Biobehavioral Determinants of Obesity in Black Women

Obesity Clinical Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00005386
• Other study ID #: 4292
• Secondary ID: R01HL053261
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: May 25, 2000
• Last updated: January 26, 2016
• Start date: September 1995
• Est. completion date: August 1998

Study information

• Verified date: August 2004
• Source: University of Memphis
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Federal Government
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

To examine the biobehavioral determinants of obesity in Black as compared with white women.

Description:

BACKGROUND:

Behavioral medicine surveys consistently find that obesity is a treatment-resistant disease that continues to be a significant health problem and that the incidence of obesity is much higher in Blacks relative to whites in general, and even higher in Black women relative to white women. In fact, an NIH Program Announcement (PA-91-99), stated that "Obesity in adults has not declined in the past three decades" and "Obesity is particularly prevalent in minority populations, especially among minority women." Obesity is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease, stroke, and hypertension. Obesity is a complex phenomenon involving behavioral, lifestyle, and complex biobehavioral mechanisms. In 1995, there were no prospective studies that simultaneously evaluated a systematic set of psychosocial variables with energy balance (dietary intake, physical activity, resting metabolic rate) determinants that may account for the increased risk for obesity in African-American versus Euro-American women.

DESIGN NARRATIVE:

After subjects were recruited, psychosocial and energy balance (dietary intake, physical activity, metabolic rate) baseline measures were related to levels of body fat as measured by DEXA (dual electron X-ray absorptiometry). The role of these variables were evaluated prospectively to adiposity changes in both white and Black women over a 24-month period.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 0
• Est. completion date: August 1998
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Male
• Age group: N/A to 100 Years
• Eligibility: No eligibility criteria

Study Design

N/A

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Cardiovascular Diseases
• Heart Diseases
• Obesity
• Telangiectasis

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Memphis	National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

References & Publications (2)

Scarinci IC, Slawson DL, Watson JM, Klesges RC, Murray DM. Socioeconomic status, ethnicity, and health care access among young and healthy women. Ethn Dis. 2001 Winter;11(1):60-71. — View Citation

Scarinci IC, Watson JM, Slawson DL, Klesges RC, Murray DM, Eck-Clemens LH. Socioeconomic status, ethnicity, and environmental tobacco exposure among non-smoking females. Nicotine Tob Res. 2000 Nov;2(4):355-61. — View Citation