Background: The prevalence of childhood obesity in Greece is among the highest Europe. Body composition may be used as a screening tool to identify children with excess weight and those at risk for developing metabolic complications. aim study was provide data on body indices from large Greek pediatric population investigate possible association between these obesity.

Introduction: Metabolic syndrome constitutes a cluster of risk factors such as obesity, hyperglycemia,  hypertension, and dyslipidemia, which increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases and type II diabetes mellitus. In this review article, we aimed to discuss the possible effects of fasting and regular physical activity on risk factors for cardiovascular diseases.  Methods: Online databases i...

Type 2 diabetes mellitus consists of metabolic disturbances characterised mainly characterized by hyperglycemia which usually result from the combination of resistance to insulin action, inadequate insulin secretion, and excessive or inappropriate glucagon secretion. In clinical practice its very difficult to establish how much part of this metabolic disturbances is due to lack of insulin and h...

Insulin resistance is one of the major aggravating factors for metabolic syndrome. There are many methods available for estimation of insulin resistance which range from complex techniques down to simple indices. For all methods of assessing insulin resistance it is essential that their validity and reliability is established before using them as investigations. The reference techniques of hype...

Five free-living women (ages 23-38 years) who consumed a self-selected diet and five women (ages 23-44 years) residing in a metabolic unit who were fed constant diet were assessed for variation in vitamin and general chemistry indices. Blood was drawn from these women once a month for five months, once a week for five weeks, and once a day for five days to assess analytical and biological varia...

BACKGROUND Obesity is associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors (hypertension, dyslipidemia and diabetes) and metabolic syndrome (MetS), and it may be flawed that most studies only use one obesity index to predict these risk factors. Therefore, our study aims to compare the various combined obesity indices systematically, and to find the optimal combined obesity indices to predi...

Some of most used indicators in marine ecology are nucleic acid-derived indices. They can be divided by target levels in three groups: 1) at the organism level as ecophysiologic indicators, indicators such as RNA:DNA ratios, DNA:dry weight and RNA:protein, 2) at the population level, indicators such as growth rate, starvation incidence or fisheries impact indicators, and 3) at the community lev...

ss Open Acce Poster presentation Effects of ingesting a thermogenic/anti-inflammatory supplement while participating in a resistance training program on indices of body composition and metabolic, cardiovascular, muscular, and hemodynamic function in overweight females Erika Nassar*, Jen Morellion, Geoffrey Hudson, Brian Shelmadine, Julie Culbertson, Thomas Buford, Richard Kreider and Darryn Wil...

Fertility in mammals requires adequate nutrition and a certain reserve of metabolic fuel (Van Der Spuy, 1985). Individuals experiencing wasting diseases (e.g. insulin-dependent diabetes), severe dietary restriction (e.g. anorexics), or who are high-performance athletes (e.g. marathon runners or ballet dancers) may have severely impaired reproductive systems (De Souza & Metzger, 1991; Stewart, 1...