Adult Weight, Genetics and Lifestyle Factors

St Mary's University College

Status: Completed

Conditions: Obesity

Treatments: Other: No intervention

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03666156

SMEC_2017-18_141

Details and patient eligibility

About

Childhood obesity leads to adulthood obesity, demonstrated in many retrospective and longitudinal studies. Genetics as a predictor of obesity is less established. Morandi et al, (2012) assessed whether lifestyle and genetic factors can be used to predict childhood obesity, concluding that genetics had minimal predictive effect. More recently Seyednasrollah, (2017) demonstrated that genetic information, when alongside clinical factors for cardiovascular disease, increased the predictive accuracy of obesity risk in adults. This study aims to investigate if known lifestyle and genetic risk factors are associated with BMI and if they can be used as predictors of overweight/obesity in adults.

Enrollment: 96 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• European Citizen.
• Aged between 18-65 years.
• Female.
• Caucasian

Exclusion criteria

• Currently following a diet or weight loss plan or have not been for over 6 months of the previous year.
• Suffering from diabetes (type I or II).
• Cancer, or have had cancer in the past.

Trial design

96 participants in 1 patient group

Whole Sample

Description:

Female, caucasians, aged 18-65 years

Treatment:

Other: No intervention