background : adiponectin is an anti-inflammatory and antiatherogenic protein that has a protective effect against athero­sclero­sis and diabetes. it is exclusively secreted by adipose tissue. serum adiponectin levels are inversely associated with pa­rame­ters of overall adiposity including body mass index (bmi), fat mass, and percentage of body fat. methods : in a cross-sectional study of 76 wo...

conclusions the current study revealed that pregnant females had significantly lower hgs compared with non-pregnant ones. high parity and gravidity and later stage of pregnancy led to significantly lower hgs. higher level of adiposity led to poorer performance of hgs in females. it is recommended to evaluate hgs in antenatal care, which may have diagnostic and prognostic benefits. background ha...

background: nowadays obesity is considered as a worldwide issue. although genetics is one of the factors associated with obesity, but the predisposing factors are nutrition and environmental factors.  there are several studies conducted regarding the relationship between nutritional factors and general obesity and central adiposity. therefore the purpose of this study was to determine the relat...

Neuropsychiatric symptoms are frequent in obese individuals. Mounting evidence suggests that adiposity-related inflammation contributes to this effect. This study assessed the relationship between adiposity, neuropsychiatric symptom dimensions and systemic subjects stratified by body-mass-index (BMI). The included 165 subjects, of whom 70 were very severely (BMI ≥ 40 kg/m2), 50 (BMI: 35–39.99 2...

Abstract Background Adiposity is a strong risk factor for cancer incidence and mortality. However, most of the evidence available has focused on body mass index (BMI) as marker adiposity. There limited relationships with other adiposity markers, if these associations are linear or not. The aim this study was to investigate six markers mortality from 24 cancers by accounting potential non-linear...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: nowadays obesity has become a universal problem. many studies have been done on obesity and abdominal adiposity. the aim of this study was to investigate the association between polyunsaturated fatty acid (pufa) intake, and obesity and abdominal adiposity in female students of isfahan university of medical scie...

We tested the hypothesis that the elevations in 24-h arterial systolic (SBP) and pulse (PP) pressures with age in sedentary adult females are absent or smaller in women who exercise regularly. Four groups of healthy normotensive women were studied: premenopausal ( n = 12; 29 ± 1 yr, mean ± SE) and postmenopausal ( n = 20; 62 ± 1) sedentary, and premenopausal ( n = 14; 30 ± 1) and postmenopausal...