Publications by authors named "Prasanna Prakash"
Background: Current prevalence estimates for diabetes in Arabian Gulf countries are some of the world's highest, yet regional trends and contributing factors are poorly documented. The present study was designed to determine temporal changes in the prevalence of impaired fasting glucose (IFG) and diabetes and associated factors in Kuwaiti adults.
Methods: Data analysis from the nationally representative cross-sectional Kuwait National Nutrition Surveillance System.
Objective: To determine temporal changes in hypercholesterolemia prevalence and associated factors in Kuwaiti adults.
Design: Analysis of nationally representative cross-sectional population survey data from the Kuwait National Nutrition Surveillance.
Methods: A total of 15,110 men and 17,701 women, aged 20-69 years, registered for employment or pensions, Hajj Pilgrimage health checkups, or were parents accompanying their children for immunization from 1998 through 2009.
Objective: To determine trends in prevalence of overweight and obesity in Kuwaiti adults, and to examine their association with selected sociodemographic and lifestyle factors.
Design: Analysis of cross-sectional population survey data from the Kuwait National Nutrition Surveillance System.
Setting: Social and health facilities in Kuwait.
Kuwaiti mothers' perception of their preschool children's weight status.
J Dev Behav Pediatr
January 2011
Objectives: To examine the accuracy of mothers' perceptions of their children's weight status, factors associated with their perceptions, and their plans for controlling their children's weights.
Method: Four hundred eighty-two overweight Kuwaiti preschool children and their mothers were selected from a sample of 2329 from the Kuwait Nutrition Surveillance System from September 2003 to June 2004. Heights and weights were measured for the children and their mothers to identify their weight status.
Objective: To ascertain abdominal obesity prevalence (waist circumference, WC) in adolescents and to develop smoothed WC percentile charts for Kuwaiti adolescents for public health use.
Subjects And Methods: A cross-sectional study of 4,219 healthy Kuwaiti male and female secondary school students between the ages of 11-19 years was examined. Adolescents were drawn from all geographical regions of the country, as part of the Kuwait Nutrition Surveillance Program (KNSP).
Objectives: To investigate the reasons for attempting to lose weight and identify weight loss perception and characteristics.
Methods: A cross-sectional survey of a sample of 526 Kuwaiti adults was carried out at the Central Medical Nutrition Clinic, Kuwait, from August to December 2003. Heights and weights were measured and body mass index (BMI) was calculated and classified according to WHO grades of obesity.