Aging
mahbobeh ziari; Amin Farzaneh hesari
Volume 27, Issue 6 , January and February 2021, , Pages 778-786
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Introduction: The Body Mass Index (BMI) and Waist circumference (WC) are well-used anthropometric predictors for cardiovascular diseases (CDV). Recently, two new anthropometric indices, the A Body Shape Index (BSI) and Body Roundness Index (BRI) have been developed. The main research aim is to compare ...
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Introduction: The Body Mass Index (BMI) and Waist circumference (WC) are well-used anthropometric predictors for cardiovascular diseases (CDV). Recently, two new anthropometric indices, the A Body Shape Index (BSI) and Body Roundness Index (BRI) have been developed. The main research aim is to compare BSI and BRI in healthy women and cardiovascular diseases and association between both with physical activity and anthropometric indices in middle-age and elderly women. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional observational study was carried out on 269 people (136 healthy women and 133 CDV) aged 40 to 70. Physical activity level was measured with IPAQ-SE and Participants divided into seven groups, based on physical activity level and CDV: CDV, active CDV risk factors, moderate active CDV risk factors, low active CDV risk factors, active healthy, moderate active healthy and low active healthy. A variety of anthropometric parameters were measured and calculated, including BSI, BRI, WC, BMI, fat mass percentage (%FM). For analyzing the data, one-way ANOVA test and Pearson correlation coefficient was used. Results: Significant increase for BSI (p=0/036) and BRI were observed in CDV than active healthy. In CDV, the relationship between BSI with WHR (r=0/59), physical activity level (r=-0/36) and between BRI with BMI (r=0/83), WHR (r=0/59), %FM (r=0/65) and physical activity level (r=0/22) was significant. Conclusion: The present study indicated that BRI, BSI and WHR were significant higher in CDV than healthy women. In CDV, BRI and BSI correlated with more anthropometric measures. Received
Foad Alimoradi; Shabnam Jaliloghadr; Amir Javadi; Maryam Javadi
Volume 22, Issue 4 , September and October 2015, , Pages 676-684
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Background and Objectives: Lipid disorders, which are associated with the risk factors for cardiovascular diseases, are increasing in adolescents. Studies are indicative of the relationship of blood lipid level and chronic diseases with anthropometric indices in adolescents. This study aims to investigate ...
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Background and Objectives: Lipid disorders, which are associated with the risk factors for cardiovascular diseases, are increasing in adolescents. Studies are indicative of the relationship of blood lipid level and chronic diseases with anthropometric indices in adolescents. This study aims to investigate lipid disorders and their relationship with anthropometric indices in adolescents. Materials and Methods: The sample of this descriptive and analytical study included 318 adolescents aged 10-18 who were selected and analyzed using stratified random sampling. The subjects’ demographic, anthropometric and biochemical data were obtained. The data were then analyzed using t-test, chi-square and ANOVA. Findings: Of the subjects, 19.5% had a total cholesterol above 170 mg/dl, 33.7% had a triglyceride level above 100 mg/dl, 12.6% had an LDL cholesterol level above 110 mg/dl, and 41% had an HDL cholesterol level below 40 mg/dl. The increase in BMI, waist circumference, waist to hip ratio, and waist to height ratio was accompanied by increased lipid disorders. Significance level was considered as 0.05. Conclusion: Although the use of anthropometric indicators alone cannot indicate the condition of the blood lipid profile in adolescents, but they can be used as a simple and accessible method.
Parvaneh Sarani Aliabadi; Hamed Sarani; Mansour Fazeli Rostampoor; Sodabeh Etemadi; Alireza Dashipoor; Afsaneh Sarabandi; Hasaniyeh Hosseini
Volume 21, Issue 4 , September and October 2014, , Pages 559-568
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Background: The prevalence of obesity is increasing as threatening in all age group in the world so it has became the serious problem in the public health ,Nowadays, the use of medicinal plants has have been considered more than other methods of weight control, the green tea is considered one of these ...
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Background: The prevalence of obesity is increasing as threatening in all age group in the world so it has became the serious problem in the public health ,Nowadays, the use of medicinal plants has have been considered more than other methods of weight control, the green tea is considered one of these plants that So far the researches have been done on its effects on weight But the results of these studies have been inconsistent due to various doses and different methods so, this study was conducted to determine the effect of various doses of green tea extract on weight loss and body mass index in adults obese women.
Materials and Methods: This double-blind clinical trial has randomly been conducted on 60 obese women that were overweight, with a BMI> 27 kg/m2, WC> 87 (waist). The samples were divided randomly into three groups of 20; in this regard, have received two intervention groups (experimental) recipient of green tea extract with different concentrations (50 and 100 percent) and control group (control) recipient of placebo containing cellulose. Each participant received daily three times (one hour before each meal) of green tea extract or placebo for 12 weeks. All samples were measured in the baseline and weeks 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 in terms of anthropometric measures (weight, height, waist circumference, hip circumference, body mass index (BMI) and waist-hip ratio (WHR). the data were collected and have been analyzed in the different groups By using of software SPSS 19 - Sas9.2 and statistical test of one-way Anova and was used repeated Measurement test for Comparisons of these groups
Results: In the baseline The mean and standard deviation of weight and BMI were in the experimental group which received 100% of extract, respectively74.19 ± 4.3 and 28.95 ± 0.8 and in the experimental groups which received extract 50% 1/5 ± 34/74 and 06/1 ± 69/28., which was reduced respectively, to 67.90 ± 4.1 and 26.49 ± 0.7 as well as 70.98 ± 5.6 and 27.38 ± 1.19 in the end of the study Which is indicative of a significant difference in the mean weight and BMI on these consecutive weeks(P < 0.01،P