OBJECTIVE To determine how childhood overweight, in conjunction with other life course weight characteristics, relates to the development of type 2 diabetes in adulthood. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Among 109,172 women in the Nurses' Health Study II, body fatness at ages 5, 10, and 20 years was assessed by recall using 9-level pictorial diagrams (somatotypes) representing extreme thinness (ca...

The development of a simple test for the estimation of the dynamic fitness of adolescents has been described.1' 2 In this report our experience with this test both in assessing individual fitness and also the efficiency of a "body building" program is discussed. At the beginning of the fall term of a school year a group of 609 boys, ranging in age from 13 to 19 years, were given a step test; af...

Garment size system is an important factor for both the adult population and the population of children and adolescents when choosing a suitable and fitting clothing. To develop the size system anthropometric measurements of selected population should be carried out. For this purpose a sample of girls aged 6 to 12 years in Croatia were measured (4002 respondents distributed proportionately to t...

Inquiry into somatotype often seeks to assign participants groups. The aim of this study was demonstrate how the intra-tester reliability anthropometric measures can influence is categorized. Sixty-eight physically active males (mean [SD] 24.8 [7.9] y; 79.8 [14.4] kg; 1.81 [0.07] m) had their profiles measured and components calculated. Technical error measurement (TEM) used calculate 95% confi...

The present research corresponds to a cross-sectional descriptive study in the anthropometric field, which allows coaches develop standards identify talent and optimize training discipline of beach volleyball. Its objective was define profile body composition Mexican Olympic volleyball teams both sexes. participants were couples one two Mexico sexes (defined by FIVB ranking), 4 women men with a...