obesity and overweight have become increasingly a major public health problem across the world. this study aimed at exploring the effects of motivational interviewing on weight efficacy lifestyle among women with obesity and overweight. a single-blind randomized clinical trial study was conducted on 100 overweight and obese women who attended a nutrition clinic. the samples were selected based ...

We investigated the impact of combined effect of body mass index and waist-to-height ratio on risk of diabetes. Overweight and abdominal obesity were defined as body mass index ≥23 kg/m2 and waist-to-height ratio ≥0.5, respectively. We divided participants into four groups according to presence of overweight and/or abdominal obesity. About 20% individuals with overweight did not complicated wit...

Aim To assess the individual effects of overweight/obesity and tobacco exposure, their combined on hypertension in children. Methods This cross-sectional study included 6,339 children aged 6–17 years from National Health Nutrition Examination Surveys 1999–2018. Participants’ height, weight blood pressure (BP) were measured by trained technicians. Hypertension was defined as: mean systolic BP (S...

background: the most important process in childhood and adolescence is learning. the purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of dyslexia among primary male school students and the relationship between dyslexia, obesity and overweight. methods: this is a cross-sectional study conducted on 1000 male students (first to fifth grade) in primary schools (20 schools) by using the multi-s...

background: iran is a vast country with great variability in ethnicity and geographical regions as well as higher diversity in socioeconomic and demographic factors in different provinces. all these differences could influence the growth indicators of children and may result in a substantial inequality in the distribution of growth indexes across iranian provinces. this study aimed to determine...

Social inequalities in overweight and obesity (OWOB) have persisted in the affluent and reputedly egalitarian Nordic countries. In this review we examine associations between socioeconomic position (SEP) and OWOB, and secular trends in such associations. Determinants and possible causes of the relations are discussed together with opportunities to cope with OWOB as a public health problem. The ...

backgroundchildhood obesity has become a global epidemic. in the recent studies has reported risk of thyroid dysfunction due to obesity. therefore, this study intends to compare the relative frequency of thyroid function disorders in obese and overweight children with non-obese children.materials and methodsthis case-control study during 2015 to 2016 in birjand, iran was done on 137 children an...