background: there is paucity of information on the prevalence of hypertension and its risk factors among bank employees at global level. objective: to assess the prevalence and risk factors of hypertension among bank employees in puducherry, india. methods: a cross-sectional study was conducted on 192 (128 male and 64 female) bank employees from 12 nationalized banks in urban puducherry, india....

background: obesity is growing rapidly in our country. nutrition is an important associate of obesity. the aim of this study was to determine the association between fruit and vegetable intake with the waist circumference and the body mass index (bmi) among young female university students.   methods: this cross sectional study was conducted on 236 healthy female university students aged betwee...

background: neural tube defects (ntds) including spina bifida and anencephaly are the second most common birth defects with 2.8 per 1000 births in northern iran. objectives: this study was conducted to determine the risk factors of neural tube defects in gorgan, north of iran. patients and methods: this hospital-based, case-control study was carried out on all ntd-affected pregnancies (n = 59) ...

background: the children’s body composition status is an important indicator of health condition evaluated through their body mass index (bmi). we aimed to provide standardized percentile curves of bmi in a population of iranian children and adolescents. we assessed the nationally representative of sample populations from tehran. materials and methods: a total sample of 14,865 children aged 7-1...

overweight/obesity and depression are common among women especially in the elderly and can lead to unfavorable outcomes. we aimed to determine the association of overweight with depression and also to find any correlation of depression with some anthropometric indices in old women. a total of 94 depressed elderly women were compared with 99 non-depressed controls. the structured diagnostic inte...

increases in body mass index (bmi) are reported to influence asthma response to treatment. the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between bmi and response to treatment in a group of patients that were referred for asthma control. effectiveness measurements in this analysis included percentage of changes in forced volume in 1 second (fev1), forced volume capacity (fvc), fev1/f...

conclusions the current study revealed that a significant difference existed in hgs among the low, medium, and high bmi groups. a positive correlation existed between hgs and weight and height, while sex was the most significant factor affecting hgs. these findings can serve as a reference to assess hgs prediction, whereby the sex effect should be considered. results the results showed that the...

conclusions the results showed that, compared to participants with normal weights, physiological and thermal perceptual responses were higher in overweight participants. therefore, overweight individuals should avoid hot/dry weather conditions to decrease the amount of heat strain. results in both groups, oral temperature, heart rate, and thermal perceptual responses increased during heat expos...

OBJECTIVE To determine the relationship between paternal body mass index (BMI), embryo development and pregnancy, and live birth outcomes after assisted reproductive technology (ART). DESIGN Retrospective analysis of ART cycles. SETTING Major assisted reproduction center. PATIENT(S) Three hundred five couples undergoing ART in a private fertility clinic. INTERVENTION(S) No intervention ...

Human fathers are heavily involved in the rearing of children around the world. Early evolutionary explanations focused on the greater need of human children and mothers compared to other species and the consequent increased benefits available to investing fathers and pairbonded husbands. Contrary to this hypothesis, research suggests that the impact of men's care on the survivorship and physic...