Studying the effects of socio-demographic factors and medical history of recurrent infections, chronic diseases, smoking and drugs intake on obesity prevalence in adults
Journal Title: Scholars Academic Journal of Biosciences - Year 2015, Vol 3, Issue 11
Abstract
Abstract: This study aims at studying the effect of socio-demographic factors and medical history of recurrent infections, chronic diseases, smoking habits and chronic use of drugs on obesity prevalence in adults. This work was applied on 50 obese subjects visited to the Nutrition Center of Marjan hospital in Babylon province from October 2014 to January 2015. Obese subjects consisted of 39 females and 11 males with age range 20-60 years. This study involved also 30 apparently health subjects (normal weighted) as controls, which consisted of 21 males and 9 females with age range 22-50 years. Body mass index for each subject was estimated, socio-demographic factors and medical history of recurrent infections, chronic diseases, smoking and chronic use of drugs also have been determined in a special questionnaire. In socio-demographic factors, the age, residence, occupational state, educational level were significantly associated with obesity prevalence (p˂0.05), while gender was highly significant associated with obesity (p˂0.001), marital status not associated (p>0.05). In medical history, recurrent infections and chronic diseases were a highly significant associated with obesity (p˂0.001), and chronic use of drugs was significantly associated with obesity (p>0.05). smoking habits non- significantly associated with obesity, and increasing of pack-year unit paralleled to decreasing of BMI.The results provide a good correlation between socio-demographic factors and obesity; and medical history of chronic diseases, recurrent infections, chronic uses of drugs, smoking habits and obesity. Keywords: Body mass index, obesity.
Authors and Affiliations
Mohammad A. K. Al-Saadi, Hadeel F. Farhood, Fouad Q. J. Al-Zayadi
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP378477
- DOI -
- Views 55
- Downloads 0
High Performance Liquid Chromatographic Determination of Residue pesticides in Samples of Apple, Cucumber, Guava, and Garden Egg
It has been established that certain foods, such as fruits and vegetables, contain high levels of pesticide residue; contaminated with pesticides during pre- and post-harvest. In order to avoid health risks to consumers,...
Synthesis and Characterization of Some Novel Ferrocenyl Derivatives of Pyrazole Analogues
Abstract: Pyrazoles have been studied for over a century as an important class of heterocyclic compounds and continue to attract considerable interest due to the broad range of biological activities they possess. The inc...
Evaluation of Some Niger Morphotypes of Voandzou (Vigna subterraneaL. Verdc.) in early stress conditions
Bambara Groundnut (BGN) (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) Could be of great importance in the semi-arid Sahel, for its nutritional quality and its ability to fertilize the soil. Unfortunately, yields were very low due to t...
A Review of New Method of Cold Plasma in Cancer Treatment
Abstract: Cold atmospheric plasma (CAP) is a semi-ionizing gas with ions, electrons, and particles without charge such as atoms. CAP is produced by different methods such as atmospheric plasma jet (APPJ), pencil plasma a...
Hyperhomocysteinemia – An Independent Risk Factor in a Young Male with Cryptogenic Stroke
Hyperhomocysteinemia has been shown to have increase role in stoke but it has not been proven to be an independent risk factor in cryptogenic stroke. The main purpose of this study was to evaluate whether hyperhomocystei...