Association between body composition and khat chewing in Ethiopian adults

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Girma, Tsinuel ^a   Mossie, Andualem ^a   Getu, Yesufe ^b  

^a JIMMA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b Save the Children International   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Bioimpedance; Body composition; Catha edulis Forsk; Fat free mass; Fat mass; Khat chewing

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BODY COMPOSITION; CATHA; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BODY COMPOSITION; CATHA; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84947077021     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13104-015-1601-2     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Cox G, Rampes H. Adverse effects of khat: a review. Adv Psychiat Treat 2003;456-63.
2. AlMotarreb A, Baker K, Broadley KJ. Khat: pharmacological and medical aspects and its social use in Yemen. Phytother Res. 2002;16:403-13.
3. Ishraq DB, Jiri SB. Khat habit and its health effect. A natural amphetamine. Biomed Papers. 2004;148(1):11-5.
4. Al-Dubai W, AL-Habori M, Al-Geiry A. Human khat (Catha edulis) chewers have elevated plasma leptin and nonesterified fatty acids. Nutr Res. 2006;26:632-6.
5. Getahun W, Gedif T, Tesfaye F. Regular Khat (Catha edulis) chewing is associated with elevated diastolic blood pressure among adults in Butajira, Ethiopia: a comparative study. BMC Public Health. 2010;10:390.
6. Walid AD, Molham AH, Ahmed AG. Human khat (Catha edulis) chewers have elevated plasma leptin and nonesterified fatty acids. Nutr Res. 2006;26:632-6.
7. Siri WE. Body composition from fluid spaces and density: analysis of methods. In: Brozek J, Henschel A (editors). Techniques for measuring body composition Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences. 1961. p. 223-44.
8. Baumgartner RN. Electrical impedance and total body electrical conductivity. In: Roche AF, Heymsfield SB, Lohman TG, editors. Human body composition. Champaign: Human Kinetics; 1996. p. 79-107.
9. Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. Central statistical Authority of Ethiopia. National Statistics. Ethiopia: Addis Ababa; 2005.
10. Grace A, Ferdinand M. Prevalence of obesity and associated risk factors among adults in Kinondonimunicipal district, Dare Salaam Tanzania. BMC Public Health. 2011;11(365):1-7.
11. WHO STEPwise approach to chronic disease risk factor surveillance fact sheet. Ethiopia (Addis Ababa) STEP survey 2006. http://www.who.int/chp/steps.
12. World Health Organization: Obesity: Preventing and Managing the Global Epidemic. WHO Obesity Technical Report Series 894. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization 2000.
13. Wang Y, Beydoun M. The obesity epidemic in the United States gender, age, socioeconomic, racial/ethnic, and geographic characteristics: a systematic review and meta-regression analysis. Epidemiology. 2007;29:6-28.
14. Body composition analyzer BC-418MA instruction manual, 2002.
15. Bray GA. Who are the obese? Body composition and prevalence. Contemporary diagnosis and management of obesity. Newton: Handbooks in Health Care; 1998. p. 9-34.
16. Sonia AT. Phytochemicals in the control of human appetite and body. Weight Pharm (Basel). 2010;3(3):748-63.
17. Toennes S, Harder S, Schramm M, Niess C. Kauert. G: Pharmacokinetics of cathinone, cathine and norephedrine after the chewing of khat leaves. Br J Clin Pharmacol. 2003;56:125-30.
18. John U, Hanke M, Rumpf HJ, Thyrian JR. Smoking status, cigarettes per day, and their relationship to overweight and obesity among former and current smokers in a national adult general population sample. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord. 2005;29:1289-94.
19. Heymann TD, Bhupulan A, Zureikat NE, et al. Khat chewing delays gastric emptying of a semi-solid meal. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 1995;9:81-3.
20. Boneva A, Boyanov M. Body composition analysis by leg-to-leg bioelectrical impedance and by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry in non-obese and obese individuals. Diabetes Obes Metab. 2008;10:1012-8.
21. Jackson AS, Stanforth PR, Gagnon J, Rankinen T, Leon AS, Rao DC, Skinner JS, Bouchard C, Wilmore JH. The effect of sex, age and race on estimating percentage body fat from body mass index: the Heritage Family Study. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord. 2002;26(6):789-96.
22. Olatunbosun ST, Kaufman JS, Bella AF. Prevalence of obesity and overweight in urban adult Nigerians. Obesity. 2011;12:233-41.