Serum Uric Acid Level and Inflammation in Obese Medical Students at Ain Shams University

Abstract

he high prevalence of overweight and obesity represents a great challenge for prevention of chronic diseases (Tutunchi 2019). The first step in community health planning is screening and categorizing overweight and obesity via easy and precise methods (Hoseinikhorrami, 2007). Obesity, defined as excess of body fat, can be detected accurately using dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques (Neeland, 2016). However, these methods, in addition to being expensive and time consuming, require special skills and they cannot be easily performed in large groups of population. Body mass index (BMI) is considered an accepted method for screening general obesity and can represent overall obesity without providing any information about body fat distribution in particular (Tutunchi, 2020). The use of waist circumference measurements is less time-consuming, convenient and simple method. It has also been suggested that WHR can be used for assessing central obesity, visceral fat and the risk factors for chronic diseases (Ahmad, 2016). Also, waist/hip ratio (WHR) is suggested as an anthropometric indicator to assess central adiposity.