Background: Obesity is a major health problem in many countries such as Iran. This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of overweight and obesity their associated risk factors Bandare-Kong, Hormozgan, Materials Methods: cross-sectional survey included 3921 participants Bandare-Kong Cohort Study (BKNCD). Their baseline data were used for analysis. General was defined body mass index (BMI)≥30 k...

BACKGROUND Obesity is an important risk factor for cardiovascular and metabolic diseases and could affect mortality rates. Body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) have been used to classify obesity, and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) has recently emerged as a discriminator of cardiovascular disease. Sasang constitution (SC) is a kind of well-known traditional Korean medicine: Tae-eumin (TE...

OBJECTIVE To explore general practice staff views of managing childhood obesity in primary care. DESIGN A qualitative study to elicit the views of clinical and non-clinical general practice staff on managing childhood obesity. SETTING Interviews were conducted at 30 general practices across England. These practices were interviewed as part of the Quality and Outcomes Framework Pilot Study. ...

OBJECTIVES To assess the prevalence of obesity in the United Kingdom military and general population and the extent to which self-reported data underestimates obesity. METHODS Height and weight data from military personnel (measured data: 2,073 men, 308 women; self-reported data: 6,374 men, 609 women) and from the general population (measured data: 1,121 men, 1,396 women; self-reported data: ...

INTRODUCTION Data from the World Health Organization (WHO) demonstrates an increasing prevalence of obesity in Western countries. This study investigates the influence of obesity on the mode of delivery and the occurrence of hypoglycemia in newborns. MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective analysis of all deliveries at the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics of the University of Lübeck, Ger...

Observational studies increasingly emphasize the impact of general parenting on the development of childhood overweight and obesity. The aim of the current literature review was to provide an overview of interventions addressing general parenting in order to prevent or treat childhood obesity. Electronic literature databases were systematically searched for relevant studies. Seven studies were ...

Individually, both obesity and headache are conditions associated with a substantial personal and societal impact. Recent data support that obesity is comorbid with headache in general and migraine specifically, as well as with certain secondary headache conditions such as idiopathic intracranial hypertension. In the current manuscript, we first briefly review the epidemiology of obesity and co...

BACKGROUND Diabetes and obesity seem to be partly overlapping risk factors for the development of obesity-related cancer (mainly breast, prostate and colorectal cancer) in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM). In the general population, women have a lower risk for obesity-related cancer compared to men. Previous studies involving cardiovascular disease have shown that T2DM eliminates a female a...