BACKGROUND Low fat-free mass may be an independent risk factor for malnutrition that results in an increased length of hospital stay (LOS). OBJECTIVES The objectives were to compare differences in fat-free mass and fat mass at hospital admission between patients and healthy control subjects and to determine the association between these differences and the LOS. DESIGN Patients (525 men, 470...

AIM Existing studies suggest that weight and body composition of parents influence the size and body composition of their offspring, but are often inconclusive and conducted by means of inappropriate body composition methodology. Our aim was to study infant size and body composition variables in relation to body composition variables of their mothers and fathers in a well-nourished population u...

OBJECTIVE Homocysteine is a sex-related risk factor for cardiovascular disease but the reason for dimorphism is unclear. It has been hypothesized that fat-free mass is an independent determinant of the circulating homocysteine and methionine concentrations. METHODS The relationship of homocysteine to body composition was investigated in 52 healthy middle-aged 40-60 year olds. Plasma total hom...

BACKGROUND Advances in dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) software algorithms have improved the accuracy of this method for body-composition measurement. OBJECTIVE Our objective was to compare the utility of DXA, underwater weighing (UWW), and a multicomponent model (MC) for assessing changes in body composition. DESIGN : Previously sedentary women aged 40-66 y were randomly assigned to...

background: menopause is associated with changes in body composition in postmenopausal women. the aim of this study was to compare the effects of tibolone and continuous combined hormone therapy (ht) on body composition in postmenopausal women. materials and methods: in this randomized clinical trial, 120 menopausal women were randomly selected and divided into three groups. of these, 40 women ...

BACKGROUND Although obesity is widely accepted as a risk factor for knee osteoarthritis, whether weight per se or the specific components of body composition are the major determinants of properties of articular knee cartilage is unclear. OBJECTIVE To examine associations between anthropometric and body composition measures and knee cartilage properties in healthy adults. METHODS 297 health...

this study examined the possible effects of lycopene at physiological dosage and body fat mass on the humoral immune response in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (t2dm). a total of 35 patients with typ2 diabetes mellitus from both sexes aged 54±9 yrs from the iranian diabetes society were introduced into a double blind placebo controlled clinical trial conducted for 2 months. after a 2-we...