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Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2020 Background Adiposity is associated with larger left ventricular mass in children and adults. The role of body fat distribution in these associations is not clear.
Liza Toemen +8 more
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The importance of body composition assessment in the rehabilitation process [PDF]
Balneo and PRM Research Journal, 2021 Introduction. This personal study provides several aspects of the importance of body composition assessment in rehabilitation process in order to manage fat mass (FM), fat-free mas imbalances (FFM), pre-sarcopenia status, sarcopenia and risks association
MURGOCI Nicolae
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Health-related quality of life, adiposity, and sedentary behavior in patients with early schizophrenia: Preliminary study [PDF]
, 2012 Objective: To examine adiposity and sedentary behavior in relation to health-related quality of life (QoL) in patients with early schizophrenia. Methods: A cross-sectional study was used to assess adiposity by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry scans ...
Brar, JS, Ganguli, R, Strassnig, M
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Effect of body composition methodology on heritability estimation of body fatness [PDF]
, 2012 Heritability estimates of human body fatness vary widely and the contribution of body composition methodology to this variability is unknown. The effect of body composition methodology on estimations of genetic and environmental contributions to body ...
Bouchard, Thomas J. +11 more
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Genetics of fat storage in flies and worms: what went wrong? [PDF]
, 2011 Body weight and fat storage are strongly influenced by an individual’s genetic makeup. In humans, genetic polymorphisms have been identified that have effects on body mass index (BMI) and fat content (Meyre et al., 2009; Speliotes et al., 2010; Choquet ...
Al-Anzi, Bader, Zinn, Kai
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National Journal of Physiology, Pharmacy and Pharmacology, 2021 Background: Obesity is a growing health problem worldwide across all age groups and is associated with a number of disease conditions out of which cardiovascular diseases and metabolic syndrome are prominent. Body composition parameters such as body fat percentage (BF%), fat mass (FM), FM index (FMI), fat-free mass (FFM), and FFM index (FFMI) are ...
Pradip Kumar Behera +2 more
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American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2020 BACKGROUND Fat-free mass index (FFMI) and fat mass index (FMI) are superior to BMI and fat percentage in evaluating nutritional status. However, existing references fail to account for racial/ethnic differences in body composition among children ...
R. Shypailo, W. Wong
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Diabetes & Metabolism Journal, 2022 Background The weight-adjusted waist index (WWI) reflected body compositional changes with aging. This study was to investigate the association of WWI with abdominal fat and muscle mass in a diverse race/ethnic population. Methods Computed tomography (CT)
Ji Yon Kim +5 more
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BMC Public Health, 2021 Background We aimed to investigate the association between preterm birth and body composition at 6, 18, and 30 years of age using data from three population-based birth cohort studies.
Caroline Cardozo Bortolotto +7 more
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Body composition in preschool children with short stature: a case-control study
BMC Pediatrics, 2022 Background Short stature is defined as height below 2 standard deviations of the population with the same age, gender. This study is aimed to assess the characteristics of body composition in preschool children with short stature.
Yi-ting Ji +3 more
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