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The amount of epidural fat at the L3 level was assessed in 30 consecutive patients undergoing computed tomography of the lumbar spine. The amount of fat around the antero-posterior diameter of the canal, the thecal cross-sectional area and the obesity index. Men had a greater quantity of epidural fat than women, although this difference did not reach statistical significance when allowances were made for the inherent difference in size of vertebral structures between the sexes.
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PMID:Who has most epidural fat? Information from computed tomography. 370 49

A total of 5665 workers of food and light industry were studied according to the investigation program on nutritional state during 1979-1983. Height, chest diameter, body mass and somatotype of each examinee (according to the Stremgren index) were determined. The contingent of workers studied was represented by age groups in decades from 18 to 70 years. While analyzing the nutritional state they were divided into 9 categories. The weight ranging from -10 to +9% of the optimal weight was considered to be normal. Men working in food industry showed increasing age groups having overweight beginning from 31-40 years of age. The percentage of women with overweight working in food industry was from 52.91 to 83.44. Obese women constituted a high percent. A similar nutritional state was recorded in women working in light industry: 90.38% had overweight at the age of 51-60 years. The analysis of the body mass among the eldest men and women, especially, (60-70 years) shows that those with lower body weight are more capable of working at the age of pension.
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PMID:[Nutritional status of workers from the viewpoint of their physical development]. 379 48

There is a correlation between body weight or obesity and blood pressure in the population, and most hypertensive patients are overweight. Weight reduction of 6 kg or more reduces blood pressure by an average of 15/9 mmHg even if the ideal body weight is not attained, and this is not explained by changes in salt intake or by measurement artefact due to the fat arm. Some form of calorie restriction is the mainstay of managing obesity in hypertensive patients, and those referred to a dietitian lose significantly more weight tham those given a diet sheet by a doctor or given no specific advice. About 50% of patients referred to a dietitian reduce their body weight by 6 kg or more. There is a tendency to regain weight in the long-term, but after four years more than one third of patients remain at least 6 kg below their initial weight. Men seem to lose relatively little weight whether or not they are referred to a dietitian, whereas women referred to a dietitian achieve substantial and sustained weight loss.
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PMID:Compliance with weight reduction in hypertensive patients. 387 Apr 75

In Sweden, coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality increased by 30% among 50- to 54-year-old men and by 20% among 55- to 59-year-old men between 1968 and 1980. Among women there was no change during the same time. Two cohorts of 50-year-old men living in Gothenburg, Sweden, were examined 10 years apart (1963-1973): Levels of the 3 major CHD risk factors, blood pressure, serum cholesterol and smoking habits, were similar in these two cohorts. Men in the latest examined cohort had almost doubled the 7-year incidence of fatal and non-fatal CHD compared to men in the first examined cohort. Obesity was more prevalent among men examined in 1973 and also a significant risk factor for CHD in that cohort. Increased obesity and very slightly increased serum cholesterol levels can, however, only explain part of the increased incidence of CHD. Hypertension is being more effectively treated, the prevalence of smokers has decreased, and treatment of symptomatic CHD is similarly active in Sweden as in many other countries. Thus, several changes largely parallel those taking place in countries with decreasing CHD mortality. In spite of this, CHD mortality is increasing among males in Sweden. Possible reasons for this are discussed.
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PMID:Increasing mortality from coronary heart disease among males in Sweden. 387 76

The relationship between body fat distribution patterns and somatotype among 824 men was sought from Sheldon, Dupertuis and MacDermott's Atlas of Men (1954). The men were classified photoscopically into obese, overweight and normal weight classes and then into android (central), intermediate and gynoid (generalized) classes of body fat patterning independently and blindly by two observers. Android fat men were found by both observers to be older and more often classed as obese than gynoid fat men. The android obese were significantly more mesomorphic and less endomorphic than the gynoid obese (P less than 0.01). Results suggest that android obesity involves more than an upper body distribution of subcutaneous fat: it is a deep body obesity involving excess lean body mass as well.
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PMID:Android (centralized) obesity and somatotypes in men: association with mesomorphy. 403 21

The distribution of adipose tissue thickness, fat cell weight (FCW), and number (FCN) were studied in four regions in randomly selected middle-aged men and women and in 930 obese individuals. Both the obese and the randomly selected men were found to have the largest adipose tissue thickness in the abdominal region. Women, however, showed a relative preponderance for the gluteal and femoral regions. FCW increased with expanding body fat up to a maximal size of approximately 0.7-0.8 micrograms/cell in each region. After this increase in FCW, a more rapid increase in FCN was found. For the same degree of relative overweight, men had higher triglyceride, fasting glucose, and insulin levels; higher sums of glucose and insulin levels during an oral glucose tolerance test; and higher blood pressure. Furthermore, elevated fasting glucose levels (greater than 7.4 mM) occurred twice as often in the males. These differences between males and females persisted even after body fat matching. A male risk profile was seen in women characterized by abdominal obesity (high waist/hip circumference ratio) as compared to women with the typical peripheral obesity. Stepwise multiple regression analyses in both women and men showed the obesity complications to be associated in a first step to waist/hip circumference or body fat and in a second to abdominal fat cell size. It may thus be concluded that: (a) In both obese and nonobese subjects, regional differences exist between the sexes with regard to adipose tissue distribution. (b) Moderate expansion of body fat is mainly due to FCW enlargement, which is subsequently followed by increased FCN. (c) Men and women with a male abdominal type of obesity are more susceptible to the effect of excess body fat on lipid and carbohydrate metabolism.
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PMID:Impact of obesity on metabolism in men and women. Importance of regional adipose tissue distribution. 635 Mar 64

