OBJECTIVE This study aimed to examine how weight and weight changes related to pregnancy were associated with depressive symptoms 11-16 years after childbirth. METHOD We followed 16,998 first-time mothers from the Danish National Birth Cohort up till 16 years after birth and estimated associations between depressive symptoms and pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) (kg m-2), weight changes in ...

PURPOSE To assess the relationship between body mass index (BMI), subcutaneous and intra-abdominal fat, liver density, and histopathologic hepatic steatosis. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this retrospective study, 143 patients (male/female, 67/76; mean age, 50 years) underwent a non-targeted transjugular (n = 125) or percutaneous (n = 18) liver biopsy between 2006 and 2010. The biopsy indications ...

BACKGROUND No evidence supports the waist circumference (WC) cutoff points recommended by the National Institutes of Health to identify subjects at increased health risk within the various body mass index (BMI; calculated as weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters) categories. OBJECTIVE To examine whether the prevalence of hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, dyslipid...

INTRODUCTION BMI, hip and waist circumferences (HC and WC) are being used as clinical surrogates of obesity. Unceratinities exist regarding the cut-off values, which are recommonded for Western countries. OBJECTIVES We conducted a study to determine cut-off values for Sri Lankan women. METHODS Healthy premenopausal women (n=128) aged 25 to 50 years were selected randomly, from local MOH are...

BACKGROUND Little is known about associations of gestational weight gain (GWG) with long-term maternal health. OBJECTIVE We aimed to examine associations of prepregnancy weight and GWG with maternal body mass index (BMI; in kg/m(2)), waist circumference (WC), systolic blood pressure (SBP), and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) 16 y after pregnancy. DESIGN This is a prospective study in 2356 mo...

Background: Little is known about associations of gestational weight gain (GWG) with long-term maternal health. Objective: We aimed to examine associations of prepregnancy weight and GWG with maternal body mass index (BMI; in kg/m), waist circumference (WC), systolic blood pressure (SBP), and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) 16 y after pregnancy. Design: This is a prospective study in 2356 mother...

BACKGROUND For the elderly, the association between waist circumference (WC) and mortality considering body mass index (BMI) remains unclear, and thereby also the evidence base for using these anthropometric measures in clinical practice. This meta-analysis examined the association between WC categories and (cause-specific) mortality within BMI categories. Furthermore, the association of contin...

OBJECTIVE Normal-weight abdominal obesity has been reported to be associated with poor mortality. We aimed to investigate the impact of increased visceral adiposity with normal weight (OB(-)VA(+)) on the progression of arterial stiffness in patients with type 2 diabetes. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study of 414 patients with type 2 diabetes (mean age 64±12 years; 40.3% female). Viscera...

AIM To provide growth and sexual maturation reference data for Moroccan children living in The Netherlands and to compare them with the reference data of children of Dutch origin. METHODS Cross-sectional growth and demographic data were collected from 2880 children of Moroccan origin and 14,500 children of Dutch origin living in The Netherlands in the age range 0-20 y. Growth references for l...

The authors examined the joint associations of adiposity (assessed by body mass index (BMI; weight (kg)/height (m)(2)) and waist circumference) and physical activity with mortality to evaluate whether physical activity protects against the adverse effects of high adiposity. Using data on 185,412 men and women aged 51-72 years participating in the National Institutes of Health-AARP Diet and Heal...