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ArticleScientific reports2023

Sedentary lifestyle with increased risk of obesity in urban adult academic professionals: an epidemiological study in West Bengal, India.

Sunandini Ghosh, Manabi Paul, Kousik Kumar Mondal, Sandip Bhattacharjee, Pritha Bhattacharjee

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Article in Scientific reports, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sunandini GhoshEnvironmental Epigenomics Lab, Department of Environmental Science, University of Calcutta, 35, Ballygunge Circular Road, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700019, India.ORCID 0000-0003-3072-0538
Manabi PaulEnvironmental Epigenomics Lab, Department of Environmental Science, University of Calcutta, 35, Ballygunge Circular Road, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700019, India.ORCID 0000-0002-8183-8299
Kousik Kumar MondalDepartment of Zoology, Mugberia Gangadhar Mahavidyalaya, Bhupati Nagar, West Bengal, Purba Medinipur, 721425, India.ORCID 0000-0002-9793-5341
Sandip BhattacharjeeHealth Management, Siemens Limited, Mumbai, India.
Pritha BhattacharjeeEnvironmental Epigenomics Lab, Department of Environmental Science, University of Calcutta, 35, Ballygunge Circular Road, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700019, India. 777.pritha@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-4623-7746
University of Calcutta · IN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ectopic fat deposition is more strongly associated with obesity-related health problems including type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), cardiovascular diseases (CVD), hypothyroidism, arthritis, etc. Our study aimed at identifying the cumulative role of several risk factors in developing obesity and the role of ectopic fat (visceral fat) in predicting cardiovascular disease risk in varied age groups among urban adult academic professionals in West Bengal. 650 adults (Male = 456; Female = 194) associated with the academic job (age 20-65 years) in urban West Bengal were randomly selected for anthropometric, blood biochemical, and questionnaire-based analyses. Body Mass Index and Visceral Fat% exhibited comparable association with all the other anthropometric parameters (e.g. Whole body Subcutaneous fat%: male-Linear Regression Comparison: F = 11.68; P < 0.001; female-F = 6.11; P < 0.01). Therefore, VF% acts as a risk factor alongside BMI in instances where BMI fails alone. The presence of T2DM, hypertension, and hypothyroidism in the case groups confirmed their obesity-associated longitudinal pattern of inheritance. Unhealthy diet pattern indicates improper liver function, vitamin D deficiency, and increased erythrocytic inflammation. An overall sedentary lifestyle with parental history of obesity was found to be significant in the longitudinal transmission of the disease.

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Cardiovascular DiseasesDiabetes Mellitus, Type 2AdultAgedBody Mass IndexEpidemiologic StudiesFemaleHumansIndiaMaleMiddle AgedObesityRisk FactorsSedentary BehaviorYoung Adult

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