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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Body composition--Measurement"”.
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Body composition measurement in African and Caribbean children and its relationship with morbidity
… referral requires improved tools for assessing body fatness, and other body composition measures related to metabolic disease are needed. Presently the body mass index (BMI) used to identify overweight and obesity suffers from poor sensitivity and specificity, leading to misclassification of …
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Head above water weighing: A valid method to measure body fat storage?
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Assessing Body Composition Among Male Collegiate Runners and Swimmers Using Dual-Energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DXA)
This observational study investigated whole body and regional differences in bone mineral density and soft tissue amounts (fat mass versus lean mass) among collegiate runners and swimmers using dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) for body composition measurement. A data subset was gathered for …
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Identifying risk factors for metabolic syndrome in Division I FCS football players
<p>"Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a collection of symptoms or markers leading to a higher risk for health problems including diabetes and cardiovascular disease. These markers include high blood pressure (BP), increased waist circumference (WC), high triglycerides, low HDL-C and increase glucose. …
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Childhood obesity : a case study of physical activity patterns of obese 6-10 year olds
… above the 99th percentile for weight and had a body fat percentage exceeding 45%. Lipid profiles of the participants revealed that three of the four had high total cholesterol, indicating an increased risk for cardiovascular disease. All of the participants were close to or exceeded the waist to …