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Changes in ponderal index and body mass index across childhood and their associations with fat mass and cardiovascular risk factors at age 15 [PDF]

, 2010
Background: Little is known about whether associations between childhood adiposity and later adverse cardiovascular health outcomes are driven by tracking of overweight from childhood to adulthood and/or by vascular and metabolic changes from childhood ...
A Fraser, A Must, AC Skinner, Adrian V. Hernandez, Andy R. Ness, AS Singh, CG Owen, CL Ogden, Debbie A. Lawlor, DS Freedman, DSL Gardner, E Falaschetti, E Sundblom, George Davey Smith, J Golding, Jennifer Logue, Kate Tilling, KK Ong, KK Ong, KK Ong, L Dubois, Laura D. Howe, LD Howe, Li Benfield, Naveed Sattar, R Sinha, RR Kipping, StataCorp, TJ Cole, Y Wang   +29 more
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Body mass index percentiles versus body composition assessments: Challenges for disease risk classifications in children

Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2023
BackgroundIdentifying at-risk children with optimal specificity and sensitivity to allow for the appropriate intervention strategies to be implemented is crucial to improving the health and well-being of children. We determined relationships of body mass
Jody L. Clasey, Jody L. Clasey, Elizabeth A. Easley, Elizabeth A. Easley, Margaret O. Murphy, Stefan G. Kiessling, Arnold Stromberg, Aric Schadler, Hong Huang, John A. Bauer   +9 more
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Trends in BMI Percentile and Body Fat Percentage in Children 12 to 17 Years of Age

Children, 2022
This study evaluates the cross-sectional trends in body fat percentage (BF%) and body mass index (BMI) percentile rank, and the relationship between the two in 332 (177 boys, 155 girls) 12- to 17-year-old children.
Pat R. Vehrs, Gilbert W. Fellingham, Angela McAferty, Laurel Kelsey   +3 more
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Association between fat mass index and fat-free mass index values and cardiovascular risk in adolescents

Revista Paulista de Pediatria, 2016
Objective: To describe the association between fat mass index and fat-free mass index values and factors associated with cardiovascular risk in adolescents in the city of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais.
Patrícia Morais de Oliveira, Fabiana Almeida da Silva, Renata Maria Souza Oliveira, Larissa Loures Mendes, Michele Pereira Netto, Ana Paula Carlos Cândido   +5 more
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FAT-FREE MASS INDEX AND FAT MASS INDEX OF INHABITANTS OF THE CITY OF BIALA PODLASKA

Pedagogics, Psychology, Medical-Biological Problems of Physical Training and Sports, 2015
Introduction: A steady and considerable increase in the incidence of overweight and obesity is observed in the majority of developed countries. It affects every age group, regardless of sex and race.
Agnieszka Wasiluk, Jerzy Saczuk
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Body composition and pulmonary function in Cystic Fibrosis

Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2014
Background: Lower body mass index (BMI) is associated with worse pulmonary function in cystic fibrosis (CF). Hypothesis: Lean body mass (LBM) is more strongly associated with pulmonary function than BMI is.Methods: Anthropometrics, body composition by ...
Saba eSheikh, Babette S Zemel, Virginia A Stallings, Ronald C Rubenstein, Andrea eKelly   +4 more
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Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for height and body mass index in ∼700,000 individuals of European ancestry

bioRxiv, 2018
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) stand as powerful experimental designs for identifying DNA variants associated with complex traits and diseases. In the past decade, both the number of such studies and their sample sizes have increased dramatically.
L. Yengo, J. Sidorenko, K. Kemper, Zhili Zheng, A. Wood, M. Weedon, T. Frayling, J. Hirschhorn, Jian Yang, P. Visscher   +9 more
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Comparison of obesity and metabolic syndrome prevalence using fat mass index, body mass index and percentage body fat.

PLoS ONE, 2021
BackgroundAccurate obesity classification is important so that appropriate intervention can be instituted to modify metabolic risk factors. Commonly utilized body mass index (BMI) and percentage body fat (PBF) are influenced by lean mass whereas fat mass
Joseph C Wong, Sheila O'Neill, Belinda R Beck, Mark R Forwood, Soo Keat Khoo   +4 more
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Obese patients with a binge eating disorder have an unfavorable metabolic and inflammatory profile [PDF]

, 2015
To evaluate whether obese patients with a binge eating disorder (BED) have an altered metabolic and inflammatory profile related to their eating behaviors compared with non-BED obese.A total of 115 White obese patients consecutively recruited underwent ...
Aloi, M, Arturi, F, Caroleo, M, De Fazio, P, Rania, M, Ruffo, M, Segura-Garcia, C, Sesti, G, Succurro, E   +8 more
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Prevalence of high body mass index in US children and adolescents, 2007-2008.

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2010
CONTEXT The prevalence of high body mass index (BMI) among children and adolescents in the United States appeared to plateau between 1999 and 2006. OBJECTIVES To provide the most recent estimates of high BMI among children and adolescents and high ...
Cynthia L Ogden, M. Carroll, L. Curtin, M. Lamb, K. Flegal   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source