Obesity can be defined as an excess of body fat. Its clinical management is complex and frequently unsuccessful [4]. A surrogate marker for body fat content is the Body Mass Index (BMI), which is widely used both for epidemiological studies and clinical evaluations [5]. Among children and adolescents age and gender cut-off values should be used [6]. A better way to define obesity should be in t...

BACKGROUND Previous research suggests that use of BMI as a screening tool to assess health in youth has limitations. Valid alternative measures to assess body composition are needed to accurately identify children who are aerobically fit, which is an indicator of health status. The purpose of this study was to examine the associations between select anthropometric measures and cardiorespiratory...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to examine the association between daily movement patterns and dual energy X-ray absorptiometry-determined body fat percent (DXA-BF%) among children and adolescents while applying both traditional and novel analytical procedures. METHODS Using data from the cross-sectional 2003-2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (n = 5607), physical ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether differences in vascular reactivity existed among normal weight, overweight, and obese older men and women, and to examine the association between abdominal fat distribution and vascular reactivity. METHODS Eighty-seven individuals who were 60 years of age or older (age = 69 +/- 7 yrs; mean +/- SD) were grouped into normal weight (BMI < 25; n = 30), overweight (B...

AIM School-based interventions to tackle the rise in childhood overweight and obesity remain inconclusive and are often limited in their application to diverse populations. To inform and measure the effect of the implementation of a primary school-based longitudinal randomised controlled nutrition and activity intervention, Project Energize, baseline measures of body size and blood pressure wer...

background: the association of duration of breastfeeding (bf)  with  weight disorders remains controversial.  this study aimed to evaluate the association of bf with anthropometric measures and weight disorders in iranian children and adolescents. materials and methods: using multistage random cluster sampling method, a representative sample of 25,000 school students were selected from urban an...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to identify the prevalence and factors associated with body mass index (BMI) in children aged 9-11 years. METHODS The study is part of the International Study of Childhood Obesity Lifestyle and the Environment (ISCOLE). Body composition was determined using the bipolar bioimpedance technique. The mean BMI value was categorized as recommended by the World Health Orga...

AIMS We hypothesized that subjects with a normal body mass index (BMI), but high body fat (BF) content [normal weight obesity (NWO)], have a higher prevalence of cardiometabolic dysregulation and are at higher risk for cardiovascular (CV) mortality. METHODS AND RESULTS We analysed 6171 subjects >20 years of age from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) and t...

The purpose of this study was to determine the association between regular (sugar containing) and diet (artificially sweetened) soft drink consumption and obesity in children from 12 countries ranging in levels of economic and human development. The sample included 6162 children aged 9-11 years. Information on soft drink consumption was obtained using a food frequency questionnaire. Percentage ...

OBJECTIVE To determine if dietary calcium was negatively related to children's body fat (BF), if BF indexes and calcium intakes changed over time, and to identify variables related to BF and calcium intake. DESIGN Percent BF and kg BF were assessed by dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) in 8-year-old children. In a prospective design, height, weight, dietary intakes, and related variables...