BACKGROUND AND AIM The involvement of leptin in atherosclerosis is very complex, including inflammation, the oxidative stress and thrombosis. Leptin has atherogenic and also antiatherogenic actions. In obesity elevated leptin levels are not sufficient to prevent disturbances of energy balance, suggesting that obese people are leptin resistant. The aim of the study was to investigate the relatio...

The aim of this article was to investigate the prevalence of overweight and obesity using selected anthropometric variables in a sample of hospitalized coronary heart disease (CHD) patients in Croatia (N = 1,298). Prevalence of overweight and obesity in surveyed patient population was high: 48.2% of participants were overweight and 28.6% were obese according to their body mass index; measured t...

objective: in recent years, the prevalence of overweight and obesity had a significant growth in children. obesity is a serious health problem all over the world. in this study, we aimed to determine the prevalence of overweight and obesity in elementary students in robat-karim, iran in 2014. materials and methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted on 490 female students of elementary sc...

Nearly 2 billion adults and 42 million children are either obese or overweight worldwide. In the United States, a staggering 36% of all adults are obese. Obesity is a major risk factor for many cardiovascular diseases, including heart failure (HF). Obesity and weight gain are associated with increases in left ventricular (LV) mass, amplification of agerelated LV stiffening, and worsening LV dia...

background : hypertension is a risk factor for life threatening diseases such as cerebrovascular accidents, coronary artery diseases, congestive heart failure and chronic renal failure. the prevalence of non-communicable diseases such as hypertension and diabetes including obesity has increased over the past few years in iran. the first step for modification of cardiovascular diseases in a defi...

BACKGROUND To estimate and compare prevalence of overweight and obesity among adult people across the 22 districts of Tehran in 2011. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study using data on 47,406 women and 47,525 men aged≥ 15 years from a large population-based survey (Urban HEART-2). Age-standardized prevalence (ASP) of overweight (25≤BMI<30) and obesity (BMI≥30) were estimated for the Tehra...

Overweight and obesity have become increasingly common; worldwide, at least 1.1 billion adults are overweight and 312 million are obese, when overweight and obesity are defined conventionally as having a body mass index (BMI) of 25 kg/m and 30 kg/m, respectively.1,2 In the general population, overweight and obesity are associated with increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease,3,4 and ...

Obesity is a growing public health problem in the general population, and significantly increases the risk for the development of new-onset heart failure (HF). However, in the setting of chronic HF, overweight and mild to moderate obesity is associated with substantially improved survival compared to normal-weight patients. Evidence exists for an "obesity paradox" in HF, with the majority of da...

PURPOSE The purpose of this review was to summarize the literature on the relationship between obesity and survival in persons with heart failure (HF). In particular, the article examines the ways in which studies define body size/composition (body mass index [BMI], body composition, weight, cachexia, fluid retention, or albumin) and the relationship of BMI and survival after controlling for fa...