BACKGROUND Excess bodyweight is a major public health concern. However, few worldwide comparative analyses of long-term trends of body-mass index (BMI) have been done, and none have used recent national health examination surveys. We estimated worldwide trends in population mean BMI. METHODS We estimated trends and their uncertainties of mean BMI for adults 20 years and older in 199 countries...

background: now a day’s, high risk habits like smoking, drinking alcohol, stress and sedentary life prone to develop diabetes mellitus leading to cardiovascular diseases. material and methods: these are common factors in medical students hence we have taken up this study. students of ss institute of medical science and research center, davanagere, karnataka, were assessed with their consent for...

BACKGROUND Overweight and obesity is a serious problem worldwide related to cardiovascular and other diseases. Personality traits are associated with the abnormal body mass indices (BMIs) indicative of overweight and obesity. However, the links between personality traits and BMI have been little studied in Korea. METHODS We evaluated the association between personality traits and BMI in men a...

BACKGROUND Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGB) can dramatically ameliorate type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in morbidly obese patients. However, there is little evidence supporting the effectiveness of LRYGB in low body mass index (BMI) patients. The study was designed to evaluate the safety and results of LRYGB for achieving T2DM remission in patients with BMI in the range of 25-35 kg...

INTRODUCTION To find out the association of Body Mass Index (BMI) with chronic complications of diabetes mellitus. METHODS A descriptive study was carried out on 8401 diabetic patients registered in the Diabetic Centre, Teaching Hospital of Jaffna, Sri Lanka from May 2009 to November 2013. BMI was categorised according to WHO Southeast Asia classification. Complications were identified from t...

OBJECTIVE We investigated the relationships between body weight (BWt) and metabolic syndrome (MS) risk factors to elucidate the effect of BWt (?BWt) change and body mass index (BMI) on these factors in the Japanese population. METHODS Data were collected on MS-related parameters measured during two annual examinations of 16,640 men (mean age: 41.7±11.6 years) and 10,184 women (mean age: 45.0±...

Widening inequalities in mean Body Mass Index (BMI) between social and economic groups are well documented. However, whether changes in mean BMI are followed by changes in dispersion (or variance) and whether these inequalities are also occurring within social groups or across individuals remain understudied. In addition, a substantial body of literature exists on the global increase in mean BM...

Although high body mass index (BMI) appears to confer a survival advantage in hemodialysis patients, the association of BMI with mortality in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) patients is uncertain. We enrolled incident CAPD patients and BMI was categorized according to World Health Organization classification for Asian population. BMI at baseline and one year after the initiatio...

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between the body mass index (BMI) and dental development. Methods: The dental ages of 196 children were calculated according to Demirjian’s method. The chronological age, weight, and height were recorded. Dental development was defined as dental age minus chronological age. Children were classified into three groups accord...