However, women with higher intakes of saturated and trans fat were slightly less likely to take vitamin E supplements and had slightly higher prevalence of obesity and current smoking.
Nationally representative surveys in each country and recently published studies have shown that Egyptian women, on average, have a slightly older age at menarche, have more children and have them at a younger age, are less likely to use oral contraceptives, and have a slightly higher prevalence of obesity than US women [ 29– 34].
It was slightly higher than Boulder's obesity rate in 2011 -- 12.1percentt -- but still less than half the national obesity rate of 26.2percentt.
Fasting plasma glucose (FPG) was slightly higher in the obese subjects than the lean subjects (P = 0.05) (Supplementary Table 1 A ), consistent with obesity-related insulin resistance (8).
The prevalence of obesity was slightly higher among children of white women than African-American women.
The prevalence of overweight was higher in men than in women, whereas the prevalence of obesity was slightly higher in men than in women.
In the EPIC-Potsdam study, however, the hazard ratio for abdominal obesity was slightly higher than that for impaired fasting glucose.
However, the prevalence of obesity was slightly higher in African American than in Hispanic children (32.8 % and 31.9 %, respectively) in this sample.
In this study, we report that obesity affects 10% of women of childbearing age in a Canadian urban setting, which is similar to Nova Scotia's Atlee perinatal database [ 24] but slightly higher than international assessments of obesity in pregnant women of 8% in Spain [ 25] and 6% in Australia [ 26].
Data on patient referrals were also estimated based on existing numbers accounting for the increased future demand for obesity services, hence slightly higher than the existing numbers.
