Background and aims: Obesity and overweight is a major public health problem and, alongside hypertension, is one of the risk factors of cardiovascular diseases incidence. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of overweight and its association with hypertension in the patients referred the healthcare center in Jandaq. Methods: This cross-se...

CONTEXT The benefit of weight reduction for cardiovascular disease (CVD) outcomes remains uncertain. OBJECTIVE To examine the effects of baseline body mass index on major CVD outcomes and diabetes over a 20 year follow up, and of weight change in the first five years over the subsequent 15 years. DESIGN AND SETTING A prospective study of British men followed up for 20 years. PARTICIPANTS ...

This is a descriptive study on nutritional status of Orang Asli (Che Wong tribe) adults in Krau Wildlife Reserve. Twenty-six households, comprising 29 men and 28 women,participated in the study. Dietary diversity was assessed using food frequency questionnaire with 37 food groups. Weight, height and waist circumference were measured using standard instruments. The mean age for men and women was...

Objectives: To investigate the association between obesity and glycemic control based on country-specific data from USA selected European Asian countries by body mass index (BMI), or BMI (HbA1c), in individuals with type 2 diabetes (T2D). Methods: Literature search of databases abstracts to identify real-world studies (2015-2020) reporting HbA1c data. Results: Seventeen articles (China, includi...

OBJECTIVE To examine actual and perceived weight in national cohorts of Mexican-origin adult men in Mexico and the United States (US). MATERIALS AND METHODS We used the 2001-06 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and the 2006 Mexican National Health and Nutrition Survey. RESULTS The prevalence of overweight or obesity (OO) in Mexicans was 65% and in Mexican-Americans was 72%. O...

OBJECTIVE To discuss critically the contribution of using second-level residuals from multilevel analyses to further the understanding of how place relates to health and to visualize areas, in the province of Quebec (Canada), with above- and below-average levels of overweight. METHODS Data on 20,449 individuals are from the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS Cycle 2.1) and were linked to ...

Objectives The weight status of men with overweight and obesity tends to be visually underestimated, but visual recognition of female overweight and obesity has not been formally examined. The aims of the present studies were to test whether people can accurately recognize both male and female overweight and obesity and to examine a visual norm-based explanation for why weight status is underes...

In Canada, there is limited research examining the associations between objectively measured neighborhood environments and physical activity (PA) and obesity. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationships between variables from built and social environments and PA and overweight/obesity across 86 Ottawa, Canada neighborhoods. Individual-level data including self-reported leisure-...

BACKGROUND As the relation between socioeconomic status (SES) and obesity may depend on the stage of development of a country, this relation is assessed in adults from urban Cameroon. METHODS A sample comprising 1530 women and 1301 men aged 25 years and above, from 1897 households in the Biyem-Assi health area in the capital of Cameroon, Yaoundé, were interviewed about their household ameniti...

OBJECTIVE This study examined gender differences in explicit and implicit attitudes toward overweight and explicit and implicit weight identity. METHOD Normal weight women (n=22) and men (n=20) and overweight women (n=20) and men (n=21) completed the Implicit Association Test and portions of the Eating Disorders Questionnaire. RESULTS Although explicit and implicit anti-fat attitudes were u...