OBJECTIVE Sociodemographic changes in Norway and other western industrialised countries, including family structure and an increasing proportion of cohabiting and divorced parents, might affect the prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity issues. We aimed to examine whether parental marital status was associated with general and abdominal obesity among children. We also sought to explore ...

Background: Developing obesity-related metabolic disturbances in spite of having normal weight is increasing in normal-weight people worldwide. This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between different types of snacking and risk of individual components of metabolic syndrome (MetS) in normal-weight adults. Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out on a randomized sample of 328 n...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have indicated that breakfast has a protective effect against obesity. The aim of this study was to describe the breakfast habits of the Spanish adult population and to assess the possible association between breakfast frequency and the presence of abdominal obesity, in a cross-sectional analysis of the ANIBES Study. METHODS A representative sample of 1655 Spanish ...

OBJECTIVE Abdominal visceral adiposity is related to risks for insulin resistance and metabolic perturbations. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography are advanced instruments that quantify abdominal adiposity; yet field use is constrained by their bulkiness and costliness. The purpose of this study is to develop prediction equations for total abdominal, subcutaneous, and visce...

PURPOSE This research compares the predictive value of the abdominal obesity indicator, waist circumference (WC), and the overall obesity indicator, body mass index (BMI), among men and women with regard to type 2 diabetes. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study used data collected from 4,400 households selected by a stratified multistage probability sampling method during the 2001 Korea National H...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association of total animal protein intake and protein derived from different dietary sources (meat; fish and shellfish; eggs; milk products) with global and abdominal obesity among adults in Luxembourg. DESIGN Binary logistic regression analysis was used to assess the relationship between animal protein intake (as a percentage of total energy intake) and global obesi...

AIM Worldwide obesity levels have increased unprecedentedly over the past couple of decades. Although the prevalence, trends and associated socio-economic factors of the condition have been extensively reported in Western populations, less is known regarding South Asian populations. METHODS A review of articles using Medline with combinations of the MeSH terms: 'Obesity', 'Overweight' and 'Ab...

CONTEXT Depression has been hypothesized to result in abdominal obesity through the accumulation of visceral fat. No large study has tested this hypothesis longitudinally. OBJECTIVE To examine whether depressive symptoms predict an increase in abdominal obesity in a large population-based sample of well-functioning older persons. DESIGN The Health, Aging, and Body Composition Study, an ongo...

Background: Obesity is one of the primary risk factors of metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes. Objectives: Considering that appropriate treatment of several metabolic syndrome disorders is a key for effectively decreasing of mortality, morbidity and disability and also because of the increasing prevalence of obesity in the past century, this study was conducted to detect the prevalence of ab...