Many factors determine your health-related quality of life, including your weight. In General, more you - that is, the more you turns in the territory of overweight - the worst your quality of life. But a new study finds that some groups, such as women, are more negatively affected than others.
For the survey, researchers requested Romanian adult American aged 35-89 a series of questionnaires designed to measure physical and mental quality of life of the respondents. Issues included measures of mobility, pain, cognition, the "vitality", anxiety and depression, among other factors.
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Overall, the survey found, people with the mass index body "normal" (from 18.5 to 24.9) reported better health-quality of life related that the overweight (BMI 25 to 29.9) or obese (BMI of 30-50) respondents. But when researchers examined more closely the participants African-Americans, they found the group reported overweight of the higher notes to quality of life than their peers in normal weight and overweight.
Why this is the case is not clear, but researchers say the findings are in line with previous studies that have found a smaller association between increasing BMI and mortality among blacks than among the non-noirs. "The mechanisms by which overweight and obesity affect the daily life and mortality may also differ between the races," the authors write. "Way of life, roles, bodily pain, vitality or may simply be less affected by overweight among blacks, in the non-noirs."
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The questionnaires also has suggested that obese women were more likely to suffer from low quality of life than obese men, especially when it comes to mental health measures. The authors write:
[Lthough has] there is new evidence that obesity can be negatively related to mental health in women in non-U.S. media, our analysis is the first to indicate that such a reverse relationship can be significant in American women, while confirming evidence that men, the association seems important that with physical health.
It is perhaps due in part to the fact that obese women tend to suffer more stigma and bias that while both men. A study of the year last on the differences in salary between Obese Americans found that obese women tended to earn less than their counterparts of normal weight, while obese men suffer from compensation for their size. (For both sexes, however, the cost of obesity was high after factoring in days of illness and charges increases medical, premature death more high and even grocery bills the additional gas - the burden of your car, gas prices you engulfing.)
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"Our study did not examine why additional weight seems to be less of a burden for blacks and more a burden for women, but there are several possible explanations, said David Feeny of Kaiser Permanente Center for health research in Portland, Oregon, co-author, investigator of the current study." These are issues that should be addressed in future studies. ?
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