PROTEIN CATABOLIC RATE SHOULD BE NORMALIZED BY IDEAL BODY WEIGHT NOT BY POST-DIALYSIS BODY WEIGHT.
Kidney Research and Clinical Practice, 2012 Protein catabolic rate (PCR) is calculated by urea kinetic model thorough the dialysis session and it is recognized as expressing the protein intake in the steady state of dialysis patients.
Ikuto Masakane +4 more
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Pregnancy weight gain and childhood body weight: a within-family comparison. [PDF]
PLoS Medicine, 2013 BackgroundExcessive pregnancy weight gain is associated with obesity in the offspring, but this relationship may be confounded by genetic and other shared influences. We aimed to examine the association of pregnancy weight gain with body mass index (BMI)
David S Ludwig +2 more
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Constructions of health, weight and bodily appearance among Indo-Fijian women across three generations : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Psychology at Massey University [PDF]
, 2014 Discursive constructions of a 'thin ideal' body shape today have often associated the slender body to the idea of a 'healthy weight' and physical beauty.
Nath, Namrata
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Behavior and weight correlates of weight-control efforts in Australian women living in disadvantage : the READI study [PDF]
, 2013 BackgroundWith increasing obesity rates worldwide, more and more people are actively attempting to lose weight or avoid weight gain, but relatively little is known about what specific behaviors comprise these efforts and which, if any, are associated ...
Abbott, Gavin +3 more
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Correlation between body measurements of gazella marica fawns after weaning and estimating body weight from these measurements [PDF]
Kafkas Universitesi Veteriner Fakültesi DergisiThis study aims to find out for the first time the change in body measurements of gazelle fawns from birth to weaning and the estimation of live weight based on body measurements (BW, BL, CC, CD, AC, SH) of a total of 42 fawns, 17 female and 25 male ...
Adil UZTEMUR, Abdülkadir ORMAN
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The dynamics of human body weight change [PDF]
, 2008 An imbalance between energy intake and energy expenditure will lead to a change in body weight (mass) and body composition (fat and lean masses). A quantitative understanding of the processes involved, which currently remains lacking, will be useful in determining the etiology and treatment of obesity and other conditions resulting from prolonged ...
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Psychosocial and Biological Factors Contributing to Body Weight Gain in Schizophrenia [PDF]
, 2011 Overweight and obesity are frequently reported to be a significant issue in schizophrenia resulting in the inherent complications of these disorders.
Pai, NB, Vella, SC
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Adult weight measurement: decoding the terminology used in literature
The South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2019 There are various types of names given to describe the adult weight measurement. The most commonly used terms (actual body weight, estimated body weight, ideal body weight and adjusted body weight) have been defined and summarized to assist in their ...
Christen Renée Lahner
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The effects of weight reduction to ideal body weight on body fat distribution
Metabolism, 1995 Obesity is a well-known health risk factor. Several studies have demonstrated that upper-body fat distribution plays a major role in the association between increased adiposity and metabolic disorders. The present study was undertaken to evaluate changes in intraabdominal and subcutaneous fat areas in obese subjects undergoing a weight reduction to ...
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Advantages of adopting the operational definition of weight [PDF]
arXiv, 2005 With rare exceptions, in high school and college/university physics courses literature and in journals of physics, the weight is defined as a gravitational force or an exclusive consequence of it. These definitions lack logic from the perspective of present knowledge and can be misleading. The operational definition of weight of a body as the force the
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