Background: Choreographic group-based fitness classes are the most common type of physical activity practiced by women, being a viable and sustainable strategy to improve general health. Thus, aim this study was analyze effect 16-week healthy lifestyle program, based on choreographic classes, cardiometabolic health-related anthropometric indices metabolic blood profile among overweight sedentar...

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVES Early detection of reduced insulin sensitivity (IS) and insulin resistance (IR) is desirable. The aim here was to evaluate correlations of anthropometric indicators for identifying IR or IS and determine the cutoff points of the most effective indicators. DESIGN AND SETTING Cross-sectional study in the city of São Paulo. METHODS Sixty-one individuals with normal fasti...

Schematic eye models have typically been used to explain the average monochromatic and chromatic imaging properties of the eye. Both monochromatic aberrations and transverse chromatic aberration are known to vary widely across subjects. However, to our knowledge, the ability of schematic eye models to predict these individual variations has not been tested experimentally. We used a spatially re...

The success of high-speed rail systems in Europe and Japan has led to the consideration of deployment of such systems in the United States. Since operating conditions in the United States are different from those in Europe and Japan, questions arise as to the safety-related behaviour of such systems. To address questions of dynamic behaviour, linear simulation models have been developed to comp...

OBJECTIVE To compare some anthropometric indexes of obesity and identify among them which one best discriminates the high coronary risk (HCR). METHODS A cross-section study, with sample consisting of 968 adults, between 30 and 74 years old, being 391 (40.4%) men. Many Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves were obtained and compared to areas under them among the conicity index (C inde...

BACKGROUND Visceral obesity is associated with higher occurrence of cardiovascular events. There are few studies about the accuracy of anthropometric clinical indicators, using Computed Tomography (CT) as the gold standard. We aimed to determine the accuracy of anthropometric clinical indicators for discrimination of visceral obesity. METHODS Cross-sectional study with 191 adults and elderly ...

Recent observational studies have reported controversial results for the association between different anthropometric indices of obesity and severity of atherosclerosis. The aim of the current study is to determine the associations between anthropometric indices with severity of atherosclerosis in adult population in north of Iran.The cross-sectional study was performed on 610 participants, who...

We aimed to estimate the heritability and genetic correlation between glucose homeostasis and adiposity traits in a population in a rural community in Brazil. The Jequitinhonha Community Family Study cohort consists of subjects aged ≥18 years residing in rural areas in Brazil. The data on the following traits were assembled for 280 individuals (51.7% women): body mass index (BMI), body fat perc...

BACKGROUND Body weight has been increasing in the general population and is an established risk factor for hypertension, diabetes, and all-cause and cardiovascular mortality. Patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis (PD) gain weight, mainly during the first months of treatment. The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between body composition and metabolic and inflammatory status in ...

INTRODUCTION Studies suggest that anxiety is an independent predictor of adverse cardiovascular events. However, few studies have investigated the association between cardiovascular risk factors (RF) and severity of anxiety disorders (AD) in childhood and adolescents. OBJECTIVES To assess the prevalence of cardiovascular RF in children and adolescents with anxiety disorders and their associat...