Background: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is one of the most common medical complications in pregnancy, which is associated with many serious consequences for mother and her fetus. Body mass index (BMI) in pregnant women is considered as one of most effective factor for the incidence of GDM. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between BMI at pregnant women in the early...

OBJECTIVES To examine the interrelationships between obesity and various cardiovascular risk factors, and to investigate the relative importance of insulin and obesity in their associations with various pathophysiologies. DESIGN Cross-sectional clinic-based study. SETTING Medical clinics at a university teaching hospital, Shatin, Hong Kong. PARTICIPANTS A heterogeneous cohort of 767 Hong ...

our aim was to evaluate the association of metabolic syndrome (mets) and its components with body fat percentage (bfp) and anthropometric indicesin10 to 18year old adolescents.this was a cross-sectional study conducted on 134 tehranian adolescents, aged 10 to 18 years (66 boys and 68 girls) in 2007. the mets definition proposed by cook et al. was used. logistic regression was used to determine ...

BACKGROUND Some chronic diseases have been associated to an impairment of nutritional status. OBJECTIVE To analyze nutritional status and its relation to dietary intake, disease activity and treatment in rheumatoid arthritis. PATIENTS AND METHODS We have included 93 patients (43 men and 50 women) and 93 age- and sex-matched healthy controls. The assessment of nutritional status included ant...

conclusions in this study we showed that eft, measured by echocardiography is higher in subjects with ai when compared to healthy controls. epicardial fat thickness had the best independent correlation with ai in multiple logistic regression analysis. incidentaloma is also associated with increased left ventricular mass index and cimt. adrenal incidentaloma patients may show early cardiac chang...

Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the body composition and dietary habits patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) and
 compare them healthy controls.
 Material Methods: 64 participants (RA n=32 mean age: 55.2±1.5 years; Healthy Group 54.5±1.5 years)
 were included in study. Body compositions (body mass index, fat ratio, skeletal muscle mass, index)
 evaluated ana...

The authors' aim in this study was to analyze the association of nocturia with overweight and obesity. In 2003-2004, a questionnaire was mailed to 6,000 randomly selected Finns aged 18-79 years who were identified from the Finnish Population Register Centre. Information on nocturia was collected through questionnaires using the Danish Prostatic Symptom Score and the American Urological Associat...

To determine the body composition differences across age, 133 men with chronic spinal cord injury (SCI) (66 with tetraplegia, 67 with paraplegia) were compared with an age-, height-, and ethnicity-matched able-bodied male reference population (n = 100) using two different dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry densitometers. The effects of duration of injury, level, and completeness of lesion were an...

background: in most armies, clothes, equipment and weapons are designed according to the physical characteristics and anthropometric data of soldiers. objective: to study the anthropometric characteristics of iranian army force and their changes over recent years. methods: 12 635 iranian military personnel aged between 18 and 30 years with tenure of <10 years who were normally engaged in educat...