background: several studies showed the relationship of obesity and overweight with body mass index. according to these studies, because of severe complications of obesity and overweight we wanted to indicate the outbreak rate of obesity and overweight in the certain group of veterans. methods: this study was cross-sectional in design. the numbers of subjects was 106 individuals in isfahan city....

how to cite this article: aminzadeh v, setila dalili s, ashoorian y, kohmanaee sh, hassanzadeh rad a. anthropometric indices in children with refractory epilepsy. iran j child neurol. winter 2016; 10(1):47-52. abstract objective we aimed to assess the effect of body mass index (bmi) on reducing the risk of refractory seizure due to lipoid tissue factors. materials & methods this matched case-co...

background: obesity may lead to various morbidity including liver diseases. the present study was done to determine which obesity indices, including body mass index (bmi), waist circumference (wc), waist to hip ratio (whr), and waist to height ratio (whtr) have the stronger association with rising levels of alanine aminotransferase (alt). material and methods: of 6143 subjects aged ≥ 10 years o...

background: this study was aimed to investigate the association of consuming white rice and potato, as well as the bread type with anthropometric measures and blood pressure (bp) in a national sample of iranian children and adolescents. methods: this nationwide study was conducted in 2011-2012 among 14,880 students, aged 6-18 years, selected by multistage cluster sampling from 30 provinces of i...

conclusions according to the results of the study, abdominal obesity is as a risk factor for atherosclerosis. therefore, the use of a simple, low cost and high precision method for determining visceral obesity and preventing the cad is warranted. background despite efforts made by the medical community and public health officials for combating 76 obesity, the prevalence of overweight and obesit...

background : infantile obesity is becoming increasingly recognized as one of the public health problems in iran.   objective: obesity charts of a cohort of 317 healthy infants and their parents living in shiraz (southern iran) are presented and the familial pattern of infants’ obesity with that of its parents explored.   methods : an adjusted weight-for-height index was used to develop power ty...

BACKGROUND Obesity is associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors (hypertension, dyslipidemia and diabetes) and metabolic syndrome (MetS), and it may be flawed that most studies only use one obesity index to predict these risk factors. Therefore, our study aims to compare the various combined obesity indices systematically, and to find the optimal combined obesity indices to predi...

original article   change in the form of doing the task in some occupations such as farming has led to overweight and obesity as a threatening factor for farmer's health. this study aimed to compare the anthropometric indices of obesity and fatness as the predictors of cardiometabolic disorders among rural farmers in the northern part of iran. this cross-sectional study was carried out in 2012 ...

the incidence and prevalence of obesity are fast increasing worldwide. various indices have been used to measure and assess obesity. the body mass index (bmi) is the most common and practical of these indices. overweight and obesity exert considerable adverse effects on the cardiovascular system. these effects are mediated through various neurohormonal and cytokine pathways, most of which are i...