It is well known that people with high levels of body fat are at higher risk for developing diabetes mellitus, kidney disease, and cardiovascular disorders. Since individuals who are slightly overweight, or even individuals of normal weight, can vary in body fat distribution, their metabolic profiles and the degree of association of these profiles with cardiometabolic risk factors may differ. F...

Empty-body composition and fat distribution were determined for 55 nonpregnant, mature Bos indicus-Bos taurus crossbred cows fed to achieve variation in fatness. Prior to slaughter, cows were condition and frame scored, weighed and measured for hook height, hook width, heart girth and lengths from point of shoulder to pin and hook to pin. Fat thickness at three locations and ribeye area were me...

Familial partial lipodystrophy, Dunnigan type (FPLD), is a rare autosomal dominant genetic disorder characterized by gradual loss of sc fat from the extremities, commencing at the time of puberty. Excess fat deposition may occur in the face and neck area. Limited information is available about adipose tissue distribution in patients with FPLD. To investigate whether there is a unique pattern of...

BACKGROUND Vertebral endplate (Modic) abnormalities are important structural lesions in the spine, but their association with body composition and fat distribution have not been examined. Moreover, no study has examined whether Modic change are related to other structural features of low back pain, such as reduced intervertebral disc height. METHODS Seventy-two community-based individuals not...

Contact structures, as well their holomorphic and quaternionic counterparts are the primary examples of strongly bracket generating (or fat) distributions. In this article we associate a numerical invariant to corank $2$ fat distribution on manifolds, referred \emph{degree} distribution. The real underlying contact structure is degree $2$. Using Gromov's sheaf theoretic analytic techniques $h$-...

CONTEXT GH treatment of short children born small for gestational age (SGA) results in a decline in fat mass (FM) and an increase in lean body mass (LBM). It is, however, unknown whether these changes persist into adulthood. OBJECTIVE Our objective was to assess the long-term impact of GH treatment during childhood on body composition and fat distribution. PATIENTS AND DESIGN A total of 377...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the relationship between endogenous androgens and body fat distribution in early and late postmenopausal women. MATERIALS AND METHODS We enrolled postmenopausal women consisting of an early group (≤ 5 years since menopause, n = 105) and a late group (≥ 10 years since menopause, n = 107). Each group was subdivided into normal weight (BMI <24 kg/m(2)) group, overweight...

BACKGROUND Adiposity is a modifiable factor that has been implicated in tendinopathy. As tendon pain reduces physical activity levels and can lead to weight gain, associations between tendon pathology and adiposity must be studied in individuals without tendon pain. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine whether fat distribution was associated with asymptomatic Achilles tendon pa...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background : recently autologous fat tissue transfer has gained much popularity. on the other hand, applying the transferring methods with a higher survival rate is still controversial. the aim of this study is to compare dermis-fat graft and dermal-fascia-fat graft. methods : this animal study was conducted in 2008-2009. ...