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Capacité mentale
Capacité mentale : Questions médicales fréquentes
Termes MeSH sélectionnés :
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Soutien social
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Accidents domestiques
Sécurité
Relations interpersonnelles
Conflits familiaux
Maladies chroniques
Comorbidité
Facteurs de risque
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Tabagisme
Santé cognitive
Inactivité physique
Santé mentale
Traumatismes crâniens
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Troubles de l'humeur
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Expert en Médecine, Optimisation des Parcours de Soins et Révision Médicale
Validation scientifique effectuée le 21/02/2025
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2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; foy.jane@gmail.com.
Publications dans "Capacité mentale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, New York; and.
Publications dans "Capacité mentale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Community Care of North Carolina, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Publications dans "Capacité mentale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Publications dans "Capacité mentale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York; cmg9004@med.cornell.edu.
Publications dans "Capacité mentale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire.
Publications dans "Capacité mentale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
The American Board of Pediatrics, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; and.
Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts.
Publications dans "Capacité mentale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Office of Medical Services, Region Skane, Malmö, Sweden.
Department of Clinical Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Publications dans "Capacité mentale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Office of Medical Services, Region Skane, Malmö, Sweden.
Department of Clinical Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, IKVL, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Publications dans "Capacité mentale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
School of Nursing and Midwifery, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC 3086, Australia.
Victorian Tuberculosis Program, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia.
Publications dans "Capacité mentale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Rural Health, University of South Australia, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia.
Publications dans "Capacité mentale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
School of Nursing and Midwifery, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC 3086, Australia.
Publications dans "Capacité mentale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
WHO Collaborating Centre for Mental Health Promotion, Prevention and Policy, Mental Health Team, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.
Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland.
Publications dans "Capacité mentale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
WHO Collaborating Centre for Mental Health Promotion, Prevention and Policy, Mental Health Team, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.
Publications dans "Capacité mentale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland.
Publications dans "Capacité mentale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland.
Central Finland Health Care District, Jyväskylä, Finland.
Publications dans "Capacité mentale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
Publications dans "Capacité mentale" :
1 publication dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Lentis Psychiatric institute, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Publications dans "Capacité mentale" :
1 publication dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Lentis Psychiatric institute, Groningen, The Netherlands.
University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Rob Giel Research Center, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Publications dans "Capacité mentale" :
1 publication dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Addiction care North Netherlands, Groningen, The Netherlands.
NHL Stenden Hogeschool, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands.
Publications dans "Capacité mentale" :
The practice of large volume liposuction, when executed by board-certified plastic surgeons using a variety of energy-assisted liposuction devices, has been substantiated as a secure procedure, yieldi...
The growing prevalence of overweight and obesity is an urgent problem not only in adults but also in children in both developed and developing countries....
We investigated the relationship between childhood weight status and academic achievement across sexes and different school subjects in Norway....
We used data from the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study (MoBa), which includes genetic data (N = 13,648, 8-year-old children). We employed within-family mendelian randomization, using a ...
Contrary to most previous findings, we observed that overweight status (including obesity) has more detrimental effects on reading achievement in boys than in girls; the test scores of boys with overw...
Previous obesity prevention studies have mainly targeted girls, based on the assumption that the obesity penalty is greater for girls. Our findings highlight that particular attention to boys with ove...
Much of the increase in the prevalence of overweight and obesity has been in developing countries with a history of famines and malnutrition. This paper is the first to examine overweight among adult ...
The aim of this study was to describe homocysteine concentrations in overweight and obese children and adolescents and relate them to blood pressure levels, renal function, and insulin resistance....
This is a cross-sectional and observational study with 64 overweight children and adolescents (mean age: 11.6±3.5 years) in outpatient follow-up. The following parameters were evaluated: body mass ind...
The mean body mass index z-score was 2.9±1.1. The mean homocysteine concentrations were 8.6±2.2 μmol/L (10th and 90th percentiles: 6.6 and 11.2 μmol/L, respectively), with no difference when compared ...
Homocysteine concentrations in overweight children and adolescents (mean 8.6±2.2 μmol/L) were not associated with body mass index z-score, blood pressure, renal function, and insulin resistance....
Overweight and obesity are associated with multiple cancers. We quantified the burden of cancer attributable to overweight and obesity in Italy....
We estimated sex- and cancer site-specific population attributable fractions (PAFs) combining relative risks (from recent meta-analyses) with national obesity prevalence data (from a large sample surv...
3.6% of cancers in men and 4.0% in women in Italy were attributable to overweight and obesity, corresponding, respectively, to over 6900 and 7200 diagnoses in 2020. Attributable deaths were over 3600 ...
The cancer burden associated with overweight and obesity in Italy is considerable, but smaller compared to other high income countries, likely because of the lower prevalence of overweight and obesity...
This study aimed to investigate the association between overweight and obesity in postmenopausal women and different aspects related to health such as quality of life, physical activity, sleep quality...
An observational cross-sectional study was carried out during 2021-2022 in Spain in postmenopausal women. Health-related quality of life was assessed using the 12-item short-form survey (SF-12). The P...
A total of 395 postmenopausal women participated: 64.6% (...
Obesity in postmenopausal women negatively affects perceived quality of life, sleep quality, physical activity, the development of cardiovascular problems and pelvic floor-related problems....
Overweight in youth is influenced by genes and environment. Gene-environment interaction (G×E) has been demonstrated in twin studies and recent developments in genetics allow for studying G×E using in...
Latent class growth models of overweight were fitted using data from the TRacking Adolescents' Individual Lives Survey (n = 2720). A polygenic score for body mass index (BMI) was derived using summary...
A three-class model of developmental pathways of overweight fitted the data best ("non-overweight", "adolescent-onset overweight", and "persistent overweight"). The polygenic score for BMI and socioec...
Higher genetic predisposition increased the risk of developing overweight during adolescence and young adulthood and was associated with an earlier age at onset. We did not find that genetic predispos...
Obesity is a major health problem worldwide as it can lead to high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and insulin resistance. The prevalence of overweight and obesity is increasing world...
To assess the effects of calcium supplementation on weight loss in individuals living with overweight or obesity....
We searched CENTRAL, MEDLINE, Embase, LILACS (Latin American and Caribbean Health Science Information database), and two clinical trials registries. The date of the last search of all databases (excep...
We included randomised controlled trials evaluating the effect of calcium in participants with overweight or obesity of any age or gender. We excluded studies in participants with absorption problems....
We used standard methodological procedures expected by Cochrane. Our primary outcomes were body weight, health-related quality of life, and adverse events. Our secondary outcomes were anthropometric m...
We found 18 studies that evaluated the effect of calcium compared to placebo or control, with a total of 1873 randomised participants (950 participants in the calcium supplementation groups and 923 in...
Calcium supplementation for eight weeks to 24 months may result in little to no difference in body weight in people with overweight or obesity. The current evidence is of low certainty, due to concern...
To evaluate whether a fish oil and/or probiotics intervention in pregnant women with overweight or obesity would influence the tendency of their 24-month-old children to become overweight and alter th...
Women (n = 439) were double-blindly randomized into 4 intervention groups: fish oil+placebo, probiotics+placebo, probiotics+fish oil, and placebo+placebo (fish oil: 1.9 g docosahexaenoic acid and 0.22...
Probiotics+placebo [weight-for-height% adj. Odds ratio (OR) = 0.36, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.14-0.95] and probiotics+fish oil [weight-for-age standard deviation score (SD-score) adj. OR = 0.22...
The administration of probiotics solely and in combination with fish oil during pregnancy to women with overweight or obesity lowered the overweight odds of their 24-month-old children....