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Anthropometric Measures and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: Is there an Opportunity for Non-Traditional Anthropometric Assessment? A Review

Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2022
Background: Several anthropometric measurements are used to assess cardiovascular risk and progress during clinical treatment. Most commonly used anthropometric measurements include total body weight and body mass index (BMI), with several other simple ...
Aurora Carrión-Martínez, Benjamin J R Buckley, Esteban Orenes-Piñero, Francisco Marín, Gregory Y. H Lip, José Miguel Rivera-Caravaca   +5 more
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Relationships between body weight and body measurements of reindeer

Rangifer, 1986
Genus Rangifer populates the northernmost habitat of the Cervidae and shows alterations in body weight, skeletal growth rate and nutritional state with the marked seasonal changes in its environmental conditions. Body weight and measurements have long been the standard criteria for evaluation of growth in domestic animals.
Nieminen, Mauri, Leppäluoto, Juhani
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The influence of feeding behaviour on growth performance, carcass and meat characteristics of growing pigs [PDF]

, 2018
This study investigated the effect of the feeding behaviour on growth performance, and car- cass and meat characteristics of 96 barrows fed ad libitum or restrictively with high or low amino acids (AA) diets according to a 2 7 2 factorial design.
Bona, Mirco Dalla, Carc\uf2, Giuseppe, Fondevila, Manuel, Gallo, Luigi, Latorre, Maria Angeles, Schiavon, Stefano   +5 more
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Dose-dependent effects of a soluble dietary fibre (pectin) on food intake, adiposity, gut hypertrophy and gut satiety hormone secretion in rats [PDF]

, 2015
Acknowledgments We thank Donna Wallace and Animal House staff at the Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health for the daily care of experimental rats and for the body weight, food intake and MRI measurements.Peer reviewedPublisher ...
Adam, Clare L, Garden, Karen E, Ross, Alexander W, Thomson, Lynn M, Williams, Patricia A   +4 more
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Evaluating the Effects of Acarbose on Anthropometry Indexes and Metabolic Markers in Patients with Metabolic Syndrome in Comparison to Placebo, in Isfahan City, Iran

مجله دانشکده پزشکی اصفهان, 2018
Background: Metabolic syndrome (MTS) is a group of metabolic abnormalities that occur simultaneously. Acarbose is an anti-diabetes medication that studies showed its effects on improving lipid profile, blood sugar, insulin resistance, and weight loss ...
Noushin Khalili, Ali Sheikh-Aboomasoudi
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The Relation between Blood Pressure and Anthropometric Indices among Iranian Adults

مجله دانشکده پزشکی اصفهان, 2019
Background: One of the most important factors in hypertension is overweight and obesity, which there are several methods in order to measure them. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the relation between hypertension and anthropometric indexes among ...
Mehrbod Vakhshoori, Maryam Eghbali-Babadi, Shamim Shafieyoon, Awat Feizi, Maryam Heidarpour, Davood Shafie, Alireza Khosravi, Nizal Sarrafzadegan   +7 more
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Body Measurements and Body Weights of Special-Fed Holstein Veal Calves

Journal of Dairy Science, 1997
Changes in various body dimensions of special fed veal calves were measured and correlated with body weight (BW) at three specific times during the growth period as contemporaries and over the entire feeding period as noncontemporaries. The calves (n = 826) were weighed and measured for body length, heart girth, wither height, and hip width at 2, 8 ...
L L, Wilson, C L, Egan, T L, Terosky
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Laser-Based 3D Body Scanning Reveals a Higher Prevalence of Abdominal Obesity than Tape Measurements: Results from a Population-Based Sample

Diagnostics, 2023
Background: The global obesity epidemic is a major public health concern, and accurate diagnosis is essential for identifying at-risk individuals. Three-dimensional (3D) body scanning technology offers several advantages over the standard practice of ...
Robert P. Kosilek, Till Ittermann, Dörte Radke, Sabine Schipf, Matthias Nauck, Nele Friedrich, Henry Völzke   +6 more
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Outcomes of a specialist weight management programme in the UK national health service: prospective study of 1838 patients [PDF]

, 2014
Objectives There is limited evidence on the effectiveness of weight management programmes provided within routine healthcare and inconsistent use of outcome measures. Our aim was to evaluate a large National Health Service (NHS) weight management service
Allardice, G., Forde, L., Gillies, M., Logue, J., Morrison, D.S.   +4 more
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Getting to know the types of JPEG and RAW photo files used in research [PDF]

Revista Brasileira de Cirurgia Plástica, 2018
INTRODUCTION: Indirect anthropometric measurements are important in research but may also be significant in the legal area as a quantitative instrument for pre- and post-operative evaluation.
Paulo Rogério Quieregatto do Espirito Santo, Miguel Sabino Neto, Fabiane Furtado, Thales Waltenior Trigo Junior, Andrea do Amaral Quieregatto do Espirito Santo, Fábio Luis Nonato, Rafael Alves Tumeh, Lydia Masako Ferreira   +7 more
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