Latin America Countries in Latin America, such as Mexico and Argentina, have also reported rising obesity rates. Mexico’s obesity rate is now over 36%, driven by similar factors to those in other regions, such as urbanization, changing dietary patterns, and reduced physical activity. ...
Subjects: A total of 147, 938 non-pregnant women 15–49 y were included in the analyses. Results: The percentage of obese women was 0.1% in South Asia, 2.5% in Sub-Saharan Africa, 9.6% in Latin America and the Caribbean, 15.4% in Central Eastern Europe/Commonwealth of Independent Stat...
North Americais expected to generate significant revenue in theobesitymanagement market in the coming years. Factors like a high population awareness, the presence of prominent drug manufacturers, and the rising prevalence of obesity account for the region's rapid growth in the obesity management marke...
A person’s body fat percentage can be indirectly estimated by using the Deurenberg equation, as follows: body fat percentage = 1.2(BMI) + 0.23(age) - 10.8(sex) - 5.4 with age being in years and sex being designated as 1 for males and 0 for females. This equation has a standard err...
By utilizing specific x-ray absorptivity of tissues with different densities, the DXA scan distinguishes fat tissue from other tissues and calculates the percentage of fat in the body. Fat percentages for only the trunk area were derived to measure the magnitude and distribution of body fat. ...
Subjects:A total of 147, 938 non-pregnant women 15–49 y were included in the analyses. Results:The percentage of obese women was 0.1% in South Asia, 2.5% in Sub-Saharan Africa, 9.6% in Latin America and the Caribbean, 15.4% in Central Eastern Europe/Commonwealth of Independent States...
(A) Adult obesity is the body mass index (BMI) equal to or greater than 30 kg/m2 and based on the percentage of body adipose tissue, when it exceeds 20% in men and 25% in women [1, 2, 3]. (B) Childhood obesity (under 5 years of age) is the BMI percentile equal to or ...
The largest absolute decreases were in countries in south Asia (eg, Bangladesh and India) and southeast Asia (eg, Viet Nam and Myanmar), with decreases of as much as 40·5 percentage points (95% CrI 35·0 to 45·9, posterior probability of being a true decrease >0·999) in women in...
evidence suggests that BMI is not an optimal indicator of body fat percentage, and its effectiveness as a risk factor of CVDs had been questioned. BMI fails to distinguish between lean and fat masses and does not indicate body fat distribution [11]. Central obesity, on the other hand, is ...
Further, a GWA meta-analysis found a strong genetic correlation of childhood BMI with adult BMI (rG = 0.76) and somewhat weaker genetic correlations with waist-to-hip ratio (rG = 0.39) and body-fat percentage in adulthood (rG = 0.46) [12]. Even when the previous studies ...