657. DOI: 10.1038/oby.2007.36.
Sacks G, Swinburn B, Lawrence M (January 2009). Obesity Policy Action framework and analysis grids for a comprehensive policy approach to reducing obesity. Obes Rev10 (1): 76–86. PMID18761640. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-789X.2008.00524.x.
Flynn MA, McNeil DA, Maloff B (February 2006). Reducing obesity and related chronic disease risk in children and youth: a synthesis of evidence with 'best practice' recommendations. Obes Rev7 Suppl 1: 7–66. PMID16371076. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-789X.2006.00242.x.
Rosenheck R (November 2008). Fast food consumption and increased caloric intake: a systematic review of a trajectory towards weight gain and obesity risk. Obes Rev9 (6): 535–47. PMID18346099. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-789X.2008.00477.x.
Ness-Abramof R, Apovian CM (February 2006). Diet modification for treatment and prevention of obesity. Endocrine29 (1): 5–9. PMID16622287. DOI: 10.1385/ENDO:29:1:135.
Salmon J, Timperio A (2007). Prevalence, trends and environmental influences on child and youth physical activity. Med Sport Sci Medicine and Sport Science 50: 183–99. PMID17387258. DOI: 10.1159/000101391.
Borodulin K, Laatikainen T, Juolevi A, Jousilahti P (June 2008). Thirty-year trends of physical activity in relation to age, calendar time and birth cohort in Finnish adults. Eur J Public Health18 (3): 339–44. PMID17875578. DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckm092.
Gortmaker SL, Must A, Sobol AM, Peterson K, Colditz GA, Dietz WH (April 1996). Television viewing as a cause of increasing obesity among children in the United States, 1986–1990. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med150 (4): 356–62. PMID8634729. DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.1996.02170290022003.
Vioque J, Torres A, Quiles J (December 2000). Time spent watching television, sleep duration and obesity in adults living in Valencia, Spain. Int. J. Obes. Relat. Metab. Disord.24 (12): 1683–8. PMID11126224. DOI: 10.1038/sj.ijo.0801434.
Kanazawa M, Yoshiike N, Osaka T, Numba Y, Zimmet P, Inoue S (December 2002). Criteria and classification of obesity in Japan and Asia-Oceania. Asia Pac J Clin Nutr11 Suppl 8: S732–S737. PMID12534701. DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-6047.11.s8.19.x.
Bei-Fan Z, Cooperative Meta-Analysis Group of Working Group on Obesity in China (December 2002). Predictive values of body mass index and waist circumference for risk factors of certain related diseases in Chinese adults: study on optimal cut-off points of body mass index and waist circumference in Chinese adults. Asia Pac J Clin Nutr11 Suppl 8: S685–93. PMID12534691. DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-6047.11.s8.9.x.
Lau DC, Douketis JD, Morrison KM, Hramiak IM, Sharma AM, Ur E (April 2007). 2006 Canadian clinical practice guidelines on the management and prevention of obesity in adults and children summary. CMAJ176 (8): S1–13. PMID17420481. PMC1839777. DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.061409.
Walley AJ, Asher JE, Froguel P (June 2009). The genetic contribution to non-syndromic human obesity. Nat. Rev. Genet.10 (7): 431–42. PMID19506576. DOI: 10.1038/nrg2594.
Wells, J. C. K. (2009). "Thrift: A guide to thrifty genes, thrifty phenotypes and thrifty norms". International Journal of Obesity33 (12): 1331–1338. doi:10.1038/ijo.2009.175. PMID19752875.
Wells, J. C. K. (2011). "The thrifty phenotype: An adaptation in growth or metabolism?". American Journal of Human Biology23 (1): 65–75. doi:10.1002/ajhb.21100. PMID21082685.
Zametkin AJ, Zoon CK, Klein HW, Munson S (February 2004). Psychiatric aspects of child and adolescent obesity: a review of the past 10 years. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry43 (2): 134–50. PMID14726719. DOI: 10.1097/00004583-200402000-00008.
DiBaise JK, Zhang H, Crowell MD, Krajmalnik-Brown R, Decker GA, Rittmann BE (April 2008). Gut microbiota and its possible relationship with obesity. Mayo Clinic proceedings. Mayo Clinic83 (4): 460–9. PMID18380992. DOI: 10.4065/83.4.460.
Goodman E, Adler NE, Daniels SR, Morrison JA, Slap GB, Dolan LM (2003). Impact of objective and subjective social status on obesity in a biracial cohort of adolescents. Obesity Reviews11 (8): 1018–26. PMID12917508. DOI: 10.1038/oby.2003.140.
Weng HH, Bastian LA, Taylor DH, Moser BK, Ostbye T (2004). Number of children associated with obesity in middle-aged women and men: results from the health and retirement study. J Women's Health (Larchmt)13 (1): 85–91. PMID15006281. DOI: 10.1089/154099904322836492.
Bellows-Riecken KH, Rhodes RE (February 2008). A birth of inactivity? A review of physical activity and parenthood. Prev Med46 (2): 99–110. PMID17919713. DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2007.08.003.
Hamann A, Matthaei S (1996). Regulation of energy balance by leptin. Exp. Clin. Endocrinol. Diabetes104 (4): 293–300. PMID8886745. DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1211457.
(en) Imaz I, Martínez-Cervell C, García-Alvarez EE, Sendra-Gutiérrez JM, González-Enríquez J (July 2008). Safety and effectiveness of the intragastric balloon for obesity. A meta-analysis. Obes Surg18 (7): 841–6. PMID18459025. DOI: 10.1007/s11695-007-9331-8.
Shick SM, Wing RR, Klem ML, McGuire MT, Hill JO, Seagle H (April 1998). Persons successful at long-term weight loss and maintenance continue to consume a low-energy, low-fat diet. J Am Diet Assoc98 (4): 408–13. PMID9550162. DOI: 10.1016/S0002-8223(98)00093-5.
Bays, HE (2011 Mar). Lorcaserin: drug profile and illustrative model of the regulatory challenges of weight-loss drug development. Expert review of cardiovascular therapy9 (3): 265–77. PMID21438803. DOI: 10.1586/erc.10.22.
Bays HE, Gadde KM (December 2011). Phentermine/topiramate for weight reduction and treatment of adverse metabolic consequences in obesity. Drugs Today47 (12): 903–14. PMID22348915. DOI: 10.1358/dot.2011.47.12.1718738.
Sjöström L, Narbro K, Sjöström CD (August 2007). Effects of bariatric surgery on mortality in Swedish obese subjects. N. Engl. J. Med.357 (8): 741–52. PMID17715408. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa066254.
Johansson E, Bockerman P, Kiiskinen U, Heliovaara M (2009). Obesity and labour market success in Finland: The difference between having a high BMI and being fat. Economics and Human Biology7 (1): 36–45. PMID19249259. DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2009.01.008.
Ostbye T, Dement JM, Krause KM (2007). Obesity and workers' compensation: Results from the Duke Health and Safety Surveillance System. Arch. Intern. Med.167 (8): 766–73. PMID17452538. DOI: 10.1001/archinte.167.8.766.
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(en) Lily-Rygh Glen, Big Trouble - Are eating disorders the Lavender Menace of the fat acceptance movement?. Bitch Magazine ('Feminist Response to Pop Culture') (13 februari 2008). Gearchiveerd op 26 december 2012. “Some of the hushed voices surrounding the issue may be due to the relative youth of the movement, which is still finding its footing and setting priorities. And yet it is precisely because this movement is just now gaining real momentum that the time is ripe for having these conversations.”