Gender is an important risk factor for the development of obesity. Female gender is
associated with twice the risk of being overweight or having obesity. Women are also at …

Abstract The South Asian population is rapidly ageing and sarcopenia is likely to become a
huge burden in this region if proper action is not taken in time. Several sarcopenia …

Background Cardiometabolic disorders are frequently observed among those who have
obesity as measured by body mass index (BMI). However, there is limited data available on …

Purpose Obesity has attained pandemic proportions across the world, and its prevalence in
developing countries is also on the rise. Nevertheless, there is still a large gap in …

Disorders like diabetes and obesity have reached pandemic proportions globally. However,
this problem is a little different in some tropical countries especially in the south Asian …

Background: The prevalence of obesity is increasing rapidly in India and so are its
associated comorbidities. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), the hepatic …

Normal weight obesity (NWO) is a new emerging phenotype of obesity, defined as a normal
body mass index with a high body fat percentage. While several studies have described the …

Background Visceral adipose tissue (VAT) assessment is limited in clinical practice due to
expensive, time consuming and limited availability of MRI and DXA machines. We explored …

Purpose Normal weight obesity (NWO) is a unique phenotype of obesity associated with
high cardiovascular mortality. There is limited literature on assessing the effect of therapeutic …

Background The rising prevalence of obesity in military personnel has raised great
concerns. Previous studies suggest that body mass index (BMI)-and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) …