OBJECTIVE To compare body composition, hemodynamic parameters, health-related physical fitness, and health-related quality of life of adolescents with anthropometric diagnosis of overweight, obesity, and severe obesity. METHODS 220 adolescents with excess body weight were enrolled. They were beginners in a intervention program that included patients based on age, availability, presence of exc...

abstract the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between some anthropometric parameters and physiological tests (physical fitness) in amateur soccer players. the present study was descriptive-comparative carried out as a field study. the statistical population consisted of male adolescent soccer players (9-13 years old) who volunteered to participate in leisure time programs o...

in a corss sectional survey, anthropometric indices of 205 women in hassanabad khaleseh, rural area of eslamshahr on the basis of weight (wt), height (ht), body mass index (bmi), midarm circumference (mac) and waist to hip ratio (w/h) has been investigated. the dependence of these indices to some independent variables were determined. the findings of this study indicated that the mean of wt, ht...

a variety of anthropometric and training characteristics have been identified as predictor variables for race performance in endurance and ultra-endurance athletes. anthropometric characteristics such as skin-fold thicknesses, body fat, circumferences and length of limbs, body mass, body height, and body mass index were bi-variately related to race performance in endurance athletes such as swim...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of the present study was to compare the nutrition status of patients with Huntington's disease (HD) with that of control subjects by analyzing anthropometric and biochemical indicators, energy, and macronutrient intake and to determine which indicators are most altered in HD patients. METHODS We assessed the nutrition status of 25 HD patients and 25 age- and sex-matched ...

A cross-sectional study was undertaken to investigate sex differences in anthropometric characteristics, including central body fat distribution, among 11–14-year-old urban Bengalees of West Bengal, India. The sample consisted of 559 (314 boys and 245 girls) randomly selected students from two schools of North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India. Height, weight, six circumference and ten skinfold m...

Lean body mass (LBM) and muscle mass remain difficult to quantify in large epidemiological studies due to the unavailability of inexpensive methods. We therefore developed anthropometric prediction equations to estimate the LBM and appendicular lean soft tissue (ALST) using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) as a reference method. Healthy volunteers (n = 2,220; 36% women; age 18-79 yr), rep...

BACKGROUND Excessive weight is a cardiovascular risk factor since it generates a chronic inflammatory process that aggravates the endothelial function. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the endothelial function in individuals with excess weight and mild dyslipidemia using brachial artery flow-mediated dilation (BAFMD), and the association of endothelial function with anthropometric and biochemical variab...

Pregnancy leads to several changes in body composition and morphology of women. It is not clear whether the biomechanical changes occurring in this period are due exclusively to body composition and size or to other physiological factors. The purpose was to quantify the morphology and body composition of women throughout pregnancy and in the postpartum period and identify the contribution of th...

Background: Body mass index (BMI) is the dominating weightfor-height index, but its validity as a body fat (BF) index has not been properly examined. Objectives: Our aims were to establish and validate optimal weightfor-height indexes for predicting absolute and relative (percentage) amounts of BF, to examine whether other commonly available anthropometric variables or age could add to the pred...