Obesity is defined as an excessive accumulation of body fat, believed to contribute to a variety of health disorders, including cardiovascular disease. Moreover, Obesity is the excess of body fat resulting in a body mass index (a ratio of weight to height) of 30 or more; having a body ...
Obesity was defined as having a BMI 鈮 95th percentile of each of the three sets of reference values. Prevalence rates according to Iranian reference data, CDC 2000, and IOTF 2000 were %10/9, %5/2, and %3/6 respectively. Obesity is quite common among school children in Ahwaz and ...
Obesity is a complex, chronic disease and global public health challenge. Characterized by excessive fat accumulation in the body, obesity sharply increases the risk of several diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and nonalcoholic f
1 Under World Health Organization standards, overweight is defined as having a body mass index over 25. Obese is defined as having a body mass index over 30. Body mass index is mass divided by height squared. 2 The World Health Org...
However, orlistat also has a small effect on weight (BMI reduction <1), and this effect is of uncertain clinical significance. In addition, orlistat is associated with moderate harms. Therefore, the USPSTF encourages clinicians to promote behavioral interventions as the primary effective intervention ...
To examine the association between several eating behaviours and obesity, data were taken from a cross-sectional study conducted with 34u00a0974 individuals aged 25u201364 years, representative of the non-institutionalised Spanish population. Obesity was defined as BMIu00a0u2265u00a030u00a0kg...
Doctors say obesity is defined as the condition of being very overweight and having a body mass index, or BMI, of 30 or higher. The BMI is a measure of the weight relative to the height. Evidently, obesity is manifested in the abdominal fat around the waist of children and adults as we...
People are generally considered obese when their body mass index (BMI), a measurement obtained by dividing a person's weight by the square of the person's height—despite known allometric inaccuracies—is over 30 kg/m2; the range 25–30 kg/m2 is defined as overweight. Fat Any of a group...
(kg/m2), is index that commonly used to classify overweight and obesity in adults due to its low cost and simplicity. The World Health Organization (WHO) [1] has defined overweight as having a BMI between 25.0 and 29.9 kg/m2; and obesity as having a BMI greater or equal than 30.0 kg...
The primary outcome for this study was obesity at 10 years of age and was classified as a binary outcome. Overweight and obesity in children was defined as having a BMI ≥ 85th percentile for age and sex based on the 2017 Korean National Growth Chart published by the Korea Centers for ...