BACKGROUND Mounting evidence indicates that obesity may be associated with the risk of colorectal cancer (CRC). To conduct a systematic review of prospective studies assessing the association of obesity with the risk of CRC using meta-analysis. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Relevant studies were identified by a search of MEDLINE and EMBASE databases before January 2012, with no restrictions....

BACKGROUND With the emergence of obesity as a global health issue an increasing number of major demographic surveys are collecting measured anthropometric data. Yet little is known about the characteristics and reliability of these data. OBJECTIVES We evaluate the accuracy and reliability of anthropometric data collected in the home during Wave IV of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolesc...

Obese individuals are less able to oxidize fat than non-obese individuals. Caloric reduction or fasting can detect ketonuria. We investigated the differences of metabolic parameters in the presence of ketonuria after a minimum 8 hr fast in a cross-sectional analysis of 16,523 Koreans (6,512 women and 10,011 men). The relationship between the presence of ketonuria of all subjects and prevalence ...

Studying the links between dietary patterns and obesity is especially relevant for Middle-Eastern populations because of their high prevalence of a particular type of obesity, the so-called Middle-Eastern pattern, and their diets' unique characteristics. Therefore, we wondered if major dietary patterns are related to the prevalence of general obesity and central adiposity among Iranian women. I...

objective: we determine the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in an urban population of jahrom, a city located in the south of iran. materials and methods: randomly selected subjects ≥30 years-old were studied using stratified sampling. target study sample was 892 (405 men and 487 women). metabolic syndrome was diagnosed using modified adult treatment panel guidelines when any three of the f...

Obesity is an abnormal condition characterized by excessive increase in body fat, generally deposited the subcutaneous tissue, around organs, and sometimes infiltrated into organs. occurs due to changes lifestyle, for example, drinking a lot, smoking habits, consuming lots of fatty foods, fast food (fast food) low physical activity. The main factors causing central obesity are increased intake ...

BACKGROUND Socioeconomic status is strongly associated with obesity. Current economic circumstances are also independently associated with self-reported weight status in Finnish civil servants. We aimed to examine three types of financial hardship in relation to measured general and central obesity in a general population of older adults, while considering conventional socioeconomic indicators....

A ccording to the new International Diabetes Federation (IDF) definition of metabolic syndrome, for a person to be defined as having metabolic syndrome they must have central obesity defined by waist circumference (1). In the definition, there are some ethnic or country-specific differences in the cutoff points of waist circumference, and Japanese cutoff points have been separately established ...

The metabolic syndrome is associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality (1,2). In 2005, the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) formulated a new, clinically accessible worldwide definition of the metabolic syndrome in a global consensus statement (3) built on earlier definitions (4,5). According to the IDF, central obesity is an essential component of the metabolic syndro...

This study investigated the prevalence and determinants of hyperuricemia in Chinese type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients with central obesity. A multicentric hospital-based cross-sectional study was carried out in Guangdong Province between August 2011 and March 2012. At each hospital, Chinese T2DM patients with central obesity who were aged over 20 years, whose serum uric acid levels were ...