نتایج جستجو برای: abdominal obesity

تعداد نتایج: 224432  

Background and Objectives: Obesity is associated with cardiovascular risk factors and may increase the prevalence of these factors. This study aimed to assess predictive power of the abdominal volume index compared to other anthropometric indices and its association with the risk of cardiovascular  diseases.  Materials & Methods: This cross-sectional study hired 300 men and non-pregnant women....

Journal: :JAMA 2013
Jared P Reis Catherine M Loria Cora E Lewis Tiffany M Powell-Wiley Gina S Wei J Jeffrey Carr James G Terry Kiang Liu

IMPORTANCE Younger individuals are experiencing a greater cumulative exposure to excess adiposity over their lifetime. However, few studies have determined the consequences of long-term obesity. OBJECTIVE To examine whether the duration of overall and abdominal obesity was associated with the presence and 10-year progression of coronary artery calcification (CAC), a subclinical predictor of c...

Introduction: Obesity as one of the most important public health problems is growing worldwide and it is associated with many non-communicable diseases. The aim of this study was investigating the prevalence of general obesity and central obesity and their related factors. Methods: The data of this research were extracted from a population health survey of Yazd province, Iran (YaHS), which was...

Introdution: Since limited data are available in regard of the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and obesity among children, our aim was to examine the association between SES and obesity among children. Methods: This cross-sectional study was done in Farokh Shahr among children aged 6-12y in 2009. 380 students were recruited through multi-stage cluster random sampling method from...

2013
Yuanyuan Xiao Naiqing Zhao Hao Wang Jie Zhang Qingfang He Danting Su Ming Zhao Lixin Wang Xinwei Zhang Ruying Hu Min Yu Zhen Ye

BACKGROUND Existing studies which regarding to the association between individual socioeconomic status (SES) and obesity are still scarce in developing countries. The major aim of this study is to estimate such association in an adult population which was drawn from an economically prosperous province of China. METHODS Study population was determined by multilevel randomized sampling. Educati...

2017
Paul Sebo François R. Herrmann Dagmar M. Haller

BACKGROUND We recently showed that abdominal obesity measurements (waist and hip circumference, waist-to-hip ratio) were inaccurate when performed by general practitioners (GPs). We hypothesise that measurement error could be even higher in overweight and obese patients due to difficulty in locating anatomical landmarks. We aimed to estimate GPs' measurement error of general (weight, height and...

2017
Shou-Wu Lee Han-Chung Lien Teng-Yu Lee Chun-Fang Tung Hong-Zen Yeh Chi-Sen Chang

Background/Aims The aim of this study was to investigate the associations between obesity and erosive esophagitis (EE) or Barrett's esophagus (BE) in a Chinese population. Methods Data from subjects were retrospectively collected from 2006 to 2009. Individuals with BE were identified and age- and sex-matched at a 1:2 ratio with normal esophagocardial junction and EE patients. The subjects wer...

2009
Farhad Hosseinpanah Maryam Barzin Parvin Sarbakhsh Eskandary Parvin Mirmiran Fereidoun Azizi

BACKGROUND Considering the increasing trend of obesity reported in current data, this study was conducted to examine trends of obesity and abdominal obesity among Tehranian adults during a median follow-up of 6.6 years. METHODS Height and weight of 4,402 adults, aged 20 years and over, participants of the Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study (TLGS), were measured in 1999-2001(phase I) and again in ...

2013
Ming-Juan Jin Bing-Bing Chen Ying-Ying Mao Yi-Min Zhu Yun-Xian Yu Yin-Yin Wu Ming-Wu Zhang Shan-Kuan Zhu Kun Chen

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study is to describe the prevalence of overweight, general obesity, and abdominal obesity and examine their associations with socioeconomic status in a rural Chinese adult population. METHODS This cross-sectional study was performed on 15,236 participants ≥ 35 years of age (6,313 men [41.4%] and 8,923 women [58.6%]). Each participant's weight, height, waist circ...

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