Experts said they had no explanation for why the obesity rate appears to be rising. The report, based primarily on a survey conducted in 2013-14, also found a tipping of the scales toward women. Obesity rates for men and women had been roughly the same for about a decade. But in the ...
The prevalence of overweight was higher in men than women (2007: 46.3 vs. 31.2 %;p < 0.001) and similar in all Austrian regions. There was a clear east-west gradient for obesity among both sexes, with the highest rates in Eastern Austria (in 2007, women: 18.1 %, men: 16.1 %;p <...
we found that elderly women had a higher BMI and prevalence of obesity than elderly men, which was consistent with a previ- ous study.31 There was evidence that the increased obesity rates in women were significantly influenced by sex, as the result of physiological changes in hormonal status ...
Men in younger cohorts had a higher mean BMI than those in the same age group of older cohorts, whereas the opposite trend was observed in women. The incidence of overweight individuals was greater in Okinawa than on the Main islands and among younger generations than among older ones. ...
Survival curves for BMI categories were similar (p > 0.10) in subgroups of men, women, patients with and without coronary artery disease, and patients dying suddenly. When patients with transplants were eliminated from the analysis, survival rates of the four BMI groups were still statistically ...
This cross-sectional study investigates racial differences in gout prevalence among women and men in the US general population and identifies sex-specific
This is in contrast to 41% of women who sought nonsurgical weight loss and reported a sexual dysfunction and 20% of men who sought nonsurgical weight loss and reported ED. These differences were not statistically significant. Sexual dysfunction was strongly associated with psychosocial distress in ...
In these analyses, the only significant trends were found in women aged 60 years and older (6.6 percentage point increase: 31.5% to 38.1%; P = .006); there was no significant trend among men aged 60 years and older (P = .25). Among girls aged 2 to 5 years, there was a...
Men and women differ in the regulation of body composition. For any givenbody mass index, men have more lean tissue whereas women have moreadiposity, and men have more visceraladipose tissuewhereas women have more subcutaneousadipose tissue. Yet, when normalized tolean body mass, men and women ...
Mother's socioeconomic status High School graduate or lower education b Employed b 0.058 0.600 0.593 0.688 0.444 0.196 0.708 0.098 0.746 0.946 0.891 0.635 0.084 0.492 0.495 0.490 0.060 0.234 0.718 0.051 0.822 0.937 0.927 0.655 a Calculated only for the employed sample (1959 men and 2226 women)...