background: excess weight in children and adolescents is a multi-factorial phenomenon and associated with earlier risk of obesityrelated diseases. this study aims to assess the prevalence of weight disorders and the mean values of anthropometric indices according to regional, socioeconomic, and urban-rural variations among iranian children and adolescents. materials and methods: this nationwide...

BACKGROUND Few studies have associated anthropometric measurements and lipid profile with hypertension in adult populations and to the best of our knowledge none has been done in Turkey OBJECTIVES To relate anthropometric derivatives of overweight/obesity with hyperlipidemia status in a group of Turkish hypertensive adults. METHODS Six hundred forty nine (307 male, 342 female) hypertensive ...

Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of disorders and great risk for cardiovascular diseases. We aimed to investigate association between severity of metabolic syndrome (MetS) and anthropometric measurements, and to evaluate correlation of MetS and its components with metabolic deterioration and inflammatory indexes. The cross-sectional study enrolled 1474 patients with obesity and overweight. The p...

BACKGROUND The nutritional landscape of India is experiencing the fallout of urbanization and globalization. The changes are manifest in dietary patterns as well as health outcomes. The study aimed at assessing household dietary intake pattern with special emphasis on snacking pattern, anthropometric and lipid profiles in low socio-economic status households in an urban slum of Delhi. METHODS...

Background: Children and adolescents with at-risk genotypes (AA/AT) of the rs9939609 polymorphism in FTO, a fat mass and obesity-associated gene, may exhibit different cardiometabolic profile responses than subjects with the TT genotype after an interdisciplinary intervention. Methods: The sample consisted of 36 school children from southern Brazil. We used DNA quantitation and real-time poly...

PURPOSE Carbohydrates are shown to have an important role in blood glucose control, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases risk. This is even more challenging when considering populations consuming refined grains diets. Bread and rice are staple foods which supply main proportion of Iranian calorie intake. This study was designed to investigate the effect of bread and rice intake on blood ...

BACKGROUND Studies on the systemic availability of nutrients and nutritional status in Alzheimer's disease (AD) are widely available, but the majority included patients in a moderate stage of AD. OBJECTIVE This study compares the nutritional status between mild AD outpatients and healthy controls. METHODS A subgroup of Dutch drug-naïve patients with mild AD (Mini-Mental State Examination (M...

Background: Obesity is rising globally, independent of ethnicity, race and age, associated with increased risk cardiovascular mortality morbidity especially in persons living diabetes. The effect adipokines such as leptin, resistin adiponectin which are secreted by adipose tissue factors has been linked to the morbidity. Aim: This study aims assess levels serum leptin obese type 2 diabetes subj...

how to cite this article: aminzadeh v, setila dalili s, ashoorian y, kohmanaee sh, hassanzadeh rad a. anthropometric indices in children with refractory epilepsy. iran j child neurol. winter 2016; 10(1):47-52. abstract objective we aimed to assess the effect of body mass index (bmi) on reducing the risk of refractory seizure due to lipoid tissue factors. materials & methods this matched case-co...

Introduction: Cephalometry is an efficient tool for anthropometric studies. This study sought to assess facial dimensions and types of adults residing in Qazvin (Iran) and Dera Ghazi (DG) Khan (Pakistan). Methods: In this cross-sectional study, a total of 300 ethnic populations of Qazvin and 365 ethnic populations of DG Khan aged between 18-55 years were randomly selected and evaluated. Th...