Comorbidities of Obesity

Modifying Effect of Body Mass Index on Survival in Elderly Type 2 Diabetic Patients: Hong Kong Diabetes Registry
Cheung KK, Jiang G, Lee JS, Luk AO, Kong AP, Ozaki R, Ting RZ, Ma RC, Chow FC, Chan JC, So WY
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 2016; 17(3):276.e15-22

Changes in body weight from young adulthood to middle age and its association with blood pressure and hypertension: A cross-sectional study in Hong Kong Chinese women
Xie YJ, Ho SC, Su X, Liu ZM
Journal of the American Heart Association 2016; 5(1).pii:e002361

Associations of cardiorespiratory fitness, physical activity, and obesity with metabolic syndrome in Hong Kong Chinese midlife women
Ruby Yu, Forrest Yau, Suzzane C Ho, Jean Woo
BMC Public Health 2013; 13:614

Associations of uric acid and gamma-glutamyltransferase (GGT) with obesity and components of metabolic syndrome in children and adolescents
Kong AP, Choi KC, Ho CS, Chan MH, Ozaki R, Chan CW, Chan JC
Pediatric Obesity 2013; 8(5):351-357

Association between KCNQ1 genetic variants and obesity in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes
W Yu, RC Ma, Hu C, So WY, Zhang R, Wang C, Tam CH, Ho JS, Lu J, Jiang F, Tang S, Ng MC, Bao Y,, Xiang K, Jia W, Chan JCN
Diabetologia 2012; 55(10):2655-2659

Associations of sleep duration with obesity and serum lipid profile in children and adolescents
Kong AP, Wing YK, Choi KC, Li AM, Ko GT, Ma RC, Tong PC, Ho CS< Chan MH, Ng MH, Lau J, Chan JC
Sleep Medicine 2011; 12(7):659-665

High rate of increased carotid intima-media thickness and atherosclerotic plaques in Chinese asymptomatic subjects with central obesity
Ko GT, Chow CC, Leung G, Au-Yeung TW, Chan WB, Lam CS, Lo M, Lee KK
The International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging 2011; 27(6):833-841

Implication of genetic variants near NEGR1, SEC16B, TMEM18, ETV5/DGKG, GNPDA2, LIN7C/BDNF, MTCH2, BCDIN3D/FAIM2, SH2B1, FTO, MC4R, and KCTD15 with obesity and type 2 diabetes in 7705 Chinese
Ng MC, Tam CH, So WY, Ho JS, Chan AW, Lee HM, Wang Y, Lam VK, Chan JC, Ma RC
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 2010; 95(5):2418-2425

Is Height Associated With Cardiovascular Risk in Chinese Adults?
Schooling CM, Thomas GN, Leung GM, Ho SY, Janus ED, Lam TH
Epidemiology 2007; 18(2):274-278

Body mass index, physical activity and erectile dysfunction: an U-shaped relationship from population-based study
Cheng JY, Ng EM
International Journal of Obesity 2007; 31(10):1571-1578

Mesenteric fat thickness is an independent determinant of metabolic syndrome and identifies subjects with increased carotid intima-media thickness
Liu KH, Chan YL, Chan WB, Chan JC, Chu CW
Diabetes Care 2006; 29(2):379-384

Prediction of cardiovascular and total mortality in Chinese type 2 diabetic patients by the WHO definition for the metabolic syndrome
Ko GTC, So WY, Chan NN, Chan WB, Tong PCY, Li J, Yeung V, Chow CC, Ozaki R, Ma RCW, Cockram CS, Chan JCN
Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism 2006; 8(1):94-104

Obstructive sleep apnea and the metabolic syndrome in community-based Chinese adults in Hong Kong
Lam JC, Lam B, Lam CL, Fong D, Wang JK, Tse HF, Lam KS, Ip MS
Respiratory Medicine 2006; 100(6):980-987

Effects of body mass index, plasma glucose and cholesterol levels on isolated systolic hypertension
Ko GT, Cockram CS, Chow CC, Chan WB, So WY, Ma R, Osaki R, Chan JC.
International Journal of Cardiology 2005;101(3):429-433

Impact of obesity and body fat distribution on cardiovascular risk factors in Hong Kong Chinese
Thomas GN, Ho SY, Lam KS, Janus ED, Hedley AJ, Lam TH; Hong Kong Cardiovascular Risk Factor Prevalence Study Steering Committee
Obesity Research 2004; 12(11):1805-1813

Effects of obesity on the conversion from normal glucose tolerance to diabetes in Hong Kong Chinese
Ko GT, Chan JC, Chow CC, Yeung VT, Chan WB, So WY, Cockram CS
Obesity Research 2004; 12(6):889-895

High prevalence of insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome in overweight/obese preadolescent Hong Kong Chinese children aged 9-12 years
Sung RY, Tong PC, Yu CW, Lau PW, Mok GT, Yam MC, Lam PK, Chan JC
Diabetes Care 2003; 26(1):250-251

Obesity and cardiovascular risk factors in Hong Kong Chinese
Lee ZS, Critchley JA, Ko GT, Anderson PJ, Thomas GN, Young RP, Chan TY, Cockram CS, Tomlinson B, Chan JC
Obesity Reviews 2002; 3(3):173-182

Obesity, insulin resistance and isolated low high-density-lipoprotein cholesterol in Chinese subjects
Ko GT, Cockram CS, Woo J, Chan JC
Diabet Med. 2001 ; 18(8):663-666

Urinary epinephrine and norepinephrine interrelations with obesity, insulin, and the metabolic syndrome in Hong Kong Chinese
Lee ZS, Critchley JA, Tomlinson B, Young RP, Thomas GN, Cockram CS, Chan TY, Chan JC
Metabolism 2001; 50(2):135-143

Prediction of hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidaemia or albuminuria using simple anthropometric indexes in Hong Kong Chinese
Ko GT, Chan JC, Cockram CS, Woo J
International Journal of Obesity and Related Metabolic Disorders 1999; 23:1136-1142