Healthy lifestyle factors associated with reduced cardiometabolic risk

A Healthy Lifestyle Score Is Associated with Cardiometabolic and Neuroendocrine Risk Factors among Puerto Rican Adults.

BACKGROUND Although individual healthy lifestyle behaviors may reduce cardiovascular disease risk, few studies have analyzed the combined effect of multiple lifestyle components as one all-inclusive measure on such outcomes, much less in minority populations. OBJECTIVE We aimed to develop a Healthy Lifestyle Score (HLS) that included several lifestyle recommendations and to test its associati...

High cardiometabolic risk in healthy Chilean adolescents: associations with anthropometric, biological and lifestyle factors.

OBJECTIVE To analyse the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in healthy adolescents of low to middle socio-economic status and to study the influence of anthropometric, biological and lifestyle factors on the risk of metabolic syndrome (MetS). DESIGN Cross-sectional study. BMI, waist circumference, blood pressure, fat and lean mass (by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry), TAG, HDL-cholest...

[Factors associated with low cardiometabolic risk in obese women].

OBJECTIVE To identify factors associated with low cardiometabolic risk (CMR) in obese women (O(b)W) seen at outpatient specialty clinics of SUS (Brazilian Social Security Health System), in the City of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Case-control study, matched by age, of 306 O(b)W (BMI > or = 30 kg/m(2)), including 66 (21. 6%) cases - normotensive, normolipidemic and nondiabeti...

Muscle Carnosine Is Associated with Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Humans

BACKGROUND Carnosine is a naturally present dipeptide abundant in skeletal muscle and an over-the counter food additive. Animal data suggest a role of carnosine supplementation in the prevention and treatment of obesity, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease but only limited human data exists. METHODS AND RESULTS Samples of vastus lateralis muscle were obtained by nee...

P-71: Risk Factors Associated with Womens