Abstract Background Adiposity is a strong risk factor for cancer incidence and mortality. However, most of the evidence available has focused on body mass index (BMI) as marker adiposity. There limited relationships with other adiposity markers, if these associations are linear or not. The aim this study was to investigate six markers mortality from 24 cancers by accounting potential non-linear...

MEHDIZADEH, R. Relationship between body water compartments and indexes of adiposity in sedentary young adult girls. Brazilian Journal of Biomotricity. v. 6, n. 2, p. 84-92, 2012. Changes in Total body water (TBW) that occur with variation of body weight (BW), indicating a relation between body water content and adipose tissue mass, because BW changes directly relate to changes in FM content in...

Background The utility of bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) derived adiposity measures as compared to anthropometric measures for the assessment of adiposity-related health risk is not clear. We aimed to clarify the relationships of BIA and anthropometric derived adipose measures with blood pressure and hypertension, and to compare the discriminative ability of the respective measures for ...

background: general and abdominal obesity are major global health problems. this cross-sectional study was conducted to evaluate the association between consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (ssbs) and body mass index and waist circumference status in 5852 iranian adults within the framework of the tehran lipid and glucose study (tlgs). methods: intakes of ssbs including carbonated drinks an...

The relative impacts of regional and generalized adiposity on insulin sensitivity have not been fully defined. Therefore, we investigated the relationship of insulin sensitivity (measured using hyperinsulinemic, euglycemic clamp technique with [3-3H]glucose turnover) to total body adiposity (determined by hydrodensitometry) and regional adiposity. The latter was assessed by determining subcutan...

OBJECTIVE To examine the associations of adiposity with measured and self-reported academic performance independently of demographics and physical activity among U.S. adolescents. RESEARCH METHODS AND PROCEDURES We surveyed 666 students 11 to 14 years old from seven middle schools in Los Angeles, CA. Weight and height were measured. Actual grade point average was obtained from school records....

BACKGROUND The use of structural equation modeling and latent variables remains uncommon in epidemiology despite its potential usefulness. The latter was illustrated by studying cross-sectional and longitudinal relationships between eating behavior and adiposity, using four different indicators of fat mass. METHODS Using data from a longitudinal community-based study, we fitted structural equ...

We describe here an example of structural equation modeling in epidemiology. The association between birth weight and adiposity in early adult life, adjusted for the number of cigarettes smoked during pregnancy and socioeconomic status at birth, was evaluated. Data involving 2,063 adults from the 1978/1979 Ribeirão Preto cohort study were used. Adiposity was measured by body mass index (BMI), w...

BACKGROUND Human obesity is associated with increased heat production; however, subcutaneous adipose tissue provides an insulating layer that impedes heat loss. To maintain normothermia, therefore, obese individuals must increase their heat dissipation. OBJECTIVE The objective was to test the hypothesis that temperature in a heat-dissipating region of the hand is elevated in obese adults. D...