Determination of cortisol hormone level according to obesity classification in some adult men

Joint Authors

Ibrahim, Nuran Jamil
al-Aridi, Ghadir Hamid

Source

Mesopotamia Environment Journal

Publisher

University of Babylon Environmental Research and Studies Center

Publication Date

2018-12-31

Country of Publication

Iraq

No. of Pages

9

Main Subjects

Natural & Life Sciences (Multidisciplinary)

English Abstract

Objective: To evaluate whether serum concentration of cortisol in some healthy adult's men influenced by their characteristics of anthropometric measurements.

Subjects and Method: Ninety-eight volunteer adult's men non-smoking (20-50) years in this study, the blood samples were taken from subjects at the morning during 8:30-10:30 am during November 2015 till April 2016.

ELIZA kit was used to assay the serum level of cortisol hormone, and the anthropometric measurements have been done such as; body weight, height and waist circumference(WC) to calculated body mass index (BMI), and percentage of body fat (BF%) by a special formula and the subjects were assorted depending on classes of anthropometric (physical) measurements.

Results: cortisol level showed a significant decrease (p<0.05) in obese and overweight as compared with normal weight group in accordance with classes of BMI categories as well there was a significant decrease in obese group as compared with other group according to body fat percentage classification, also seen significant decrease of cortisol level in group with large waist circumference ≥ 90 as compared with small waist circumference group.

In addition, it was noticed that was a significant negative correlation between that tested hormone with anthropometric measurements Conclusion: Class of obesity was the key factor in deciding of tested hormone concentration and the state of correlation between hormone level and anthropometric values.

Data Type

Conference Papers

Record ID

BIM-835425

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