nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld) is one of the aspects of metabolic syndrome (mets). due to the increase of mets in iran, this study was conducted to determine the prevalence of nafld, its potential predictors and their sex distribution in north of iran, amol.in 2008 this population based cross-sectional study included 5023 adult individuals who were randomly selected from amol healthca...

purpose: to investigate the relationship between neck circumferences and cardiovascular risk   factors in patients with acute coronary syndrome.   materials and methods: in a cross-sectional study, 100 patients with acute coronary syndrome   in kerman hospitals were assessed by measuring their neck circumference and risk factors of   cardiovascular disease. the data were analyzed by student t -...

OBJECTIVES Elevated risk factors for a number of chronic diseases have been identified in lorry drivers. Unhealthy lifestyle behaviours such as a lack of physical activity (PA) and high levels of sedentary behaviour (sitting) likely contribute to this elevated risk. This study behaviourally phenotyped UK lorry drivers' sedentary and non-sedentary behaviours during workdays and non-workdays and ...

abstract background and purpose: epicardial fat is the true visceral fat located around the heart, particularly around sub-epicardial coronary arteries that may locally interact and modulate the coronary arteries and myocardium through paracrine or vasocrine secretion of anti-inflammatory and proatherogenic cytokines. most previous studies have used echocardiography and reported controversial r...

Weight loss in metabolically healthy obese (MHO) subjects may result in deterioration of cardio-metabolic risk profile. We analyzed the effects of weight loss induced by laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB) on cardio-metabolic risk factors in MHO and insulin resistant obese (IRO) individuals. This study included 190 morbidly obese non-diabetic subjects. Obese individuals were stratifi...

BACKGROUND Rapidly transitioning societies are experiencing dramatic increases in obesity and cardio-metabolic risk; however, few prospective studies from developing countries have quantified these increases or described their joint relationships. METHODS We collected dietary, physical activity, demographic, anthropometric and cardio-metabolic risk factor data from 376 Guatemalan young adults...