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Background: Physical fitness is important for school-age children to improve their learning and playing abilities. Physical fitness is greatly influenced by environmental factors and body adiposity.
Intan Nurwida Hayati Yasrial +3 more
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Introduction: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a non-communicable disease with a high prevalence in Indonesia. T2DM is caused by insulin resistance and relative insulin deficiency. One of the therapy for T2DM is insulin administration which is injected
Amilia Putri Larasati +2 more
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Background Obesity is one of the causes of glomerular hyperfiltration. Studies on the relationship between body fat content and glomerular hyperfiltration have been limited to special children.
Yongchang Yang, Yubin Wu
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Background Estimating total body fat in public hospitals using gold-standard measurements such as air displacement plethysmography (ADP), deuterium oxide dilution, or dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) is unaffordable, and it is challenging to use ...
Giridhara R. Babu +8 more
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Skinfold thickness in elite male professional football players: changes across 3 seasons including a COVID-19 lockdown period [PDF]
This study investigates variations in skinfold thickness in a European professional football team within and across multiple seasons, including before and after COVID-19 restrictions.
Mark Robinson +11 more
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Post-exercise cold-water immersion (CWI) is a widely accepted recovery strategy for maintaining physical performance output. However, existing review articles about the effects of CWI commonly pool data from very heterogenous study designs and thus, do ...
Livia Freitag +13 more
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The Effect of Nutritional Status on Outcome of Hospitalization in Paediatric Liver Disease Patients [PDF]
Introduction: Liver is an important organ for metabolism. It has a major role in integrating the various biochemical pathways of metabolism. Thus, children with chronic liver disease are at high risk for developing undernutrition, with important ...
Yasmeen Mansi +3 more
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Background: Body mass index (BMI) and skinfold thickness are widely used to evaluate body composition. Information on patterns of skinfold thickness may help to understand changes in body composition during growth.
Janatin Hastuti +5 more
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Skinfold calipers: which instrument to use?
The considerable amount of original and generic types of skinfold calipers available is a source of systematic measurement error. This study is a brief report that critically examines the original and illustrated structural configuration of the three ...
Joaquim H. Cintra-Andrade +2 more
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Detecting obesity based on skinfold thicknesses [PDF]
Dear Sir:Zimmermannetal(1)showed,in6–12-y-oldSwisschildren,thatthe 95th BMI percentile of the Centers for Disease Control andPrevention (CDC) cutoffs have a higher sensitivity than do the In-ternational Obesity Task Force (IOTF) obesity cutoffs to detectobesitybasedonskinfoldthicknesses.TheyconcludedthattheCDCcutoffs are superior to the IOTF cutoffs ...
Tim J, Cole +2 more
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