Prehistoric people sometimes died at an old age to judge by the longevity of life estimated from skeletal data. Anthropology, however, suggests that is a much more complex concept than that. The process growing stressed in anthropological theory may advantageously be discussed on basis prehistoric burial-ground Examples Swedish burial-grounds hint cultural variation way which societies viewed a...

OBJECTIVE Although advanced age is a risk factor for type 2 diabetes, a clear understanding of the changes that occur during middle age that contribute to the development of skeletal muscle insulin resistance is currently lacking. Therefore, we sought to investigate how middle age impacts skeletal muscle fatty acid handling and to determine how this contributes to the development of diet-induce...

background: the aim was to investigate the relationships among lean mass (lm), fat mass (fm), and bone mineral density (bmd) in women stratified by body mass index (bmi) (bmi – normal-weight, overweight, obese) and to determine threshold at which body fat assumes negative relationship with bmd. methods: this was a cross-sectional study in 471 healthy caucasian women, aged 18-67 years. bmd, lm, ...

The goal of the present study was to discern the cellular mechanism(s) that contributes to the age-associated decrease in skeletal muscle aerobic capacity. Skeletal muscle mitochondrial content, a parameter of oxidative capacity, was significantly lower (25 and 20% calculated on the basis of citrate synthase and succinate dehydrogenase activities, respectively) in 24-mo-old Fischer 344 rats com...

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM The prevalence of overweight and obesity has been increasing markedly in recent years. It may influence growth in pre pubertal children. PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine whether increased Body Mass Index (BMI) is associated with accelerated skeletal maturation and dental maturation in six to fifteen years old orthodontic patients in Shiraz, Iran. M...

We thank Dr. Ortega for the opportunity to debate the concept that aging affects exercise efficiency. From the outset we must acknowledge that, indeed, some studies report an age-related reduction task efficiency during walking and other rather complex tasks (2, 12, 20, 21). However, in contrast, our recent study of leg cycling in centenarians (28), as well as other work focused more specifical...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the differences between skeletal and chronological age and to assess the role of maturity status, anthropometric data, and football related variables in explaining injury statistics in elite schoolboy footballers. DESIGN Prospective study of injuries in schoolboy footballers according to skeletal age. SETTING Premier league football club in England. PARTICIPANTS 2...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to assess the relationship of chronological age with cervical vertebrae skeletal maturation, frontal sinus width and antegonial notch depth and a correlation, if any, among the three variables. MATERIALS AND METHODS The samples were derived from lateral cephalometric radiographs of 80 subjects (40 males, 40 females; age range: 10 to 19 years). Cervical v...