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Background: Obesity is a complex, chronic, stigmatized disease whereby abnormal or excess body fat may impair health or increase the risk of medical complications, and can reduce quality of life and ...

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Behaviour categorized as “incivility” includes aggressive or dismissive language and actions or inactions that degrade working relationships1. Prevalence varies and is likely underreported owing to ...

Who gets eosinophilic esophagitis? While eosinophilic esophagitis affects people of all ages, higher rates are seen among those aged 5–14 years and 20–45 years, and the prevalence is higher in cold ...

Box 1: Evidence used in this review. We drew on the international guideline on the management of polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) published by the European Society of Human Reproduction and ...