Introduction: Muslims fast from dawn to dusk during Ramadan. The effects of prolonged food deprivation on endocrine hormones have been studied in healthy adults but no previous study has investigated this effect on children. This study aimed to evaluate the feasible changes in serum level of thyroxin (T3), tetraiodothyronin (T4), thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) and body composition in pre-men...

Background: Identifying the onset of obesity in children can be helpful to design the prevention programs for obesity and its complications. The aim of this study was to evaluate the onset of obesity in children. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on the first grade of primary school children in Sari (urban areas) (Mazandaran Province, Iran) in 2014. The names and contact inform...

conclusions the present study revealed different degrees of malnutrition among drug addicts with multiple deficiencies in both macro- and micronutrients. results the mean age, body weight, height, and bmi were 34.4 ± 9.7 years, 63.1 ± 10.1 kg, 171.1 ± 11.6 cm, and 21.8 ± 4.4 kg/m², respectively. according to the percentile status of the bmis, the results showed that 35.2%, 20.4%, 37%, and 7.4% ...

OBJECTIVE Central adiposity is a component of the metabolic syndrome (MetS). Little is known about the impact of medical weight loss and decreased waist circumference (WC) on the MetS. Our objective was to assess the impact of changes in WC on blood pressure, lipids and glycemia. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We studied 430 obese patients enrolled in a 2-year, intensive, behavioral, weight mana...

This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of hypertension according to levels of abdominal circumference (AC) and body mass index (BMI, expressed as kg/m(2)) among public employees at a university in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Cross-sectional data were obtained for 1,743 non-pregnant women aged 24-69 years participating in the Pró-Saúde Study. Underweight women and those with BMI > 35 kg/m(2) we...

BACKGROUND Data regarding the validity of self-reported weight and height in adolescents are conflicting. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the validity of self-reported weight and height among 13-14 year olslddren. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional study of 517 schoolchildren aged 13-14 years and compared self-reported and measured weight and height by gender, population group, parental educatio...

OBJECTIVES To examine the effect of height, weight and body mass index (BMI) on the risk of hip and knee replacement in middle-aged women. METHODS In a prospective cohort study 490 532 women aged 50-69 yrs who were recruited in the UK in 1996-2001 were followed over 2.9 yrs for incident primary hip and knee replacements. RESULTS Height, weight and BMI were all associated with the risk of hi...

materials and methods in this school-based cross-sectional survey, a pre-tested structured self-administered questionnaire was set for obtaining the socio-demographic data (age at menarche, number of siblings, occupation and educational attainment of their parents, etc.), while the anthropometric status data was obtained by direct measurement of weight and height. the body mass index (bmi) and ...

The authors examined the association between waist circumference and mortality among 154,776 men and 90,757 women aged 51–72 years at baseline (1996–1997) in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study. Additionally, the combined effects of waist circumference and body mass index (BMI; weight (kg)/height (m)) were examined. All-cause mortality was assessed over 9 years of follow-up (1996–2005). After ad...