OBJECTIVE Weight loss is common in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Anorexia, postulated to be associated with alteration in taste sensitivity, may contribute to weight loss in these patients. Pulmonary rehabilitation is known to lead to improved exercise performance in patients with COPD. However, the relationship between pulmonary rehabilitation and taste sensitivit...

Several significant interrelations among variation in blood pressure, body fat, and adrenal androgen levels, as assessed by serum dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate concentrations, were found in black male and female adolescents, aged 12 to 16 years. In girls, high levels of dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate were associated with significantly higher levels of blood pressure (alpha = 0.05), even after ...

Obesity is an excess amount of body fat in proportion to lean body mass, to the extent that health is impaired (3). The most commonly used measure of body fat is the body mass index, which is defined as a person’s weight, in kilograms, divided by the square of his/her height in meters. The World Health Organization and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) define overweight as a ...

This study aimed to classify the body composition of puberty students into six categories, using Fat Mass Index (FMI) and Free (FFMI), identify characteristics their physical fitness motor capacity in each category. FMI FFMI are (FM; Mass, FFM; Mass) divided by height squared. The participants were 1,482 high school (815 males 667 females) aged 15-17 years old. measurements height, weight, FFM ...

BACKGROUND Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by increased mortality associated with cardiometabolic disorders including dyslipidaemia, insulin resistance, and cachectic obesity. Tumour necrosis factor inhibitors and interleukin 6 receptor blocker licensed for the treatment of RA decrease inflammation and could thus improve cardiovascular risk, but their e...

This study explored whether anthropometric measures influence magnitude of skin cooling following exposure to whole body cryotherapy (WBC). Height, weight, body fat percentage, and lean mass were measured in 18 male and 14 female participants. Body surface area, body surface area to mass ratio, body mass index, fat-free mass index, and fat mass index were calculated. Thermal images were capture...

BACKGROUND A high birth weight has been suggested to increase the later risk of obesity, as measured by body mass index, but, paradoxically, to decrease the later propensity to cardiovascular disease. Programming of more lean tissue rather than fat mass by a high birth weight might explain this paradox and also explain the association of birth weight with later body mass index. This concept has...

In 2008 the National Center for Health Statistics released a dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) whole body dataset from the NHANES population-based sample acquired with modern fan beam scanners in 15 counties across the United States from 1999 through 2004. The NHANES dataset was partitioned by gender and ethnicity and DXA whole body measures of %fat, fat mass/height(2), lean mass/height(2)...

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether aerobic fitness, body composition, body fat distribution, and inflammation are different in obese postmenopausal women with and without the metabolic syndrome (MS), and whether the severity of MS is associated with these characteristics. Fifty-eight women (age, 59 +/- 1 yr; body mass index, 33.0 +/- 0.6 kg/m2)completed testing of maximal aero...

background: several studies showed the relationship of obesity and overweight with body mass index. according to these studies, because of severe complications of obesity and overweight we wanted to indicate the outbreak rate of obesity and overweight in the certain group of veterans. methods: this study was cross-sectional in design. the numbers of subjects was 106 individuals in isfahan city....