Overweight and Obesity in Southern Italy: their association with social and life-style characteristics and their effect on levels of biologic markers / Overweight and Obesity in Southern Italy: their association with social and life-style characteristics and their effect on levels of biologic markers.
Rev. Fac. Cienc. Méd. (Córdoba)
;
71(3): 113-24, 2014.
Article
in Spanish
| LILACS, BINACIS
| ID: biblio-1170985
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
In the last decades, overweight and obesity have been transformed from minor public health issues to a major threat to public health affecting the most affluent societies and also the less developed ones.OBJECTIVES:
To estimate overweight-obesity prevalence in adults, their association with some social determinants and to assess the effect of these two conditions on levels of biologic and biochemical characteristics, by means of a population-based study.METHODS:
A random sample of the general population of Putignano was drawn. All participants completed a general pre-coded and a Food Frequency questionnaire; anthropometric measures were taken and a venous blood sample was drawn. All subjects underwent liver ultra-sonography. Data description was done by means of tables and then Quantile Regression was performed.RESULTS:
Overall prevalence of overweight and obesity were 34.5
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Index:
LILACS (Americas)
Main subject:
Overweight
/
Life Style
Type of study:
Risk factors
Limits:
Adult
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Female
/
Humans
/
Male
Country/Region as subject:
Europa
Language:
Spanish
Journal:
Rev. Fac. Cienc. Méd. (Córdoba)
Journal subject:
Medicine
Year:
2014
Type:
Article
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