BACKGROUND Obese women have lower levels of physical activity than nonobese women, but it is unclear what drives these differences. METHODS Mixed methods were used to understand why obese women have lower physical activity levels. Findings from focus groups with obese white women age 50 and older (N = 19) were used to develop psychosocial items for an online survey of white women (N = 195). A...

This study aimed to compare the resting energy expenditure (REE) of white and non-white severely obese Brazilian women. REE was examined in 83 severely obese Brazilian women (n = 58 white and 25 non-white) with mean (+/- SD) age 42.99 +/- 11.35 and body mass index 46.88 +/- 6.22 kg/m(2) who were candidates for gastric bypass surgery. Body composition was assessed by air displacement plethysmogr...

Psychosocial factors among overweight, obese, and morbidly obese women in Delhi, India were examined. A follow-up survey was conducted of 325 ever-married women aged 20-54 years, systematically selected from 1998-99 National Family Health Survey samples, who were re-interviewed after 4 years in 2003. Information on day-to-day problems, body image dissatisfaction, sexual dissatisfaction, and sti...

OBJECTIVE Quitting smoking was associated with an undesirable weight gain. Both, cigarette smoking and obesity were accompanied by subclinical systemic inflammation. This may cause unfavourable changes in (plasma) adipokine concentration. The aim of the present study was to establish the influence of moderate cigarette smoking on the concentration of the adipokines leptin and adiponectin and th...

BACKGROUND Obesity is increasing among primipara women. We aimed to describe the association between body mass index (BMI) during early-pregnancy and duration of labour in nulliparous women. METHODS Retrospective observational cohort study of 1885 nulliparous women with a single cephalic presentation from 37 0/7 to 42 6/7 weeks of completed gestation and spontaneous or induced labour at Nords...

BACKGROUND It is unclear whether obesity unaccompanied by metabolic abnormalities is associated with increased cardiovascular disease risk across racial and ethnic subgroups. METHODS AND RESULTS We identified 14 364 postmenopausal women from the Women's Health Initiative who had data on fasting serum lipids and serum glucose and no history of cardiovascular disease or diabetes at baseline. We...

1. Plasma pancreatic polypeptide, plasma catecholamine, blood glucose, plasma insulin and plasma peptide YY concentrations were studied to assess differences between eight formerly obese and eight never-obese control women during 25 min of sham-feeding (with the sight and smell of an English breakfast) and for 5 h after they had ingested the meal (3514 kJ, 50% fat, 35% carbohydrate). The post-o...

BACKGROUND Studies on the behavior of respiratory muscle strength (RMS) in morbidly obese patients have found conflicting results. OBJECTIVES To evaluate RMS in morbidly obese women and to compare the results by using different predictive equations. METHOD This is a cross-sectional study that recruited 30 morbidly obese women and a control group of 30 normal-weight women. The subjects under...

No research has compared expressions of weight bias across different subgroups of obese individuals. This study compared attitudes toward and beliefs about obesity in women with and without binge eating disorder (BED) and examined whether these attitudes are related to psychological factors. Fifty obese women with BED were compared with an age- and body mass index (BMI)-matched group of 50 obes...

The present study was aimed to evaluate the role of leptin in the etiology of type 2 diabetes mellitus in women with respect to obesity and their menopausal status. 595 pre and postmenopausal women were recruited for the study and out of them, 40 preand 40 postmenopausal women were selected for biochemical analysis. Each group was divided into four categories as; non-obese control, obese contro...