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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"total body fat"”.
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Physical Activity and Changes in Abdominal Fat Over 18 Months: A Prospective Study of Middle-Aged Women
… physical activity predict changes in abdominal fat in women over an 18-month period, while statistically controlling the effects of possible confounders, such as age, total body fat percent, and energy intake. Design: A prospective cohort design over 18 months. There was no intervention or …
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The effect of dietary caloric restriction during pregnancy on maternal and fetal body composition in the obese Sprague Dawley rat
… taken by Caesearean section. Maternal and fetal body composition, maternal serum protein concentrations were examined. Weight change for pregnant rats was +85 gms in the ad lib-fed group, +82 gms in the 15% calorie restricted group, and +56 gms in the 30% calorie restricted group. Weight changes …
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Differences in Bone Mineral Density Among Adolescent Female Tennis Players and Non-Tennis Players
… (NTP); 2) to determine the differences in body composition (BC) between adolescent female TP and NTP; 3) to determine whether BC variables (weight, fat mass, and lean mass) were predictive of differences in BMD; and 4) to assess osteoporosis knowledge among female high school adolescents. …
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Determinants of smoke induced lung damage and relationship with metabolic syndrome
… by pulmonary function testing, skin prick tests, body composition, fasting glucose, CRP, and lipids analysis to diagnose MeS. This showed a gradual increase in prevalence of MeS, but with only difference between non-smokers on one hand and smokers with or without COPD on the other being …
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Investigating Metabolically Healthy Obesity In US Minority Populations: The IRAS Family Study
… (CVD). This has led to characterizing different body size phenotypes based on cardiometabolic risk factors. Thus, individuals can be classified as being metabolically healthy obese (MHO) versus metabolically abnormal obese (MAO). Although there have been several studies that have tried to …
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The Effects of Weight Gain and Atorvastatin Treatment on Arterial Stiffness
… addition, we demonstrated that, independent of total body fat, those individuals with relatively larger increases in abdominal visceral fat also experienced correspondingly larger increases in arterial stiffness. Regarding our second hypothesis, atorvastatin treatment decreased arterial …
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The effect of severe dietary caloric restriction during pregnancy on maternal and fetal body composition in the obese Sprague Dawley rat
… taken by Caesarean section. Maternal and fetal body composition, and the maternal serum protein concentration were examined. Weight changes for pregnant rats were +127 gms in the ad lib fed group, +83 gms in the 30% restricted group, and +51 gms in the 50% restricted group. Weight changes for …
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La glycémie maternelle en grossesse et la leptine dans le sang de cordon : des déterminants de l’adiposité dans l’enfance
… secreted by adipose tissue and related to fat mass – have been reported to be associated with childhood adiposity. As the programming of adiposity can be influenced by the trimester of exposure to hyperglycaemia, we measured glucose levels of pregnant women from the Gen3G cohort in the 1st …
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Early High Sugar Intake in Infants and Later Sugar Intake, BMI, and Body Fat Percentage at 2 and 3 Years of Age
… introduction of solid foods on infant growth and body composition. A total of 175 were recruited before 3 months of age, and only infants who were being formula fed were eligible. weight, length, and body composition by DXA were measured at 3, 6, 12, 24, and 36 months of age; three-day diet …
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The Impact of a Controlled 10-Week Pistachio Feeding Crossover Trial on Blood Lipids and Measures of Adiposity
… ± 0.51 years) served as their own controls. Mean body mass index (BMI) was 21.9 ± 2.32 kg/m<sup>2</sup> and mean total cholesterol (TC) was 155.0 ± 27.7 mg/dL. Pistachio diet participants consumed 20% of their daily energy needs of pistachios each day, whereas control diet participants maintained …
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Soft Drink Consumption and Changes in Body Composition in 170 Women: A 4-Year Prospective Study
… of the behaviors contributing to weight and fat gain is vital.</p> <p><strong>Objective:</strong> To examine the extent to which soft drink consumption is predictive of changes in body composition in middle-aged women over a 4-year period, while statistically controlling for age, energy …
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nTOBEC - eine neue Methode zur Erfassung der Körperzusammensetzung
Als Resultat überhöhter Energieaufnahme und zu geringen Energieverbrauchs beobachten wir eine über das normale Maß hinausgehende Akkumulation von Fettgewebe, die sich als Adipositas manifestiert. Sie gilt als einer der Hauptrisikofaktoren für Krankheiten des metabolischen Syndroms. Im Rahmen von …
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The Impact of Dietary Protein Supplementation as Part of a Time Restricted Feeding Eating Pattern on Sleep, Mood, and Body Composition in Adults with Overweight or Obesity
… Quality Index Global Sleeping Score; PSQI GSS), total mood disturbances (TMD; via Profile of Mood States (POMS) including six affect states of depression, fatigue, anger, tension, confusion, and vigor subscales), appetite (using visual analog scales), and weighed 3-day dietary intake records were …
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Metabolism and Body Composition in Chronic Inflammatory Arthritis: Prevention and Intervention through Pharmaceutical and Physical Means
… resting energy expenditure (REE) and loss of fat-free mass (FFM) leading to functional disability, decreased strength and balance. The aims of this research work was to: a) to develop a new REE equation in order to continuously monitor abnormal changes in REE in the RA population, b) to …
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The Efficacy of a Maintenance-Oriented Weight Management Program in an Obese Population
… program in producing changes in weight, body composition, fitness, blood lipids, physical activity, and strength following completion of the treatment program and at 3-month follow-up. Fifty overweight and obese men (n = 18) and women (n = 32), ages 27-55 (M = 40.52) who had low …
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A longitudinal study of fat mass accrual from adolescence through to emerging adulthood and its impact on cardiometabolic risk later in life
… and that there is a period in adulthood when fat mass (FM) increases. Emerging adulthood (EA; 18-25 years) has been identified as a potential critical period when FM accrues, the degree to which is potentially influenced by childhood and adolescence FM accrual. EA is also a period which favors …
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The effects of interventions on fundamental movement skills, physical activity and psychological well-being among children
… with children's physical activity, fitness and body fatness, and c) determine the effectiveness of non-curricular interventions to increase fundamental movement skills and enhance perceptions of competence. The first stage of research presented is the cross-sectional study of 152 children (41% …
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Causal Gene Prioritization Across Diverse Diseases Through Multi-Omic Data Integration
… to test the role of rare coding variants using fat distribution and its effect on cardiometabolic risk as a use case, (ii) integration of proteogenomic with phenome-wide data to systematically prioritise candidate causal genes across diverse human diseases and (iii) testing the importance of sex …
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Role of adipose tissue as an endocrineorgan in systemic inflammation
… as a result of adipocytokine production from fat tissue leading to dysregulation in the pro/anti‐inflammatory systemic balance. Adipokines and pro‐inflammatory markers are implicated in insulin insensitivity, blood glucose dysregulation, inflammation and atherosclerosis. There is a …
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Interventions in patients at high cardiovascular risk
… method, p=0.24) or cardiovascular risk factors (total cholesterol, p=0.96; HDL cholesterol, p=0.93; LDL cholesterol, p=0.97; triglycerides, p=0.74; body mass index, p=0.97; systolic blood pressure, p=0.35 and diastolic blood pressure, p=0.38). This implies that either a combination of soy protein …
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