BACKGROUND Fisherwomen contribute significantly to the coastal economy of Eastern India; however, data about their physical fitness and weight status are scant. OBJECTIVES The present cross-sectional study was designed to investigate cardiorespiratory fitness and weight status of fisherwomen, which may be influenced by their occupational workload, using morphometric and anthropometric measure...

BACKGROUND Leptin and its soluble receptor (sOB-R) are important to regulation of body composition but there are no data on the developmental variations in these plasma variables and their relationship with body composition measurements, METHODS Weight, length, and body composition (bone, fat and lean mass) by dual energy absorptiometry, and plasma variables were measured in healthy infants a...

BACKGROUND Obesity affects lung function and respiratory muscle strength. The aim of the present study was to assess lung function and respiratory muscle strength in children with obesity and determine the influence of body composition on these variables. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted involving 75 children (40 with obesity and 35 within the ideal weight range) aged 6 - 10 year...

Background: Obesity is the biggest challenge in health management and public problem many countriessince it a significant risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. Therefore, to ascertain which anthropometricmeasurements are better predictors of obesity.The main objective evaluate compare anthropometric parameters non-obese, overweight, andobese subjects.Materials methods: This cross-sectional s...

The variability that exists within the populations of individual countries and the variability that exists between the populations of different countries are both of interest in practical application. For these reasons, a comparison is made in this work between certain anthropometric variables of our sample of Croatian population and anthropometric variables that are available for other human p...

data on body weight and body measurements (body length, height at withers, chest girth and paunch girth) of adult kilakarsal sheep have been collected from 124 adult animals managed at the farmers filed in tirunelveli districts of tami nadu, india to estimate the body weight from body measurements. the data were subjected to standard statistical analysis using spss software and linear regressio...

A cross sectional study of 113 Savar tribal women of four villages of Keonjhar District, Orissa, India, was undertaken to examine age changes in anthropometric and body composition characteristics as well as to evaluate their nutritional status. Height, weight, circumferences and skinfolds data collected from subjects aged 41-75 years, along with body mass index and seven body composition varia...

INTRODUCTION The meniscus has an important role in force transmission across the knee, but a detailed three-dimensional (3D) morphometric shape analysis of the lateral meniscus to elucidate subject-specific function has not been conducted. The aim of this study was to perform 3D morphometric analyses of the lateral meniscus in order to correlate shape variables with anthropometric parameters, t...