introduction: the purpose of the present study was to evaluate anthropometric characteristics of weight, sitting & standing height, cormic index and bmi in the adult residents of qazvin, iran. methods: in this cross-sectional study, 300 adult inhabitants aged 18-55 years (180 males and 120 females) of qazvin, iran were evaluated. the participants were selected randomly and without any physical ...

optimization of training results and improvement of response requires selecting appropriate stimulus and are goals of any training program. it seems that ischemic-reperfusion preconditioning (irpc) can be a suitable stimulus to increase submaximal contractile responses. therefore, this study aimed at investigating the effect of ischemic-reperfusion preconditioning and remote preconditioning (ir...

materials and methods in this school-based cross-sectional survey, a pre-tested structured self-administered questionnaire was set for obtaining the socio-demographic data (age at menarche, number of siblings, occupation and educational attainment of their parents, etc.), while the anthropometric status data was obtained by direct measurement of weight and height. the body mass index (bmi) and ...

The objective of this study was to examine the influence of anthropometric measurements of pregnant women, gestational weight gain, fundal height, and maternal factors, namely age, education, family income, parity along with maternal hemoglobin, on birth weight of neonates. A cross sectional study was performed in Khoy City in north west of Iran. Four hundred and fifty healthy pregnant women in...

increasing the intensity of physical activity is associated with reduced risk of cardiovascular diseases and this may be the reason why the blood lipoprotein profiles improve. so the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of six weeks of a high intensity interval training (hiit) on lipid profile of sedentary young men. for this purpose, 18 sedentary young men voluntarily participated i...

Children with mucopolysaccharidosis II (MPS II), also known as Hunter syndrome, an X-linked disorder, suffer from a multisystem dysfunction caused by the accumulation of glycosaminoglycans. However, there has been no systemic report on the growth of patients with MPS II. The purpose of this study is to describe the growth patterns of patients with MPS II and to compare with the patterns of age-...

background: obesity has become a serious problem for chinese han nationality. this research aimed to evaluate the prevalence of and trends in obesity among chinese korean nationality children and adolescents (1991–2010). methods: we used data from chinese national surveys on students’ constitution and health (cnssch). cnssch was utilized to monitor chinese students’ health condition and release...

Hyperphagia is a frequent symptom in patients with Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) and results in marked obesity with the risk of metabolic and cardiovascular complications. Previously, we reported that our special diet for PWS patients is effective in the long run, if started early at about 2 years of age. Our objective in this study was to investigate if our special diet is also effective in PWS ...