BACKGROUND Body fat distribution has been cross-sectionally associated with atherosclerotic disease risk factors, but the prospective relation with coronary heart disease remains uncertain. METHODS AND RESULTS We examined the prospective relation between fat distribution indices and coronary heart disease among 24,508 men and women 45 to 79 years of age using proportional hazards regression. ...

Obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) is a commonly-diagnosed chronic sleep disorder. It is considered to be an important independent risk factor in the development of insulin resistance (IR). Patients with OSAHS exhibit a variety of metabolic disorders, including obesity and metabolic syndrome. Visceral adipose tissue-derived serpin (vaspin) is an adipokine that is considered to be...

BACKGROUND Body mass, as well as distribution of body fat, are predictors of both diabetes and cardiovascular disease. In Northern Sweden, despite a marked increase in average body mass, prevalence of diabetes was stagnant and myocardial infarctions decreased. A more favourable distribution of body fat is a possible contributing factor. This study investigates the relative importance of individ...

The identification of livestock breed is a necessity for its long-term maintenance and utilisation. Principal component analysis morphometric traits has proved successful reduction in the number features needed morphological evaluation species, which keeps costs down saves time efforts. Eighteen body biometric traits, viz. Height at withers, Leg length, Neck circumference, Body Chest girth, Abd...

background: designing an intervention to increase physical activity is important to be based on the health care settings resources and be acceptable by the subject group. this study was designed to assess and compare the eff ect of the goal setting strategy with a group education method on increasing the physical activity of mothers of children aged 1 to 5. materials and methods: mothers who ha...

OBJECTIVE To develop and cross-validate predictive models for percentage body fat (%BF) from anthropometric measurements [including BMI z-score (zBMI) and calf circumference (CC)] excluding skinfold thickness. METHODS A descriptive study was carried out in 3,084 pre-pubertal children. Regression models and neural network were developed with %BF measured by Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis (BI...

INTRODUCTION  Patients with obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) often have associated changes in craniofacial morphology and distribution of body fat, either alone or in combination. AIM  To correlate cephalometric and anthropometric measures with OSAHS severity by using the apnea-hypopnea index (AHI). METHOD  A retrospective cephalometry study of 93 patients with OSAHS was co...

Abstract Background Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia with major public health impact. Obesity and hypertension are among important risk factors to AF development. The link between its pathogenetic complex comprehensive assessment of impact various long-term trajectories anthropometric measures blood pressure on incident men women sparse. Purpose To investigate sex-...

Nutritional status of 50 newborns born to HIV infected mothers in a tertiary care hospital was compared with that of babies born to HIV seronegative mothers, as assessed by birthweight, mid arm circumference to head circumference ratio (MAC/HC), ponderal index (PI), and clinical assessment of nutritional status (CAN) score. The incidence of malnutrition in babies born to HIV infected mothers wa...

background: the superiority of either of body mass index (bmi), waist circumference (wc), waist-to-hip ratio (whr) and waist-to-height ratio (whtr) for prediction of metabolic syndrome (mets) is remained controversial in asian population. the objective of this study was to compare the discriminative capacity of either of these measures in prediction of non-adipose components of mets. methods: i...