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The Association between Body Mass Index and Health-Related Quality of Life in Treatment-Seeking Arab Adults with Obesity

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 ind...

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Autores principales: Itani, Leila, Calugi, Simona, Dalle Grave, Riccardo, Kreidieh, Dima, El Kassas, Germine, El Masri, Dana, Tannir, Hana, Harfoush, Aya, El Ghoch, Marwan
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5872182/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29534025
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medsci6010025
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author Itani, Leila
Calugi, Simona
Dalle Grave, Riccardo
Kreidieh, Dima
El Kassas, Germine
El Masri, Dana
Tannir, Hana
Harfoush, Aya
El Ghoch, Marwan
author_facet Itani, Leila
Calugi, Simona
Dalle Grave, Riccardo
Kreidieh, Dima
El Kassas, Germine
El Masri, Dana
Tannir, Hana
Harfoush, Aya
El Ghoch, Marwan
author_sort Itani, Leila
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description 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, p < 0.001). Moreover, logistic regression analysis showed that a one unit increase in BMI increases the odds of an ORWELL 97 score ≥ 71.75—considered indicative of a clinically significant impairment of HRQoL—by nearly 23% (odds ratio (OR), 95% CI = 1.23, 1.09–1.40, p < 0.05). If confirmed, our findings should prompt clinicians operating in Arab countries to encourage patients with obesity to initiate and persevere in weight-loss programs at the earliest opportunity.
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spelling pubmed-58721822018-03-30 The Association between Body Mass Index and Health-Related Quality of Life in Treatment-Seeking Arab Adults with Obesity Itani, Leila Calugi, Simona Dalle Grave, Riccardo Kreidieh, Dima El Kassas, Germine El Masri, Dana Tannir, Hana Harfoush, Aya El Ghoch, Marwan Med Sci (Basel) Article 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, p < 0.001). Moreover, logistic regression analysis showed that a one unit increase in BMI increases the odds of an ORWELL 97 score ≥ 71.75—considered indicative of a clinically significant impairment of HRQoL—by nearly 23% (odds ratio (OR), 95% CI = 1.23, 1.09–1.40, p < 0.05). If confirmed, our findings should prompt clinicians operating in Arab countries to encourage patients with obesity to initiate and persevere in weight-loss programs at the earliest opportunity. MDPI 2018-03-13 /pmc/articles/PMC5872182/ /pubmed/29534025 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medsci6010025 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Itani, Leila
Calugi, Simona
Dalle Grave, Riccardo
Kreidieh, Dima
El Kassas, Germine
El Masri, Dana
Tannir, Hana
Harfoush, Aya
El Ghoch, Marwan
The Association between Body Mass Index and Health-Related Quality of Life in Treatment-Seeking Arab Adults with Obesity
title The Association between Body Mass Index and Health-Related Quality of Life in Treatment-Seeking Arab Adults with Obesity
title_full The Association between Body Mass Index and Health-Related Quality of Life in Treatment-Seeking Arab Adults with Obesity
title_fullStr The Association between Body Mass Index and Health-Related Quality of Life in Treatment-Seeking Arab Adults with Obesity
title_full_unstemmed The Association between Body Mass Index and Health-Related Quality of Life in Treatment-Seeking Arab Adults with Obesity
title_short The Association between Body Mass Index and Health-Related Quality of Life in Treatment-Seeking Arab Adults with Obesity
title_sort association between body mass index and health-related quality of life in treatment-seeking arab adults with obesity
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5872182/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29534025
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medsci6010025
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