ArticleMedical sciences (Basel, Switzerland)2018
The Association between Body Mass Index and Health-Related Quality of Life in Treatment-Seeking Arab Adults with Obesity.
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- Association between waterpipe smoking and obesity: Population-based study in Qatar.Tobacco induced diseases · 2022Article
- Lifetime Weight Cycling and Central Fat Distribution in Females With Obesity: A Brief Report.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- An observational descriptive cross sectional multicenter study of health related quality of life among Iraqi patients after total hip replacement.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2019Article
- Association Between Smoking Hookahs (Shishas) and Higher Risk of Obesity: A Systematic Review of Population-Based Studies.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2019Review
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Abstract
Few studies have thus far been carried out on Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) and obesity in Arab-speaking countries, an issue that we therefore set out to investigate in this study. HRQoL was assessed by the validated Arabic version of the ORWELL 97 questionnaire in 129 treatment-seeking individuals with obesity referred to the Nutritional and Weight Management Outpatient Clinic at the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics of Beirut Arab University (BAU) in Lebanon, and 129 normal-weight participants of similar age and gender. Participants with obesity, regardless of gender, displayed higher total ORWELL 97 scores when compared with normal-weight controls, indicating that obesity is associated with lower HRQoL. Linear regression analysis showed that a higher body mass index (BMI) is associated with an increase in ORWELL 97 scores, but only among female, not male, participants with obesity (β = 2.89, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.43-4.53,
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