Obesity is an important modifiable risk factor for chronic diseases. While there is increasing focus on the role of dietary sugars, there remains a paucity of data establishing the association between sugar intake and obesity in the general public. The objective of this study was to investigate associations of estimated sugar intake with odds for obesity in a representative sample of English ad...

Background and Purpose—Studies have suggested differences in the association between obesity and ischemic stroke in black versus white populations. In this study, we explored ischemic stroke risk in relation to a variety of obesity measures by sex and race. Methods—Using data from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, we obtained information on body mass index, waist circumference, and...

OBJECTIVE To determine in a prospective population-based cohort study relationships between different measures of body mass and the incidence of severe knee and hip osteoarthritis defined as arthroplasty of knee or hip due to osteoarthritis. MATERIALS AND METHODS Body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, waist-hip ratio (WHR), weight and percentage of body fat (BF%) were measured at baselin...

AIM The aim was to compare body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), waist hip ratio (WHR), and waist height ratio (WHtR) to identify the best predictor of metabolic syndrome (MetS) among Qatari adult population. METHODS A cross-sectional survey from April 2011 to December 2012. Data was collected from 1552 participants followed by blood sampling. MetS was defined according to Third Ad...

BACKGROUND Measures of central adiposity are better predictors of adverse health events than BMI. Nonetheless, BMI is more widely used in health research. One reason for this may be the limited research supporting the self-measurement of waist and hip circumference. The lack of validity studies is particularly acute in Asia. The main objective was to establish the validity of self-measurement o...

background: the aim of this cross-sectional study was to investigate the relationship between body mass index (bmi), waist-to-hip ratio, and lipid parameters and serum thyroid-stimulating hormone (tsh) levels in healthy euthyroid individuals. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted between june 1st and july 20th, 2013, at bushehr university of medical sciences. one hundred forty euthy...

Endothelial dysfunction (ED) is an early pathophysiological change in patients with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) during prediabetes mellitus. This study was designed to test the hypothesis that exercise intervention contributes to the reversal of vascular endothelium-dependent dysfunction in middle-aged patients with IGT. Following exercise intervention, significant changes in endothelin (E...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) together with proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy ((1)H-MRS) to study the influence of acupuncture therapy on abdominal fat and hepatic fat content in obese children. DESIGN The design was a longitudinal, clinical intervention study of acupuncture therapy. SUBJECTS SUBJECTS were 10 healthy, obese children (age: ...

PURPOSE Central fat distribution is significantly associated with an increased cortisol levels. We hypothesized that men with metabolic syndrome have a higher serum cortisol levels compared to women. The purpose of this study was to compare serum cortisol levels, and its correlation with serum leptin levels, between men and women with and without metabolic syndrome. METHODS A cross sectional ...