Biobehavioral Determinants of Obesity in Black Women
关键词
抽象
描述
BACKGROUND:
Behavioral medicine surveys consistently find that obesity is a treatment-resistant disease that continues to be a significant health problem and that the incidence of obesity is much higher in Blacks relative to whites in general, and even higher in Black women relative to white women. In fact, an NIH Program Announcement (PA-91-99), stated that "Obesity in adults has not declined in the past three decades" and "Obesity is particularly prevalent in minority populations, especially among minority women." Obesity is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease, stroke, and hypertension. Obesity is a complex phenomenon involving behavioral, lifestyle, and complex biobehavioral mechanisms. In 1995, there were no prospective studies that simultaneously evaluated a systematic set of psychosocial variables with energy balance (dietary intake, physical activity, resting metabolic rate) determinants that may account for the increased risk for obesity in African-American versus Euro-American women.
DESIGN NARRATIVE:
After subjects were recruited, psychosocial and energy balance (dietary intake, physical activity, metabolic rate) baseline measures were related to levels of body fat as measured by DEXA (dual electron X-ray absorptiometry). The role of these variables were evaluated prospectively to adiposity changes in both white and Black women over a 24-month period.
日期
最后验证: | 07/31/2004 |
首次提交: | 05/24/2000 |
提交的预估入学人数: | 05/24/2000 |
首次发布: | 05/25/2000 |
上次提交的更新: | 01/25/2016 |
最近更新发布: | 01/27/2016 |
实际学习开始日期: | 08/31/1995 |
预计完成日期: | 07/31/1998 |
状况或疾病
相
资格标准
有资格学习的性别 | Male |
接受健康志愿者 | 是 |
标准 | No eligibility criteria |