OBJECTIVE To investigate growth trajectories and predictive factors for those with low birth weight and high adult BMI. DESIGN Birth cohort study. SETTING England, Scotland, and Wales. PARTICIPANTS All born 3-9 March, 1958. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES People at "high risk" of adult disease were defined as having a combination of lower birth weight (in the lowest third of the distribution) and...

  Purpose: To investigate the relationship between neck circumferences and cardiovascular risk   factors in patients with acute coronary syndrome.   Materials and Methods: In a cross-sectional study, 100 patients with acute coronary syndrome   in Kerman hospitals were assessed by measuring their neck circumference and risk factors of   cardiovascular disease. The data were analyzed by student t...

AIMS/INTRODUCTION The aim of the present study was to determine whether weight reduction is associated with improvement of glycemic control in non-obese and obese subjects with or without visceral fat accumulation, whose hemoglobin A1c (A1C) is 5.6-6.4%. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 798 male subjects whose A1C levels were between 5.6% and 6.4% were divided into subgroups based on body mas...

     This study aimed to estimate the levels of some biomarkers such as PON-1, PAI-1, OX-LDL, and ET-1 in the blood plasma of obese men and to study their relationship as risk predictors of metabolic syndrome.      Method and result: The study involved the collection of 88 blood serum samples from men who have metabolic health, including 28 samples from normal weights, whose body mass index (B...

BACKGROUND Previous studies suggest adults gain extra weight during the holiday season, however, few studies have been done with children during this time. The purpose of this study was to evaluate gains in growth among elementary children, and compare differences by gender and weight status. METHODS Childrens (n = 90) height and weight were measured before and after their holiday break. Heig...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether adequate vs excessive gestational weight gain (GWG) attenuated the association between maternal obesity and offspring outcomes. STUDY DESIGN Data from 313 mother-child pairs participating in the Exploring Perinatal Outcomes among Children study were used to test this hypothesis. Maternal prepregnancy body mass index (BMI) and weight measures throughout pregnancy...

OBJECTIVE To examine the effect of maternal overweight and obesity on labor progression. METHODS We analyzed data from 612 nulliparous women with a term pregnancy that participated in the Pregnancy, Infection, and Nutrition Study from 1995 to 2002. The median duration of labor by each centimeter of cervical dilation was computed for normal-weight (body mass index [BMI] 19.8-26.0 kg/m2), overw...

INTRODUCTION Nutritional screening is a fundamental aspect of the initial evaluation of the hospitalised patient. Body Mass Index (BMI) in association with other parameters is a good marker of malnutrition (<18.5 kg/m2), but it presents the handicap that the great majority of patients cannot be weighed and measured. For this reason it is necessary to find other indicators that can be measured i...