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The purposes of this study were to: (i) provide contemporary estimates of the prevalence of abdominal obesity, as assessed by waist circumference (WC), in Canadian adolescents and adults; (ii) provide estimates of the prevalence of abdominal obesity within normal weight, overweight and obese body mass index categories and (iii) examine secular changes in abdominal obesity. Data were based on three...
Aims/hypothesis The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships among adiposity, physical activity, physical fitness and the development of diabetes in a diverse sample of Canadians. Methods The sample included 1,543 adults (709 men and 834 women) from the Canadian Physical Activity Longitudinal Study who were free of diabetes at baseline (1988). Several indicators of adiposity (BMI,...
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