BACKGROUND Greater adiposity is associated with higher blood pressure. Substantial uncertainty remains, however, about which measures of adiposity most strongly predict blood pressure and whether these associations differ materially between populations. METHODS We examined cross-sectional data on 500 000 adults recruited from 10 diverse localities across China during 2004-08. Multiple linear ...

BACKGROUND Childhood obesity creates a predisposition to develop adult hypertension and diabetes. We have identified distinct childhood adiposity trajectories associated with increased insulin resistance in early adolescence. Our aim was to investigate the relationship between these adiposity trajectories with childhood blood pressure (BP) development. METHODS Adiposity trajectories were prev...

BACKGROUND Since the 1930s, the environment has become increasingly obesogenic, leading to rising rates of adiposity and socioeconomic inequalities in adiposity. Building on studies comparing body mass index (BMI) for cohorts born over a period of 20 years, we examine the social patterning of BMI and central adiposity for three cohorts born over a 40-year period. METHODS Using data from the W...

BACKGROUND Atherosclerosis develops from childhood, but the determinants of this preclinical stage remain uncertain. We examined the relations of classic coronary risk factors, adiposity and its associated metabolic disturbances, to arterial distensibility (a marker of early arterial disease) in 13- to 15-year-olds, some of whom had previously been studied at ages 9 to 11 years. METHODS AND R...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether adiposity is associated with an impaired quality of life (an individual's perception of their life) in general population samples in early adolescence. DESIGN AND METHODS Relationships between a direct measure of adiposity (fat mass index from bioimpedance) and a proxy measure (waist circumference), and a generic (KIDSCREEN-27) and a weight-specific measure of hea...

BACKGROUND Large for gestational age infants have an increased risk of obesity, cardiovascular and metabolic complications during life. Knowledge of the key predictive factors of neonatal adiposity is required to devise targeted antenatal interventions. Our objective was to determine the fetal metabolic factors that influence regional neonatal adiposity in a cohort of women with previous large ...

In children, blood pressure (BP) and risk for hypertension are proportional to degree of adiposity. Whether the relationship to BP is similar over the full range of adiposity is less clear. Subjects from a cohort study (n 1111; 50% male and 42% black) contributed 9102 semiannual BP and height/weight assessments. The mean enrollment age was 10.2 years, and mean follow-up was 4.5 years. Adiposity...

The aim was to evaluate the effects of ozone therapy in treatment adiposity. An integrative review carried out during month October 2020, SciELO, LILACS, PubMed and Academic Google databases, with descriptors: oxygen-ozone therapy, adiposity corresponding ones Portuguese Spanish. Inclusion criteria: articles available full, Portuguese, English Spanish containing at least two descriptors title o...

Purpose To examine the associations between muscular fitness (MF) and body composition.Method MF was assessed with three tests of FitnessGram test battery. Total fat percentage (BF%), abdominal (AF%) fat-free mass (FFM) were measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA). The IOTF index (BMI) cut-offs used to define healthy weight, overweight, obesity.Results inversely associated BF% AF%. c...