College students ate two high preference or two low preference doughnuts under high or low hunger conditions. Subjects were led to believe that we were interested in preference ratings made after eating the doughnuts. The number of bites and the total snack time were covertly recorded. Having weighed the doughnuts previously, we calculated the bite size (amount per bite), bite speed (time per bite), and eating rate (amount per second). Eating rate increased as obesity, body size, hunger, and preference increased; men ate at a faster rate than women. Larger bites accounted for the increased rate of the obese, the high preference subjects, and those having a larger body size. The hungry subjects increased their eating rate by taking faster bites. Men ate faster than women by taking both larger but slower bites. Thus eating rate is under multiple control. The data also suggest that the effects of obesity and, in part, gender on these eating responses may be more parsimoniously explained as body size effects. Modification of these within-session eating responses in order to regulate food intake will be successful only when the relationships among these measures are understood.
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PMID:Contributions of obesity, gender, hunger, food preference, and body size to bite size, bite speed, and rate of eating. 651 69

The Social Insurance Institution's Coronary Heart Disease Study is a prospective population study designed to investigate the prevalence, risk factors and incidence of coronary heart disease (CHD) in middle-aged Finnish men and women. The study population consisted of 5 738 men and 5 224 women, aged 30-59 years at entry, drawn from 12 cohorts from south-western, western, central and eastern Finland. The cohorts consisted of whole or random samples of rural or semiurban dwellers or employees of a factory. The participation rate was 90 per cent. The prevalence of symptoms was determined by the Rose questionnaire and abnormalities on resting ECG were coded according to the Minnesota code. Blood pressure, smoking habits, serum cholesterol, triglycerides, postload plasma glucose and obesity were the risk factors analysed at the baseline examination. The mortality of examinees has been followed continuously. This report deals with the main findings at the baseline examination and the mortality follow-up experience in 5 years. The prevalence of typical angina pectoris was 4.4 per cent in men and 5.4 per cent in women. Unequivocal ECG signs of past myocardial infarction were observed in 1.0 per cent of men and 0.3 per cent of women. Other ECG findings suggesting CHD were observed in 9.2 per cent of men and 11.1 per cent of women. The 5-year mortality was 4.3 per cent in men and 0.9 per cent in women. Men with typical chest pain symptoms had a seven-fold risk to die from CHD, compared to men without symptoms. Men with ECG abnormalities compatible with an old infarction had a 19.5-fold and men with other ECG findings suggesting CHD a 7.1-fold risk to die from CHD compared to men without resting ECG abnormalities. Men with ECG findings as the only indicator of CHD had worse survival than men with symptoms as the only indicator of CHD. The value of symptoms and ECG findings as predictors of CHD mortality in women was very low.
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PMID:The Social Insurance Institution's coronary heart disease study. Baseline data and 5-year mortality experience. 657 75

The nature of the association between alcohol consumption and blood pressure has been studied in 491 working men in Western Australia. The effect of alcohol on systolic blood pressure was seen to be independent of obesity, age, cigarette smoking, coffee or tea consumption, educational attainment or personality type. Ex-heavy drinkers had similar blood pressures to teetotallers. Men drinking the equivalent of three or more glasses of beer a day had a 10.4% prevalence of hypertension compared with 2.6% in teetotallers while the most introverted tertile of non-smoking drinkers had a 22% prevalence of hypertension. Possible mechanisms by which repeated alcohol ingestion might lead to hypertension are discussed in the light of hemodynamic and biochemical studies in pairs of drinkers and teetotallers.
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PMID:Alcohol and hypertension. 659 57

Among 157 patients with borderline hypertension 33.8% developed established hypertension (H), 28.6% became normotensive (N), and 37.6% still had borderline hypertension (BH) during a 3 to 10 year follow-up period (an average of 6.4 years). Significant differences in the clinical data among these 3 groups at the first examination were observed in systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), age, obesity, known duration of hypertension and SV1 + RV5 on an electrocardiogram. Analysis of variance showed that SBP increased with age in both sexes, while DBP of men less than 49 years of age was higher in the H group than in the other groups. Obesity and duration of hypertension appeared to contribute to the later development of hypertension because of a higher blood pressure. Obese men in the H group generally had higher DBP than nonobese patients in the other groups. Men with a longer history of hypertension in the H group also had a higher initial blood pressure. SV1 + RV5 in many of the subgroups of the H group was often higher in similar subgroups of the other groups. These inter-subgroup differences may affect the statistical differences in the above-mentioned parameters among the 3 groups. The mean value and standard deviation of SBP and DBP of diurnal blood pressure measurements were in the order of established hypertensives, borderline hypertensives and normotensive subjects when power-normal distribution was applied. There was no evidence that lability of blood pressure was a characteristic feature of borderline hypertension.
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PMID:Predictors of future established hypertension and diurnal blood pressure variability in borderline hypertension. 668 53


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