UNLABELLED Body weight management is not emphasized in clinical practice guidelines for breast cancer survivors, reflecting the lack of evidence that weight loss improves prognosis. Even if this situation changes, the optimal design for weight loss interventions is unclear. We conducted a 6-month non-randomized, controlled weight loss intervention in 249 post-menopausal breast cancer survivors....

INTRODUCTION Localized limb edema is a clinically relevant sign in diseases such as post-thrombotic syndrome and lymphedema. Quantitative evaluation of localized edema in children is mainly done by measuring the absolute difference in limb circumference, which includes fat and fat-free mass. Bioimpedance spectroscopy (BIS) provides information on the fluid volume of a body segment. Our objectiv...

BACKGROUND Smoking cessation is associated with weight gain, but the effects of smoking cessation on measures of body composition (BC) have not been adequately evaluated. The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of 16 months of cigarette abstinence on areas of BC measured by dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA). METHODS One hundred fifty-two postmenopausal women participated in a...

objective: nowadays the value of bioelectrical impedance analysis (bia) in the estimation of body adiposity both on a clinical basis in the individual and epidemiologically in large populations is of great interest. the current study determine accuracy of bia compared with body mass index (bmi) measurement for estimating body composition in a group of normal weight employee women with a sedenta...

We measured total and regional bone mineral density (BMD) and soft tissue mass in 115 healthy Japanese women without vertebral fractures. The subjects, aged 20 to 75 years, were divided into four age groups: 20's to 40's group (n=33), 50's group (n=26), 60's group (n=26), and 70's group (n=30). BMD was measured by dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA). The evaluated regions were the head, arms...

Considering the growing global problem and lack of obesity data in Bosnia Herzegovina (BH) main aim this paper was to determine BH school-age children body composition differences between girls boys classified underweight, normal weight overweight according mass index (BMI) score. 2524 participants 1763 761 (aged 10-13 yrs.) from 32 elementary schools were randomly selected divided 3 BMI groups...

Objective: Nowadays the value of bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) in the estimation of body adiposity both on a clinical basis in the individual and epidemiologically in large populations is of great interest. The current study determine accuracy of BIA compared with body mass index (BMI) measurement for estimating body composition in a group of normal weight employee women with a sedenta...

Tracking changes in body composition may provide key information about the effectiveness of training programs for athletes. This study reports on agreement between bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) and dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) tracking during a seven-week offseason program 29 NCAA collegiate American football players. Body subjects (mean ± SD; age: 19.7 1.5 y; height: 179.8 6...