Obesity impacts most of the population, and many countries are predicted to raise prevalence adults affected by obesity (OB) related disorders during recent decades. OB is uninterruptedly increasing at a shocking proportion throughout globe scattering as an epidemic threatening world health. It currently projected that more than 250 million population worldwide obese, comparable 7% adult popula...

Obesity is a complex disease involving an excessive amount of body fat and important public health problem affecting all ages in both men women. It has been shown that obesity responsible for many genetic, environmental, neurological, physiological, biochemical, cultural spiritual factors. World Health Organization (WHO) recommends Body Mass Index (BMI) classification due to its simplicity, cos...

BACKGROUND Sarcopenia is an important factor of functional impairment related to aging. This study is conducted to investigate the prevalence of sarcopenia and sarcopenic obesity in Korean population. METHODS Representative Korean men (4,486) and women (5,999) aged 20 years or older were analyzed from the Fourth Korean National Health and Nutritional Examination Surveys. Sarcopenia was classi...

The objective of this study was to develop cut-off values and evaluate the accuracy of body mass index (BMI) in the definition of obesity in the Thai population. A cross-sectional, epidemiologic study in 340 men and 507 women aged 50 +/- 16 yr (mean +/- SD; range: 20-84 yr), were sampled by stratified clustering sampling method. Body composition, including percentage body fat (%BF), was measure...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate long-term patterns of weight change and progression to overweight and obesity during adulthood. DESIGN Prospective study. Changes in mean BMI, waist circumference (WC) and weight were assessed over a mean 26-year follow-up (1971–1975 to 1998–2001). Mean BMI (95% CI) and mean WC (95% CI) of men and women in BMI and age groups were computed. Mean weight change in BMI and a...

OBJECTIVE To measure the prevalence of overweight, obesity and the metabolic syndrome (MetS) in rural Australia. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Cross-sectional surveys were conducted in two rural areas in Victoria and South Australia in 2004-2005. A stratified random sample of men and women aged 25-74 years was selected from the electoral roll. Data were collected by a self-administered que...

BACKGROUND Obesity continues to be an important public health problem worldwide. The objective of this study was to determine the association of body mass index and abdominal obesity with current marital status among the adult population of Iran. METHODS A nation-wide cross-sectional survey was conducted from December 2004 through February 2005.The subjects were selected by stratified probabi...

Our objective was to compare obesity prevalence among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected adults receiving care and the U.S. general population and identify obesity correlates among HIV-infected men and women.Cross-sectional data was collected in 2009 to 2010 from 2 nationally representative surveys: Medical Monitoring Project (MMP) and National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (...

BACKGROUND Recent studies have reported the existence of obesity paradox in acute coronary syndromes (ACS). However, the occurrence of obesity paradox in men and women has not yet been thoroughly investigated, even though both genders differ in patterns and incidence of obesity. AIM Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate whether obesity influence on outcomes of patients with ACS ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate differences in overweight and obesity between first-generation Dutch-Ghanaian migrants in The Netherlands and their rural and urban counterparts in Ghana. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SUBJECTS A total of 1471 Ghanaians (rural Ghanaians, n 532; urban Ghanaians, n 787; Dutch-Ghanaians, n 152) aged > or = 17 years. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Overweight (BMI > or = 25 kg/...