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- Epidemiology
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2. Epidemiology of obesity
- Prof. Jacob Seidell
- Etiology and Causes
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3. Metabolic, adipose tissue and muscle predictors of obesity
- Prof. Ian Macdonald
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4. Neural control of food intake and energy balance
- Prof. Hans-Rudolf Berthoud
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6. Dietary determinants of obesity
- Prof. Arne Astrup
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7. Physical inactivity as a determinant of obesity
- Prof. Wim Saris
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8. Environmental causes of obesity: sociocultural, built environment and economic factors
- Prof. Shiriki Kumanyika
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9. The developmental origins of obesity
- Prof. David Barker
- Consequences of Obesity
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10. Obesity, dyslipoproteinemia and inflammation
- Prof. Robert Eckel
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11. Pathophysiology and management of obesity related hypertension
- Prof. Arya Sharma
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12. Disorders of overeating
- Prof. Albert Stunkard
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13. Obesity, weight loss and health-related quality of life
- Prof. Aila Rissanen
- Dr. Jarmo Kaukua
- Treatment Options
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14. Lifestyle modification for weight control
- Prof. Thomas Wadden
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15. Bariatric / obesity surgery
- Prof. Henry Buchwald
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16. Can obesity be prevented in the current obesogenic environment?
- Prof. Boyd Swinburn
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17. Pharmacotherapy for obesity: why it is needed
- Prof. Joe Proietto
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18. Pharmacotherapy for obesity: hunger suppressors
- Prof. Joe Proietto
- Latest Developments in the Field
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19. Body composition
- Dr. Steven Heymsfield
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20. Adipose tissue metabolism and obesity
- Dr. Max Lafontan
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21. Obesity, present and future therapies
- Prof. Sir Stephen Bloom
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22. Energy expenditure in the lean and obese
- Prof. Dale Schoeller
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23. Obesity and adiponectin
- Prof. Philipp Scherer
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24. Ectopic fat: causes, consequences and treatment
- Prof. Steven Smith
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25. Adipose-immune interactions in obesity
- Dr. Vishwa Dixit
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26. Health benefits of intentional weight loss
- Prof. Xavier Pi-Sunyer
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27. Childhood obesity: implications for current and future health
- Prof. Peter T. Katzmarzyk
- Archived Lectures - These lectures may not cover the latest advances in the field
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29. Gastrointestinal peptides and food intake regulation
- Prof. Sir Stephen Bloom
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30. Obesity and mortality: questions and controversy
- Prof. David Allison
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31. Obesity, diabetes and the cluster of the metabolic syndrome
- Prof. Peter Wilson
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33. Health economics of obesity: new insights
- Dr. Anne Wolf
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34. Bariatric surgery: techniques and mechanisms of action
- Prof. Walter Pories
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35. Childhood obesity: implications for future health
- Prof. Peter T. Katzmarzyk
Printable Handouts
Navigable Slide Index
- Introduction
- Recent trend in obesity
- Objectives
- Requirments for assesing prevalence of obesity
- Countries that have updated information on obesity
- What can go wrong?
- BMI distribution curves
- Some important determinants of obesity (Europe)
- Prevalence of obesity by age and sex (UK)
- Obesity and education in adults (Holland)
- Overweight in Dutch children by parental education
- How are time-trends studied?
- Example of two different estimates of obesity (US)
- Prevalence of obesity in US adults
- Other methological assumptions
- Obesity prevalence in adults
- Prevalence of overweight in 2-19 year old children
- Prevalence of overweight in adult men (US)
- Prevakence of overweight in adult women (US)
- Prevalence of adult obesity in the UK
- Long-term time-trends in adult obesity prevalence
- Overweight prevalence (Holland)
- Obesity prevalence (Holland)
- Overweight prevalence map (Holland) 1981-89
- Overweight prevalence map (Holland) 1990-95
- Overweight prevalence map (Holland) 1999-2003
- Time-trends is adult obesity (Holland)
- Time-trends is adult obesity (eastern Finland)
- Time-trends is adult obesity (Germany)
- Obesity in the WHO-MONICA study
- WHO-MONICA :central\eastern Europe (women)
- WHO-MONICA :central\eastern Europe (men)
- Obesity in the Baltic states
- WHO-MONICA: souhtern Europe (women)
- Overweight and obesity in Australian males
- Long-term trend of overweight and obesity (China)
- Chinese overweight and obesity prevalence by age
- Obesity in European adults
- Global obesity - top 30
- Childhood obesity prevalence - introduction
- IOTF BMI cut points for choldren and adolescents
- Prevalence of overweight and obesity (Holland)
- Trends in overweight children 1970-2000
- Overweight children: trends in last three decades
- Cut points used in US
- Overweight prevalence in 6-19 year old children
- Overweight and obesity prevalence: 10 year olds
- Prevalence and trends of overweight children (UK)
- Conclusions (1)
- Conclusions (2)
Topics Covered
- Assessment of the national prevalence of obesity
- Availability of good, updated data
- Problems with the data
- Important determinants of obesity in Europe: age, sex and social class (education/income)
- Obesity prevalence in adults, adolescents and children
- Time-trends in obesity
- Obesity in the WHO MONICA Study
- Obesity prevalence varies widely within and between countries
- The prevalence of childhood obesity is increasing at an alarming rate
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Talk Citation
Seidell, J. (2007, October 1). Epidemiology of obesity [Video file]. In The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved March 21, 2025, from https://doi.org/10.69645/WPFU9799.Export Citation (RIS)
Publication History
- Published on October 1, 2007
Financial Disclosures
- Prof. Jacob Seidell has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.