Ebrahim Shakiba; Nahid Khademi; Malihe Khoramdad; Yousef Alimohamadi; Neda Izadi
Volume 19, Issue 8 , August 2017, , Pages 1-6
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Background: There is some evidence suggesting that Body Mass Index (BMI) may increase plasma lipoprotein levels.Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the possible association between BMI and dyslipidemia among the government staff of Kermanshah.Methods: This descriptive-analytical cross-sectional ...
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Background: There is some evidence suggesting that Body Mass Index (BMI) may increase plasma lipoprotein levels.Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the possible association between BMI and dyslipidemia among the government staff of Kermanshah.Methods: This descriptive-analytical cross-sectional study was performed on the staff of 13 governmental organizations in Kermanshah (a city located in the west of Iran) in 2012. The staff was recruited using census method. We obtained information of 1496 staff aged 22 - 69 through the standardized stepwise questionnaire for NCDs risk factor surveillance. The staff was then physically examined by trained persons. Finally, their blood samples were obtained.Results: The prevalence of dyslipidemia was 16.6% in the study group, with the prevalence of 18.2% in men and 7.9% in women. There were also 53% (55.8% in men and 7.9% in women) and 17.8% (17.6% in men and 38.1% in women) prevalence rates for overweight and obesity, respectively. Dyslipidemia was significantly associated with factors such as BMI (P value = 0.004), gender (P value < 0.001), marital status (P value = 0.01), cigarette smoking (P value = 0.008), and hookah smoking (P value = 0.002), but not with passive smoking, age, education level, physical activity, FBS (fast blood sugar), WHR (waist to hip ratio), hypertension, waist size, and hip size.In the adjusted model, there was a link merely between obesity and dyslipidemia while no statistically significant association was found between dyslipidemia and overweight. Moreover, a non-linear dose-response association was observed between dyslipidemia and BMI.Conclusions: Since dyslipidemia was significantly prevalent among men, fat people, and smokers, a particular attention is crucial to be paid to these groups.
Malihe Khoramdad; Yousef Alimohamadi; Saeed Safiri; Reza Pakzad; Ebrahim Shakiba; Jabbar Shafiei; Alireza Firouzi
Volume 19, Issue 7 , July 2017, , Pages 1-9
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Context: The relationship between dairy products consumption and the incidence of diabetes is investigated in various studies leading to contradictory results; therefore, the current meta-analytical study aimed at shedding light on the matter and estimating the potentiality of diabetes resulting from ...
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Context: The relationship between dairy products consumption and the incidence of diabetes is investigated in various studies leading to contradictory results; therefore, the current meta-analytical study aimed at shedding light on the matter and estimating the potentiality of diabetes resulting from consuming dairy products.Evidence Acquisition: The study used some reliable electronic databases such as Web of Science, Scopus, Science Direct, and PubMed revised to March 2016. All original articles from prospective cohort and case-cohort studies examining the relationship between dairy products consumption and the risk of diabetes were considered without any restrictions on age, gender, language, race, and publication year. To assess the quality of the study, the STROBE (strengthening the reporting of observational studies in epidemiology) checklist was employed. The indices of relative risk and rate ratio were reported using the random effect model.Results: Out of 1391 articles, 14 studies (covering 458,082 subjects) were included in the current meta-analysis. The findings showed that consuming dairy products prevents diabetes: total dairy decreases the risk of diabetes by 8% to 12% (relative risk = 0.88 (95%CI: 0.80, 0.96), rate ratio = 0.92 (95%CI: 0.88, 0.97)). The decrease adds up from 11% to 19% in the case of consuming low-fat dairy (relative risk = 0.81 (95%CI: 0.68, 0.96); rate ratio = 0.89 (95%CI: 0.85, 0.93)). In spite of the fact that high-fat dairy diminishes the risk of diabetes, the relationship is not statistically significant (relative risk = 0.98 (95%CI: 0.78, 1.24); rate ratio = 1.01 (95%CI: 0.96, 1.06)).Conclusions: The current study indicated that the consumption of total dairy and low-fat dairy had a preventive impact on the incidence of diabetes; therefore, it seems that drawing up some plans in this regard decreases the risk of the disease.
