Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a cluster of symptoms that increase risk for heart disease and type 2 diabetes. Therefore, early detection of MetS is vital for disease prevention. Gestational diabetes (GDM) and/or obesity during pregnancy are associated with a greater risk for MetS…
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The practice of mindfulness has a long history in research, particularly psychological studies. In this paper I examine the effects of a short mindfulness intervention on healthy food purchases. Specifically, I developed an online survey and recruited 634 participants via Prolif…
Emerging adults are at high risk for excess weight gain. Unfortunately, few weight gain prevention interventions have shown efficacy in this age group. Weight suppression, traditionally defined as the difference between highest lifetime weight and current weight, is a robust pre…
Background: Type 2 Diabetes mellitus (T2DM), which was rare three decades ago, now accounts for 15-45% of all newly diagnosed cases of diabetes in children and adolescents. This rise goes concurrently with the obesity epidemic in youth and African Americans (AA) are disproportio…
Background: Obesity is a major global public health problem and in the United States (US),where the prevalence is disproportionate across racial and socioeconomic groups, notably among African Americans. The use of spiritual and faith-based interventions to improve health outcom…
Overweight/obesity rates in children of immigrants from low-and-middle-income-countries not only eclipse rates in their origin countries, they also exceed rates in their host nation. My mixed-method research seek to understand this conundrum, to inform a more effective, and equi…
Background: CVD is one of the main causes of death in the United States, and hypertension is a primary risk factor of this disease. Therefore, the primary causes of hypertension need to be identified so they may be addressed for treatment. Hypertension is known to be brought on …
Introduction: A significant number of nurses are overweight and obese, which poses a risk to their health and wellbeing. This study uncovered a theory illustrating how nurses who are obese manage their weight and how the process was influenced by personal, contextual, situationa…
Type 2 diabetes is one of the top-10 causes of morbidity and mortality in the US, and disproportionally affects racial/ethnic minorities. Obesity is a well-known cause of type 2 diabetes, and in the past three decades, the obesity epidemic has contributed significantly to the dr…
The obesity epidemic is a rapidly growing problem in the African American community. Specifically, obesity is destroying the health of African American women. Yet, some African American women are not aware that carrying extra weight affects their overall health. This study exami…
The study was conducted in Dubai, one of the main Emirate states. It is a cross sectional descriptive study, conducted between January and April 2004. The sample size was 661(324 males and 337 females). These were all local national students from preparatory and secondary school…
There is a growing public health concern over the effects that sedentary lifestyles are having on the health of young people, particularly in relation to overweight and obesity. This thesis presents five studies which examine the prevalence, incidence and determinants of sedenta…
The prevalence of obesity is growing worldwide partly due to an increase in consumption of diets high in fat. Obesity is known as a risk factor for developing Alzheimer’s disease (AD) later in life. Both obesity and AD are associated with cognitive deficits and experimental high…
Obesity is a worldwide epidemic. Countries in the Middle East, Central and Eastern Europe, as well as North America have the highest prevalence of obesity in the world. Perimenopause is a transitional period in the life of a woman, occurring a few years before and a year after m…
Obesity is an independent risk factor for ischaemic stroke and may worsen stroke outcome. Therefore, the objective of this thesis was to identify potential interactions between obesity and stroke, with particular focus on inflammatory mechanisms. Ischaemic stroke was surgically …
Obesity affects about 520 million people world-wide and more recently studies have shown that fat cells produce proteins called adipokines which have various influences on the human metabolism and has helped to change the perspectives of researchers on the concept of the adipose…
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a leading non-communicable disease with increasing health, socio-economic implications and with pharmacological agents that fail to replicate the success of bariatric surgery. This thesis aims to evaluate the therapeutic potential of customised…
Background: Tower Hamlets is a socioeconomically disadvantaged borough, home to the UK’s largest South Asian population, a group at increased risk of obesity-related diseases. Previous studies in this population have reported high levels of adiposity and inactivity. No borough-w…
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the most common endocrinopathy disorder in reproductive age women. The symptoms of this disorder are the androgen excess seen with anovulation/oligoovulation or morphologically ovarian cysts. The aim of the study was to assess the efficacy of …