Overweight and obesity are nutritional problems requiring great attention in both developed developing countries where nutrition knowledge is confined to few people allied with health sectors. A cross-sectional study was conducted assess perception about overweight among 362 adults aged 25-55 years Same District, Kilimanjaro Region. This age group comprises active at higher risk of non-communic...

Background: Overweight is shown to have a detrimental effect on reaction times. Besides this, pathophysiological changes like systemic inflammation, insulin irregulation etc. linked with obesity are seen as reasons for prolonged visual time (VRT). Impaired VRT in the early ages of life can deleterious effects. Aerobic exercise promotes executive function, weight loss, enhanced muscular coordina...

Prenatal undernutrition impairs copulatory behavior and increases the tendency to become obese/overweight, which also reduces sexual behavior. Re-feeding rats prenatally undernourished with a normocaloric diet can restore their physiological conditions and copulatory behavior. Thus, the present study investigated whether a hypercaloric diet that is administered in rats during the juvenile perio...

OBJECTIVE Examine changes in, and factors associated with changing body mass index (BMI) in women following highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) initiation. METHODS 1177 HIV-infected Women's Interagency HIV Study participants who contributed 10,754 years of follow-up following HAART initiation were studied. Changes in median BMI up to 15 years following HAART initiation, and the highe...

background: because prehypertension identifies children most at risk for the development of future hypertensive disease, the purpose of this study was, to examine the association of prehypertension with risk factors for cardiovascular disease (cvd) in a large sample of youths participating in the community-based prevention education program family heart study. methods: we estimated blood pressu...

BACKGROUND Excessive television (TV) viewing might play an important role in the development of cardiovascular disease (CVD). The aim of this study was to examine the independent associations between TV viewing and CVD risk factors in adolescents. METHODS A sample of 425 adolescents, aged 13- to 18.5-year-old, was included in this study. Body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), glucos...

This study aimed to evaluate the association between body mass index (BMI) and progression in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 50 patients with TNBC who underwent breast-conserving surgery or mastectomy between 2007 and 2014. All patients were classified according to BMI (median 23.5 kg/m(2), range 17.2-31.6 kg/m(2)): 31 patients (62%) wer...

BACKGROUND Our objective was to evaluate changes in serum leptin levels during pregnancy in overweight/obese and non-obese women and to assess total and percent weight gain during pregnancy as possible factors that influence leptin levels. MATERIAL AND METHODS In a prospective study of 42 low-risk pregnant women receiving prenatal care, we assessed serum leptin levels at gestational weeks 9-1...

BackgroundObesity and overweight have been well established as comorbidities of epilepsy in adults. However, the effects obesity on risk adult drug-resistant (DRE) has not fully assessed. Thus, objective this study was to investigate relationships between categories body mass index (BMI) DRE.MethodsThis a case-control study. Patients with hospitalized for Video electroencephalogram were include...

The rate of habituation to food is inversely related to energy intake, and overweight children may habituate slower to food and consume more energy. This study compared patterns of sensitization, as defined by an initial increase in operant or motivated responding for food, and habituation, defined by gradual reduction in responding, for macaroni and cheese and pizza in overweight and non-overw...