 Adiposity
"Adiposity" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The amount of fat or lipid deposit at a site or an organ in the body, an indicator of body fat status.
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D050154
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E01.370.600.115.100.062.500 G02.111.130.134.500 G03.180.134.500 G07.100.049.134.500
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Adiposity" by people in this website by year, and whether "Adiposity" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2006 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2007 | 2 | 4 | 6 | | 2008 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2009 | 4 | 5 | 9 | | 2010 | 5 | 5 | 10 | | 2011 | 9 | 7 | 16 | | 2012 | 12 | 10 | 22 | | 2013 | 8 | 10 | 18 | | 2014 | 14 | 4 | 18 | | 2015 | 15 | 6 | 21 | | 2016 | 12 | 5 | 17 | | 2017 | 19 | 6 | 25 | | 2018 | 11 | 9 | 20 | | 2019 | 10 | 8 | 18 | | 2020 | 11 | 4 | 15 | | 2021 | 8 | 8 | 16 | | 2022 | 5 | 9 | 14 | | 2023 | 7 | 5 | 12 | | 2024 | 7 | 4 | 11 | | 2025 | 4 | 3 | 7 | | 2026 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Adiposity" by people in Profiles.
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Zuraikat FM, Scaccia SE, Cochran JA, Cheng B, Diaz KM, Creasy SA, Melanson EL, Shen W, Aggarwal B, Jelic S, St-Onge MP. Prolonged Short Sleep and Its Effect on Body Weight and Composition : A Pooled Analysis of Randomized Trials. Ann Intern Med. 2026 Aug; 179(8):1085-1093.
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Dodd K, Legget KT, Cornier MA, McHugo M, Wylie KP, Novick AM, Berman BD, Tregellas JR. Brain functional connectivity patterns associated with adiposity in schizophrenia. Psychiatry Res Neuroimaging. 2026 Oct; 362:112274.
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Francis EC, Boyle KE, Gyllenhammer LE, Dabelea D, Jansson T, Perng W. Placental insulin-mTOR and stress-inflammatory signaling patterns are associated with childhood adiposity. BMC Med. 2026 05 08; 24(1).
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Whooten RC, Rifas-Shiman SL, Aris IM, Perng W, Chavarro JE, Oken E, Hivert MF. Adolescent "Lean PCOS" Is Characterized by Higher Insulin Resistance and Adverse Adipokine Profile. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2026 Apr 22; 111(5):e1364-e1372.
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Harnois-Leblanc S, Rifas-Shiman SL, Switkowski KM, Perng W, Aris IM, Oken E, Young JG, Hivert MF. Estimating sex-specific population-level effects of limiting sugar-sweetened beverages or 100% fruit juices during childhood on insulin resistance, central adiposity, and glycemic outcomes in late adolescence. Am J Epidemiol. 2026 03 05; 195(3):850-858.
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James TT, Dowling NM, Ferrer Simó C, Salazar H, Van Hulle CA, Ennis G, Johnson AL, Wyman MF, McLester-Davis LWY, Gooding DC, Fischer B, Bouges S, Umucu E, Kara F, Kling JM, Manson JE, Brinton EA, Cedars MI, Lobo RA, Neal-Perry G, Santoro NF, Naftolin F, Harman SM, Pal L, Miller VM, Kantarci K, Gleason CE. Association between central adiposity and cognitive domain function in recently postmenopausal women: an analysis from the KEEPS-Cog substudy of the Kronos Early Estrogen Preventive Study. Menopause. 2026 Feb 01; 33(2):151-160.
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Moran M, Salmon K, Dhaliwal SK, Dabelea D, Perng W. Associations of Maternal Prenatal Inflammation With Child Adiposity: The Healthy Start Study. Pediatr Obes. 2026 Feb; 21(2):e70088.
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Dobbs TJ, Gutierrez L, Hu HH, Hunter KS, Fonseca B, Browne L, Winter D, Cree MG, Pyle L, Hills-Dunlap JL, Reusch JEB, Kelsey MM, Inge TH, Bjornstad P, Nadeau KJ. MRI Analysis of Cardiac Fat, Abdominal Adiposity and Cardiac Function After Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy in Youth With Type 2 Diabetes. Pediatr Obes. 2026 Jan; 21(1):e70068.
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Chen Y, Salmon K, Rifas-Shiman SL, Fitz VW, Kazemi M, Shifren J, Hivert MF, Oken E, Chavarro J, Perng W. Cardiometabolic trajectories across midlife in parous women with polycystic ovary syndrome. Am J Epidemiol. 2025 09 03; 194(9):2447-2456.
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Arehart CH, Lin M, Gibson RA, Raghavan S, Gignoux CR, Stanislawski MA, Grotzinger AD, Evans LM. Modeling the genomic architecture of adiposity and anthropometrics across the lifespan. Nat Commun. 2025 Aug 13; 16(1):7494.
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