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Obesity: a chronic, relapsing, multifactorial, neurobehavioral disease, wherein an increase in body fat promotes adipose tissue dysfunction and abnormal fat mass physical forces, resulting in adverse metabolic, biomechanical, and psychosocial health consequences. There are a number of methods to quantitatively define and categorize obesity, such as body mass index, abdominal circumference, and body fat percentage.
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OCT 05, 2023 | 9:00 AM
Learning Objectives: 1. Explain how obesity impacts the survival of pediatric patients with specific subtypes of leukemia. 2. Describe how obesity impacts T-cell function in pediatric popula...
OCT 19, 2022 | 9:00 AM
At the global level, mobility is above pre-COVID levels, and mask use is at the lowest level since mid-March 2020. The move away from social distancing combined with the spread of the BA.5 O...
JUN 30, 2022 | 9:00 AM
Date: June 30, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 6:00pm (CEST) Subclinical acute rejection (SubAR) is a significant risk for kidney transplant recipients, affecting 1 in 4 patients. Ea...
JUN 30, 2022 | 9:00 AM
Date: June 30, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 6:00pm (CEST) Subclinical acute rejection (SubAR) is a significant risk for kidney transplant recipients, affecting 1 in 4 patients. Ea...
JUN 02, 2022 | 8:30 AM
Date: June 02, 2022 Time: 8:30am (PST), 10:30am (CST), 11:30am (EST) Cardiac biomarkers like high-sensitivity Troponin I might play a major role in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases....
MAY 04, 2022 | 9:00 AM
The IHME COVID-19 Projection Model has been two years in the making, and this talk will share details on how it works and what it says about our current point in the COVID pandemic as well a...
FEB 23, 2022 | 12:00 PM
The prevalence of NASH in global populations continues to expand in conjunction with the ongoing obesity and diabetes epidemic. Over the next decade, the disease is projected to become the l...
OCT 13, 2021 | 7:30 AM
We use COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and mortality data and a deterministic SEIR (susceptible, exposed, infectious and recovered) compartmental framework to model possible trajectories o...
