being either underweight or overweight can affect a woman's fertility. irregular menstrual cycles, reduced spontaneous and assisted fertility and an increased risk of miscarriage are risks associated with obesity that are often overlooked. excessive weight and central distribution of body fat are both related to an increased risk of normogonadotrophic anovulation. weight loss can re-establish o...

background: to estimate and compare prevalence of overweight and obesity among adult people across the 22 districts of tehran in 2011.   method s: 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 t...

  Background: To estimate and compare prevalence of overweight and obesity among adult people across the 22 districts of Tehran in 2011.   Method s: 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 ...

obesity is an epidemic nutritional disease caused mainly by excessive dietary intake and/or insufficient exercise. the purpose of this study was to investigate associations between a number of demographic characteristics and eating habits with prevalence of overweight and obesity in hospital employees. the study was cross-sectional performed on employees of namazi hospital in shiraz, iran. subj...

background: the body mass index (bmi) is widely used to diagnose overweight and obesity. however, there are limitations on the use of bmi and development of alternative measures can be of clinical importance. this study aimed to compare specificity and sensitivity of weight for height (w/h), waist circumference (wc) and waist-to-height ratio (whtr) with bmi-for-age in diagnosing overweight and ...

background: obesity is a major risk factor for chronic diseases and has a role on high blood pressure, diabetes type ii, etc., this review assesses the prevalence of iranian children obesity and overweight for different age categories and compares the three standard definitions of obesity. materials and methods: to retrieve desirable studies concerning childhood anthropometric data from differe...