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Showing 1 to 20 of 586 for “"body composition"”.
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Jersey Calf Management, Mortality, and Body Composition
… hip height, wither height, heart girth, and body length were measured weekly. Weekly plasma samples were analyzed for PUN, NEFA, and glucose. Calves were processed to estimate body composition. Feed efficiency and ADG were greatest for calves fed MILK, least for calves fed 21/21, and …
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Body Composition Assessment After Pediatric Liver Transplant
… status beyond anthropometrics. Several body composition assessment technologies are applicable to children, including air displacement plethysmography, dual x-ray absorptiometry and total body potassium, but are not portable or suitable for the clinic setting. A cross-sectional study was …
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Body composition analysis using air displacement plethysmography
… medicine has become a major international focus. Body composition analysis and in particular the estimation of the percentage of body fat is an important tool for disease management. The percentage of body fat has the potential to be a tool health practitioners can use to suggest lifestyle and …
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Impact of infant feeding status on maternal body composition
… exclusivity at 3 months and maternal body composition at 6 months as well as breastfeeding exclusivity at 6 months and maternal body composition at 6 months. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between infant feeding status at three and six months …
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Growth, body composition and costs of feeding Holstein heifers
Growth and body composition of 121 Holstein heifers (4.6 to 18 mo and 129 to 407 kg) reared on pasture, drylot and pasture-drylot systems were evaluated in 6 experiments. Heifers were switched from drylot to pasture or the reverse to study carry-over effects from previous treatments; both systems …
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Assessment of a Body Composition-Focused Approach to Obesity Treatment
… while the focus remains on weight loss, not body composition change. This study examined whether a clinic-based obesity treatment program, focused on body composition change through resistance training, lead to improved body composition, exercise behaviors, and attitude change from focus on …
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Statistical modelling of body composition in children and their parents
Several methods of assessing body composition are presented and discussed in this thesis. The assessment of body composition has been a leading area of research for many years. The increasing prevalence of obesity in recent years has done nothing but stress the importance of having accurate and …
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Dietary protein affects body composition, energy partitioning, and cellular energetics
Item marked as restricted to the 'Administrator' Group (id=1) by William Ingram (wingram2@illinois.edu) on 2012-06-27T21:32:45Z Item is restricted until 2014-06-27T21:32:23Z
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The relationship between body composition and bone in preadolescent children
… study was to assess the associations between body composition (lean vs. fat mass) and bone mineral density (BMD) in children 8-9 years of age. A total of 103 Black and White participants (48 females and 55 males) between the ages of 8-9 years old and of all body composition levels, …
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Learning Clinical Body Composition Metrics from 2D and 3D Optical Imaging
Accurate human body shape representation has many applications within computer graphics including 3D animation, virtual tailoring, ergonomic engineering, and virtual reality reconstruction. For clinical researchers working at the intersection of computer graphics, machine learning, and …
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Body composition in elderly and its features in persons with sarcopenia /
The body composition is changing with age: the lean body mass – first of all the skeletal muscle mass and later the bone mineral content – reduces and the fat mass increases, also the regional re-distribution of fat mass occurs. The combination of low muscle mass and low muscle strength or physical …
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Three-dimensional body scanning : a novel technique for body composition assessment
INTRODUCTION: Accurate body composition assessment is crucial for determining health consequences due to excess body fat (BF). While several techniques exist there are few that are accurate, non-invasive, fast, and comfortable for subjects. The Three Dimensional (3D) body scanner is a new body …
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Body Composition Assessment Results And Predicting Injury Patterns In Collegiate Musicians
<p>Objective: It is known that a higher body mass index (BMI) is associated with increased risk of injury, but it is unknown whether there is an association between increased risk of injury and body composition. Currently the data comes from competitive sports, with little data in performing arts, …
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Genomic and metabolomic interrogation of body composition and insulin resistance endotypes
… severe metabolic derangement and perturbation of body composition. Such rare monogenic disorders reveal causal pathways at the extremes, while population-scale analyses, i.e. genome/exome wide association studies (GWAS/ExWAS), identify common variation shaping risk of more prevalent forms of …
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Measuring Nutritional Status, Hydration and Body Composition Changes in Acute Stroke
… Malnutrition has adverse effects on body composition especially in conditions that escalate the stress response in the body and may be associated with immobility such as stroke. Study objective: The objective of my study was to understand the prognosis of malnutrition on post …
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Performance and Body Composition in Swine as Affected by Environmental Temperature
… either 33 or 26$\sp\circ$C at 23 kg as initial body weight for four weeks. The lysine requirements for daily gain and for feed efficiency were 1.06 and 1.08% for the hot and.93 and 1.12% for the cool conditions respectively. It is concluded that a higher level of lysine is required to enhance …
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Body composition, lung function, blood pressure, and muscular strength: a comparative study
… The loss of balance between components of body composition is significantly linked to a wide range of adverse clinical outcomes. Whilst the sharp rise in the rate of adiposity-based chronic diseases has caused substantial health concerns across the globe, sarcopenia has emerged as an …
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