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ESTATURA Y PESO CORPORAL. ¿QUÉ INFLUYE MÁS SOBRE LAS CIFRAS DE TENSIÓN ARTERIAL? / Body height and weight. Which one has more influence on blood pressure figures? [PDF]
CorSalud, 2009 Introduction and Objectives: There are many risk factors for the development of high figures of blood pressure and there is no doubt that obesity, and overweight, its precursor, is among of themost studied ones.
Guillermo Alberto Pérez Fernández
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PLoS ONE, 2016 Handgrip strength is an important biomarker of healthy ageing and a powerful predictor of future morbidity and mortality both in younger and older populations. Therefore, the measurement of handgrip strength is increasingly used as a simple but efficient
Nadia Steiber
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Acta Gymnica, 2016 Background: Physical parameters represent an important part of the structure of sports performance and significantly contribute to the overall performance of an ice hockey player.
Martin Sigmund +2 more
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Adult Body Height and Cardiometabolic Disease Risk: The China National Health Survey in Shaanxi. [PDF]
Front Endocrinol (Lausanne), 2020 ObjectivesBased on data from the China National Health Survey, we aimed to examine the association between body height and cardiometabolic disease (CMD) in a large adult population from Shaanxi province, and further to test whether this association was ...
Yuan Y +7 more
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Association of Dental Caries and Anthropometric Measures among Primary School Children
Children, 2021 Aim: This study aimed to investigate an association between dental caries status and anthropometric measures in primary school children. Methods and Materials: An analytical cross-sectional study (n = 376) was conducted among primary school children (age
Wajiha Anzar +8 more
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Snakes partition their body to traverse large steps stably [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Biology (2019), 222, jeb185991, 2019 Many snakes live in deserts, forests, and river valleys and traverse challenging 3-D terrain like rocks, felled trees, and rubble, with obstacles as large as themselves and variable surface properties. By contrast, apart from branch cantilevering, burrowing, swimming, and gliding, laboratory studies of snake locomotion focused on that on simple flat ...
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Body height as a social signal
Papers on Anthropology, 2019 Body height has a signaling function among social mammals. Humans also perceive physical size as a signal and tend to associate stature and status. Taller men are perceived as more competent and authoritative.
M. Hermanussen, C. Scheffler
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Science of Gymnastics Journal, 2023 In order to achieve success in sports, certain physical fitness characteristics are necessary. This study aims to determine whether a relationship exists between the height of male gymnasts who have won medals in the World Championships and Olympic ...
Emre Bagci
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Int.J.Theor.Phys.29:215-223,1990, 2003 A classical representation of an extended body over barriers of height greater than the energy of the incident body is shown to have many features in common with quantum tunneling as the center-of-mass literally goes through the barrier. It is even classically possible to penetrate any finite barrier with a body of arbitrarily low energy if the body is
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European spine journal, 2017 PurposeTo investigate whether wide variations are seen in the measurement techniques preferred by spine surgeons around the world to assess traumatic fracture kyphosis and vertebral body height loss (VBHL).MethodsAn online survey was conducted at two ...
S. Sadiqi +9 more
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