Background: Menstruation is a nearly universal experience in women’s lives that are considered indicators of women’s health more generally. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between Menarche age and Body Mass Index in high school girl students in Mashhad city in the year 2011.Materials and Methods: This study was a cross-sectional study that carried on 407 high-school femal...

A relationship between blood pressure (BP) and obesity has been found in young adults, but no data are available for adolescents in Kuwait. 257 adolescent (11-19 years) participants were categorized into two groups according to their BMI; 48 nonobese (21 males: 43.7% and 27 females: 56.3%) with mean age of 15.61 ± 2.40 years and 209 obese (128 males: 61.25% and 81 females: 38.75%) with mean age...

Although obesity defined by a high body mass index (BMI) is generally associated with increased risk of renal cell carcinoma (RCC), low BMI has paradoxically been associated with increased tumor aggressiveness and poor prognosis. As anorexia-cachexia syndrome (ACS) is associated with decreased BMI and is frequently observed in patients with advanced RCC, the present study investigated the assoc...

The condition of elevated concentrations ‎triglyceride in ‎the blood is called hypertriglyceridemia, which ‎triggers the onset some physiological disorder. This study was carried out to find ‎correlation between body weight and ‎hypertriglyceridemia. ‎Out 518 cases, 342 individuals were underweight, with ‎mass index (BMI) values ≤18, while their mean ‎serum triglyceride level 172.4 ± 25.2mg/dl....

OBJECTIVE Determining agreement between adolescent students' self-perceived weight and body mass index (BMI) in Bogotá, Colombia. METHOD This was exploratory research in which a group of 321 12-18 year-old (mean=14.4; SD=1.6) adolescent students participated: 206 girls and 115 boys. Agreement between self-perceived weight (0=low, 1=adequate and 2=high) and BMI was estimated using Spearman's c...

introduction: inappropriate body composition represents impaired energy and nutrient intake and can be a risk factor for many diseases, especially for cardiovascular disease. different methods have been suggested for the estimation of body fat volume and its distribution. however, they may be either expensive or hazardous for some groups of patients. sonography is a very accessible technique, w...

INTRODUCTION The rise in noncommunicable diseases and their risk factors in developing countries may have changed or intensified the effect of parity on obesity. We aimed to assess this association in Peruvian women using data from a nationally representative survey. METHODS We used data from Peru's Demographic and Health Survey, 2012. Parity was defined as the number of children ever born to...

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...

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...

PURPOSE Recently, vitamin D insufficiency has increased and has been correlated to growth and puberty in children. This study was conducted to find the prevalence of subclinical vitamin D insufficiency and its influence on school-aged children in Korea. METHODS The subjects of this study were 397 children aged 7 to 15 years who had been tested for 25-OH vitamin D3 among the outpatients of the...