Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: To evaluate and to study obesity in Saudi female population represente by Makkah community. This study aims to investigate obesity, by detecting leptin concentration and to take other parameters like body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) in assessing obesity.Methods: Two-hundred forty women (n=240) between the ages 18 and 65 participate in this study. Volunteers were divided into three groups. The first group was the normal...