..., a hormone essential for daily life. Diabetes is an incurable disease, which has no racial, social, or sex barrier. The risk factors include a poor diet, lack of physical activity, obesity, and an unhealthy lifestyle. About 100 million people in the United States have diabetes mellitus, and the total...

...Rekia Belahsen; Odilia I. Bermudez; Mziwira Mohamed; Fertat Fatima; P. Kirstin Newby; Katherine L. Tucker Obesity is associated with hypertension and a cluster of metabolic disturbances that mediates the development and progression of chronic disease. The aim of this paper was to study the body...

...C. Savona-Ventura; M. Gatt Introduction: Obesity is associated with specific increased perinatal risks to mother and child. The study sets out to identify and assess the risk in a high NIDDM prevalence population. Methodology: The obstetric outcomes of 1691 women with a body weight ≥ 85 kg...

... resistance training is associated with a decline in serum levels of myostatin. A sample of 19 obese-overweight women (age= 23.2±3.4 yr, body mass index= 29.18±1.72 kg/m2) were assigned to resistance training (n= 10) and control (n= 9) groups. Resistance training was performed 3 times weekly for 12 weeks...

...Avinash De Sousa Objective: Childhood obesity is an ever increasing problem in today’s modern world. This study aimed at trying to recognize the role of maternal, child and family factors in childhood obesity. Methods: There were 2 groups in the study, the study group comprising of 80 obese primary...

..., obesity and overweight in two suburban communities in northern Nigeria. Methods: We studied an adult population sample in suburban northern Nigeria. Obesity was defined as BMI >30KgM-2 while overweight was defined as BMI > 25.0 but <30.0; and underweight was defined as BMI <18.5 KgM-2. Results...

...Ibrahim S. Aliyu; Tambaya M. Aliyu; Adamu G. Bakari; Sani S. Hassan; Geoffrey C. Onyemelukwe; Bala G. Sani Background: Obesity is the most important modifiable risk factor in the pathogenesis of type-2 diabetes reported in most cross-sectional studies. However, racial factors seem to be important...

...Adamu G. Bakari; Geoffrey C. Onyemelukwe Background: Obesity has been identified as the most important modifiable risk factor in the aetiology of type-2 diabetes mellitus. In clinical practice, body mass index (BMI) is the commonest index used to define the presence and degree of obesity...

...N. Rizk; R. Awni; M. Osman; M. Zirie Background: Obesity is commonly associated with insulin resistance (IR), and is a common cause of type 2 diabetes. Adiponectin is an adipose tissue protein that enhances insulin sensitivity and has anti-atherogenic properties. Objective: This study was done...

...-adjusted rates to world population of IFG, IGT, DM by fasting plasma only, DM by 2h-load test only, and all cases of DM were 9.3%, 9.6%, 16.1%, 8.4% and 25.3%, respectively. Male sex, rural residence, total obesity, abdominal obesity, viral infection, milk intake, and kwashiorkor were the univariate risk...

...David A. Good; John Cardinal; Robert S. Ware; Lisa Marks; Janine B. Kesting; Lionel C.K. Chan; Joanne T.E. Shaw Obesity is thought to be a major risk factor for the development of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes mellitus. However, not all obese or insulin resistant individuals develop T2DM...

... functional variant enhances susceptibility to insulin resistance and dyslipidemia in MetS subjects of an Asian Indian population. Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a cluster of metabolic abnormalities comprised of abdominal obesity, hyperinsulinemia, hypertension, and dyslipidemia. India is witnessing...