PURPOSE This study was done to determine the effects of weight management program using self-efficacy in middle-aged obese women. The study also attempted to measure the effects of the program on the weight efficacy lifestyle, body composition, and depression. METHOD The research design of this study was a nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest design. The experimental group consisted o...

BACKGROUND Obesity is a well known risk factor for the development of metabolic abnormalities. However, some obese people are healthy and on the other hand some people with normal weight have adverse metabolic profile, therefore it can be assumed that there is a difference in physical characteristics amongst these people. The aim of this study was to establish whether there are somatotype diffe...

The rapid shift in populations towards a more obese phenotype in a relatively short period of time, less than half a century, has led to a marked increase in the incidence of overweight and obese women of childbearing age, which has raised specific issues for the management of pregnancy in obese women. The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey revealed that more than half of pregnant...

OBJECTIVE To estimate in a cohort of nulliparous women in labor at term whether cesarean delivery rates are increased in first and second stages of labor in overweight and obese women and whether being overweight or obese is an independent risk factor for cesarean delivery. METHODS Nulliparous women recruited to the prospective Screening for Pregnancy Endpoints study who went into labor after...

Plasma C-reactive protein (CRP) concentrations are increased in obese individuals. In this study, we examined the correlation between hsCRP and left ventricular mass (LV mass). Fourty five healthy obese women and fourty five healthy non obese women as the controls group were studied by echocardiography and hsCRP. There was no significant correlation between hsCRP and left ventricular mass in ob...

BACKGROUND Maternal obesity is a growing public health concern in Belgium as well as in other European countries and is now becoming the most common risk factor associated with pregnancy complications with impact on the health of the women and her offspring. At this moment, there is no specific management strategy for obese pregnant women and mothers, focusing on physical health and psychologic...