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)
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71(3): 113-24, 2014.
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en Español
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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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Tipo de estudio:
Factores de riesgo
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Adulto
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Femenino
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Humanos
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Masculino
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Europa
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Rev. Fac. Cienc. Méd. (Córdoba)
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Medicina
Año:
2014
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