… This study was conducted as part of a larger cross-sectional study with twelve general
practices in three urban cities in two Australian states.28 Practices within a pre-defined region in …

… stores has been proposed as a prerequisite for increasing fat oxidation in response to a
high-fat diet in individuals with a predisposition to obesity. In a cross-sectional design we …

… a large study sample. Therefore, in our study, we aimed to examine whether non-obese
subjects with no chronic conditions but abdominal obesity had a higher chance of having related …

… study used a cross-sectional design. The participants were selected as a convenience sample
of consecutive patients … they presented the following inclusion criteria: BMI ≥ 30 kg/m 2 2. …

… A total of 2140 consecutive morbidly obese patients who attended the Morbid Obesity … this
cross-sectional study. We excluded 39 patients with BMI<35 kg/m 2 and 75 patients because …

… Firstly, this is a cross-sectional study, we could … fat distribution and cardiometabolic risk
factors. Secondly, participants of this study included overweight and obese Chinese young adults …

… study were to estimate the dynamic prevalence of overweight, general obesity, and
abdominal obesity … and WC were used to define general and abdominal obesity in this study, …

… prevalence of obesity in childhood. Since obese children have a high risk of becoming obese
adults, … in the prevalence of cardiovascular diseases and other diseases related to obesity. …

… First, given its cross-sectional design, the results of this study could not imply causality, but
are rather reflective of an association between exposure and outcome. However, in order to …

… The cross-sectional design of the present study represented a difficulty to … study were based
on two of the most important anthropometric variables (height and weight) and an index (BMI…