Background: Obesity is one of the highly emerging chronic disease. It a major health concern now days. The BMI more than 35% adults were in overweight category 2008 but values are reported to be exceeded. study aimed assess relationship between body mass index and periodontitis. Study Design: cross-sectional with statistical approach, conducted at Karachi medical dental college, Material Method...

BACKGROUND Morbid obesity is reported to be a survival factor for haemodialysis patients compared with those with a normal body mass index (BMI), yet morbid obesity (BMI >35) is a mortality risk factor for obese patients in the general population. Traditionally, haemodialysis dosing is prescribed to achieve a target Kt/V corrected for total body water (TBW). As obese patients typically have inc...

OBJECTIVES Health care workers constitute a high-risk occupational category owing to the character of their work that includes high-risk environment, shift work and mental as well as physical stress. In occupational medicine, caring for their health condition should be a priority and include measures aimed at preventing cardiovascular diseases. The study aimed at determining the prevalence of c...

OBJECTIVE To estimate frequencies of metabolic risk phenotypes and their associations in body mass index and waist circumference-based obesity categories. METHODS The cross-sectional study was conducted at Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, from August 2014 to March 2016. Anthropometric and clinical data of young adults was collected. All subjects were catego...

Background Men who have sex with men (MSM) have a high lifetime risk of anogenital warts and cancers related to infection with human papillomavirus (HPV). They also benefit less from herd protection than heterosexual males in settings with female-only HPV vaccination. Methods We evaluated the potential health impact and cost-effectiveness of offering vaccination to MSM who visit genitourinary...

Aminoglycoside dosing has been studied in the obese population, typically recommending an adjusted weight utilizing a 40% dosing weight correction factor (IBW + 0.4 × (TBW-IBW)). These studies included limited numbers of morbidly obese patients and were not done in the era of extended interval aminoglycoside dosing. Here, we report a retrospective evaluation of morbidly obese patients receiving...

Controversy surrounds testosterone replacement therapy in obese ageing due to no generally accepted lower limits of normal testosterone level and high prevalence of hypogonadal symptoms in the ageing male population and the non-specific nature of these symptoms. Late onset hypogonadism is a clinical and biochemical syndrome associated with advancing age, often coexisting with obesity and metabo...

OBJECTIVE Assessment of the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome (MetS) and its components in Italian obese individuals. METHODS Cross-sectional estimate of MetS prevalence using the IDF definition in 635 obese (BMI ≥ 35 kg/m(2)) individuals (286 men, 349 women) aged 19-78 years hospitalised for mass excess treatment. RESULTS MetS prevalence was significantly (p < 0.001) higher in males (75...

BACKGROUND Although many Asian type 2 diabetic patients have been considered to be not obese and have low capacity of insulin secretion, the proportion of obese patients with visceral fat accumulation has increased in recent years. We found previously considerable number of Japanese non-obese subjects (body mass index (BMI) < 25 kg/m²) with visceral fat accumulation and multiple cardiovascular ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the prevalence and demographic predictors of clinically meaningful weight loss in community samples of obese older adults in the USA and the UK. METHODS Data were from obese older adults (BMI ≥ 30 kg/m(2); age ≥ 52 years), free of a cancer diagnosis, from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS; n = 3398) and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA; n = 998). Weight c...