(1) Glucagon concentrations are higher in corpulent rats than lean rats at 3 months of age and decrease progressively with age.
(2) The traditionally larger meals of the day (lunch and dinner) represented higher proportions of daily intake in fat and obese children; the energy value of breakfast and afternoon snack was inversely related to corpulence.
(3) IBAT weights, IBAT:BW ratios, and IBAT cell number of corpulent greater than lean, and were greater than with SU than CS diet in both phenotypes.
(4) In the corpulent rat, both lipase- and chymotrypsinogen-specific activities and both the specific activities and the content of amylase or trypsinogen were lower than those of lean littermates.
(5) About one-third of our postmastectomy patients are corpulent, middle-aged women with "Mediterranean" body structures.
(6) The present studies were designed to estimate fetal weight on the basis of the thesis that the factors which determine body weight include the fetal bone and the amount of fetal soft tissue, i.e., fetal corpulence.
(7) Phenotype effects (corpulent greater than lean) were present for fat pad weight, adipocyte number, and adipocyte lipid content in the dorsal (DOR) and retroperitoneal (RP) WAT depots.
(8) Final body weights of corpulent rats were 2-3 times those of their lean littermates, and were greater with SU than MS diet in both phenotypes.
(9) Corpulent rats as compared to their lean littermates are obese, hyperlipidemic, and severely hyperinsulinemic, and show an age-dependent loss of glucose tolerance.
(10) This congenic strain of the Lister and Albany rat is normotensive, corpulent, and hyperlipidemic when homozygous for the corpulent (cp) gene derived from the Koletsky strain.
(11) Exercise caused a modest but significant increase in both total and high density lipoprotein cholesterol in both corpulent and lean rats.
(12) Restricting caloric intake significantly reduced the body weight gain of the obese rats but had little effect on the extent of their corpulence.
(13) There was a statistically significant association of carbohydrate metabolism disturbance with increasing age and corpulence and, in women, with hyperuricaemia and morphological alterations of the liver.
(14) The corpulence categories (non-obese, mildly obese and massively obese) were defined on the basis of NHANES II.
(15) Sedentary corpulent rats showed a rapid rise in systolic pressure from 107 mmHg at 7 weeks to 128 mmHg at 11 weeks.
(16) There were more D cells per islet in corpulent than in lean rats up to 9 mo.
(17) The effects of D-fenfluramine were studied in the JCR:LA-corpulent rat that is grossly obese, hyperphagic, hyperlipidaemic, hyperinsulinaemic and atherosclerosis-prone.
(18) Ethanol consumption was associated with elevated fasting glucose concentrations in both lean and corpulent rats and a strong decrease in fasting insulin levels and pancreatic B-cell volume density in the hyperinsulinemic corpulent rats.
(19) The activity in the heart increased with age and was higher in the corpulent rats than in the lean at all ages.
(20) Acute cold exposure (5 degrees C) resulted in decreases in rectal but not colonic temperature in lean rats fed both diets, but resulted in lower temperatures at both sites in corpulent rats, with the greatest decreases being observed in the starch fed corpulent rats.
Overweight
Definition:
(n.) Weight over and above what is required by law or custom.
(n.) Superabundance of weight; preponderance.
(a.) Overweighing; excessive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Doctors have blamed rising levels of type 2 diabetes on the growing number of overweight and obese adults.
(2) 55% of the patients had overweight, which positively correlated to the occurrence of pathological glucose tolerance.
(3) We performed a stepwise discriminant analysis first with only casual and end exercise systolic and diastolic BP, then after introducing age, overweight (Lorentz's formula), duration of hypertension, Sokoloff index and cholesterolemia.
(4) Consequently, we measured pharyngeal area and its lung volume-related changes (LVRC) from functional residual capacity (FRC) to residual volume (RV) in overweight females, 14 with OSA and 14 without OSA.
(5) Numerous experts note that women, more frequently than men, are overweight and have greater difficulty adhering to reducing diets.
(6) The effect of benfluorex on hyperinsulinism in overweight patients with glucose intolerance or mildly increased fasting blood glucose levels is valuable in these high vascular risk patients.
(7) In February last year the BBC was forced to apologise to the Mexican ambassador after a joke made by the three presenters that the nation's cars were like the people "lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat".
(8) The situation is even worse in London, with almost a quarter of children starting primary school and over a third of year six children overweight or obese.
(9) The purpose of this investigation was to determine the accuracy of dietary-intake information of normal-weight vs overweight parents in their reports of their children's food intake.
(10) Using the body mass index, defined as weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters (kilogram per square meter), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey estimated that 26%, or 34 million, adult Americans aged 20 to 75 were overweight.
(11) The results also revealed that stunting, wasting and stunting together and overweight were more common in young workers who were both anaemic and had evidence of parasitic infection than those who were anaemic only or had parasitic infection only.
(12) In type 2 diabetics contradictory results have been obtained, probably related to varying degrees of body overweight in the patients investigated.
(13) So you're likely to be refused treatment if you're a smoker, overweight (such as having a body mass index above 30) or already have a child (adopted or biological).
(14) Overweight was reduced from 118% to 30.4% of normal body weight (Broca Index).
(15) The Coag Reform Council – which is to be disbanded at the end of this month – painted a mixed picture of health progress over the past five years, with life expectancy lengthening (to 79.9 years for men and 84.3 years for women) but the proportion of those who are obese or overweight is increasing (to 62.7%).
(16) 9.41pm BST Dodgers 0 - Cardinals 0, bottom of the 2nd The "demeaning euphemism for overweight" Matt Adams lines out to Adrian Gonzalez for the second out of the inning.
(17) The stunted and wasted child is likely to be at greater risk than a similarly stunted but normally proportioned or overweight child--both could be underweight for age.
(18) Fifty-two (41 females, 11 males) overweight patients, mean body mass index (BMI) = 29.3, were treated for 6 months in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel group design.
(19) The subjects were characterized as normal weight restrained, normal weight unrestrained, and overweight restrained.
(20) "The research we undertook for this campaign showed that only 6% of people understood the links between obesity, overweight and adverse health effects," said chief medical officer, Sir Liam Donaldson.