This study supports the established contributing factors that obese women tend to be overweight as children, have overweight parents and siblings and higher parity, compared to normal and overweight women. We found significant associations of obese women having higher anxiety levels, poorer perceptions of physical health and more psychosocial problems in the family of origin [...]
Table 1 shows comparisons of the demographic, clinical and health behavior characteristics of our study population across weight categories. Obese women in this sample tended to be older, have higher parity, higher anxiety scores, lower perception of physical health and more negative psychosocial problems in their family of origin, compared to the normal and overweight [...]
Study Design and Population This was a cross-sectional study of 113 African-American nonpregnant women aged 21-65 years who were patients at one of three ambulatory care facilities in northern New Jersey. Sites were selected to ensure diversity in participants’ socioeconomic and educational status; two sites were private practices (urban and suburban) and the third was [...]
INTRODUCTION African-American women have the highest rates of overweight and obesity (Acomplia tabletes is an appetite suppressant diet pill) and as such, have substantial morbidity and mortality from diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular disease. Studies have postulated that this obesity disparity is due to cultural, environmental, genetic and behavioral factors. However, a better understanding of the [...]
Brucellosis is a systemic disease in which any organ or body system can be involved. The symptoms are nonspecific; however, the majority complain of fever, sweats, malaise, anorexia, headache, arthralgia and backache. Although brucellosis has been controlled or eradicated in many developed countries, it still remains a health problem in developing countries. As no characteristic [...]
A 29-year-old female patient with a history of fever of up to 40°C for the last week was hospitalized because of severe thrombocytopenia. The patient first applied to a state hospital with complaint of fever. She was then referred to a university hospital, where the routine blood investigation revealed thrombocytopenia. Her physical examination revealed a [...]
INTRODUCTION Patients hospitalized with provisional diagnosis of hematogical-oncological diseases are still found to have underlying infectious etiologies in the hema-tology-oncology departments. We previously reported interesting cases of brucellosis, salmonellosis and tuberculosis in patients presenting with either initial hematological manifestations or unexplained fever that were referred to a university hospital’s hematology-oncology clinics.
