Endocrine Abstracts

Aims: Increasing the nutritional knowledge of society about risk factors for diabetes mellitus like obesity and cardiovascular diseases.Background: Cardiovascular diseases are one of the most important cause of death between the people in many countries, and obesity is one of the important causes for cardiovascular diseases. So the society’s knowledge about risk factors for it like obesity is very important to prevention of cardiovascular diseases.<...

Introduction: The problem of increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity as a consequence of new life styles is worrying the scientists and health officers in less developed countries. In Iran that is experiencing an accelerated nutrition transition overweight has turned into a major public health problem.Objective: To determine overweight and obesity prevalence in Iranian adults.Material and methods: We have used data on 35 92...

Introduction: High prevalence of obesity and overweight among middle aged adults is a major health problem. It is related to high prevalence of many chronic degenerative diseases in this high risk group. This study was conducted to determine the prevalence of obesity and overweight among young and middle aged Iranian adults.Methods: This study was based on anthropometric data collected in the national household food consumption and nutritional status sur...

Introduction and aim: Beside protein–energy malnutrition among children, high prevalence of overweight is also a public health problem and a major nutritional challenge in most developing countries. The aim of this research was to determine and compare the prevalence of wasting, overweight and obesity among Iranian urban and rural under 5 year -old children.Subjects and methods: This study was based on national comprehensive study on household food ...