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Can mid-upper arm circumference and calf circumference be the proxy measures to detect undernutrition among elderly? Findings of a community-based survey in rural Puducherry, India

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2017
Introduction: Major proportion of the elderly with under nutrition is undetected in the community. One of the feasible ways to detect under nutrition among elderly would be screening in the field settings.
Kalaiselvi Selvaraj, R Jayalakshmy, Arjumand Yousuf, Arvind Kumar Singh, Gomathi Ramaswamy, C Palanivel   +5 more
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Thiopurines are negatively associated with anthropometric parameters in pediatric Crohn's disease. [PDF]

, 2018
AimTo determine the distribution of anthropometric parameter (AP)-z-scores and characterize associations between medications/serum biomarkers and AP-z-scores in pediatric Crohn's disease (CD).MethodsCD patients [< chronological age (CA) 21 years] were
Andrews, Howard, Chao, Cewin, Gupta, Neera, Leu, Cheng-Shiun, Lustig, Robert H, Vittinghoff, Eric   +5 more
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Health Outcomes in Children and Adolescents With Overweight or Obesity Exposed to Physical Activity Interventions: An Umbrella Review Covering Over 1200 Trials

Obesity Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Childhood and adolescent obesity poses health risks. Standardizing outcome measurements in physical activity interventions enhances evidence comparability. This study summarizes health outcomes reported in systematic reviews and classifies them under an existing taxonomy as a preliminary step toward the future development of a core outcome set.
Fernanda Dias Massierer, Cíntia Ehlers Botton, Jessica Pietra da Silva Carvalho, Gisele Cassão, Angélica Trevisan de Nardi, Jayne Feter, Andresa Conrado Ignacio, Rodrigo Leal‐Menezes, Nórton Luís Oliveira, Lucineia Orsolin Pfeifer, Leandro dos Santos, Lucas Porto Santos, Larissa Xavier Neves da Silva, Luciana dos Passos Silva, Frederico Morais Schwingel, Carolina Weingärtner Welter, Daniel Umpierre   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Changes in single skinfold thickness in 100 km ultramarathoners

Open Access Journal of Sports Medicine, 2012
Beat Knechtle,1,2 Sabrina Baumgartner,1 Patrizia Knechtle,2 Christoph Alexander R&uuml;st,1 Thomas Rosemann,1 Ra&uacute;l Besc&oacute;s31Institute of General Practice and Health Services Research, University of Zurich, Zurich ...
Knechtle B, Baumgartner S, Knechtle P, R&uuml;st CA, Rosemann T, Besc&oacute;s R   +5 more
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Evaluating School‐Based Obesity Prevention Interventions in 6‐ to 12‐Year‐Old Children: A Scoping Review of All Reported Outcomes and Expert Consultation

Obesity Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction This scoping review aims to identify all outcomes reported in school‐based obesity prevention interventions in childhood. It serves as an essential first step towards developing an internationally agreed‐upon Core Outcome Set (COS), which defines what should be measured in all school‐based childhood obesity prevention studies ...
Teatske M. Altenburg, Lotte W. de Vries, Iris J. Grooten, Janneke van 't Hooft, Arend W. van Deutekom, Tessa Roseboom, Erica van den Akker, Michael Duncan, Ulf Ekelund, John J. Reilly, Lisa Reilly, Annette Stafleu, Martyn Standage, Mai J. M. Chinapaw, Deirdre M. Harrington   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measurement agreement in percent body fat estimates among laboratory and field assessments in college students: Use of equivalence testing.

PLoS ONE, 2019
The purpose of this study was to examine the agreement in percent body fat estimates among 7 laboratory and field assessments against dual-emission x-ray absorptiometry using equivalence testing.
Ryan D Burns, You Fu, Nora Constantino
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Different factors associate with body image in adolescence than in emerging adulthood: A gender comparison in a follow-up study

Health Psychology Report, 2017
Background Body image dissatisfaction has been linked with a range of adverse psychosocial outcomes in both genders and has become an important public health issue. Across all ages, women have reported being more dissatisfied with their bodies than men.
Sunna Gestsdottir, Erla Svansdottir, Hedinn Sigurdsson, Arsaell Arnarsson, Yngvar Ommundsen, Sigurbjorn Arngrimsson, Thorarinn Sveinsson, Erlingur Johannsson   +7 more
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Coronofrontal rhytidectomy: A new approach for the treatment of severe pseudoptosis and superior entropion in dogs

Veterinary Ophthalmology, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 403-412, March 2025.
Abstract Purpose To describe the use of coronofrontal rhytidectomy (CFR) for the treatment of severe pseudoptosis and superior entropion in dogs, and to provide guidelines for the selection of surgical technique depending on presentation. Methods A review of medical records of dogs that underwent rhytidectomy from 2002 to 2023 was carried out ...
Rita Vilao Cardoso, Marta Leiva, Cristina Seruca, Rodrigo P. Lacerda, Fernando Laguna, M. Teresa Peña   +5 more
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Association of Body Fat Mass and Fat Distribution With the Incidence of Hypertension in a Population‐Based Chinese Cohort: A 22‐Year Follow‐Up

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2018
BackgroundThere have been few studies on the association between the incidence of hypertension and the presence and distribution of body fat. The aim of this article was to evaluate this association.
Yongjie Chen, Xuan Liang, Senshuang Zheng, Yuan Wang, Wenli Lu   +4 more
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Ethnic Differences in Carotid Intima-Media Thickness Between UK Children of Black African-Caribbean and White European Origin. [PDF]

, 2012
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: UK black African-Caribbean adults have higher risks of stroke than white Europeans and have been shown to have increased carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT).
Bhowruth, DJ, Cook, DG, Deanfield, JE, Donin, AS, Ellins, EA, Masi, S, Nightingale, CM, Owen, CG, Prescott, MH, Rapala, A, Rudnicka, AR, Sattar, N, Whincup, PH   +12 more
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