نتایج جستجو برای: obesity indicators
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BACKGROUND Despite the use of inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) becoming increasingly widespread, many problems related to asthma management still need to be addressed. One of them, obesity, has been reported to exert a harmful influence on asthma control. However, there have been few reports focusing not only on both obesity and its influence on Japanese asthma patients but also on the Japanese def...
BACKGROUND No studies have examined if mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) can be an alternative screening tool for obesity in an international sample of children differing widely in levels of human development. OBJECTIVE Our aim is to determine whether MUAC could be used to identify obesity in children from 12 countries in five major geographic regions of the world. METHODS This observation...
Discrimination and prejudice against people who suffer from obesity is an unacceptable treatment environment within healthcare. In the last 10 years, prejudice against obesity has increased by 66 %. Obesity bias and discrimination is widespread both in society and among healthcare workers. In the healthcare environment, bias leads to inconsistent evaluation and management of obesity, discourage...
BACKGROUND Despite the importance of obesity and its association with socioeconomic status, little is known about this condition in Korean adolescents. We examined the relationship between obesity in Korean adolescents and several socioeconomic variables and compared the association of obesity with conventional and subjective indicators of socioeconomic status. METHODS The study comprised 60 ...
Healthy People 2010 identifies that one of the ten leading health indicators representative of the relative state of health of Americans is overweight and obesity (www.healthypeople.gov). The Institute for Medicine (IOM, 2005) has identified obesity in children and young adults as having reached epidemic proportions in the United States. This problem is noted nationally throughout the United St...
Aim. To investigate the relationship between high blood pressure (HBP) and obesity in Egyptian adolescents. Methods. A cross-sectional study of 1500 adolescents (11-19 years) in Alexandria, Egypt, was conducted. Resting BP was measured and measurements were categorized using the 2004 fourth report on blood pressure screening recommendations. Additional measures included height, weight, and wais...
Changing influences on childhood obesity: a study of 2 generations of the 1958 British birth cohort.
Explanations for the trend of increasing childhood obesity have yet to be identified. The authors examined members of the 1958 British birth cohort (age 7 years, n = 8,552) and offspring (ages 4-9 years, n = 1,889) born to mothers under age 30 years to establish whether risk factors for childhood obesity have changed over time (1965-1991). The authors applied multilevel linear and logistic mode...
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