Background: Obesity is one of the causes of onset and exacerbation of rheumatoid arthritis. However, limited studies have examined the association between body composition and severity of disease. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between severity of rheumatoid arthritis with various types of obesity and the comparison of anthropometric indices between patients with rheumato...

Abstract Background Neck circumference, a proxy for upper-body subcutaneous fat, is unique and pathogenic fat depot that confers additional metabolic risk. The purpose of present study was to determine whether neck circumference associates with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in postmenopausal women normal body mass index. Methods A cross-sectional survey (n = 2492) 3.1-year follow-up ...

Hormone sensitive lipase is thought to be the rate-limiting enzyme of lipolysis; phosphatidate phosphohydrolase that of lipogenesis. Both these enzyme systems were studied in vitro with the addition of epinephrine. The results show that: (a) hormone sensitive lipase is four times more active in rat epididymal fat than in sheep tail fat and (b) sheep omental fat is twice as active as tail fat. (...

Unhealthy dietary behaviours may contribute to obesity along with energy imbalance. Both positive and null associations of snacking and BMI have been reported, but the association between snacking and total adiposity or pattern of fat deposition remains unevaluated. The objective of this study was to investigate the associations between snacking frequency and detailed adiposity measurements. A ...

objectives: to compare bmi and inverted bmi in evaluating body measurement, resting blood pressure, dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (dexa) parameters of fat mass and metabolic risk factors in iranian children materials and methods: this is a cross-sectional study on 477 children aged 9-18 yearsin the south of iran. weight, height, resting blood pressure, waist and hip circumference and puberta...

BACKGROUND Racial/ethnic disparities in the associations of body fatness with hormones and metabolic factors remain poorly understood. Therefore, we evaluated whether the associations of overall and central body fatness with circulating sex steroid hormones and metabolic factors differ by race/ethnicity. METHODS Data from 1,243 non-Hispanic white (NHW), non-Hispanic black (NHB) and Mexican-Am...

Introduction: Adenotonsillectomy is one of the most frequent surgical operations on children, which may result in weight gain in a number ways, for instance, by increasing IGF-1 or decreasing respiratory hyperactivity. Materials and Methods: This was an intervention study with a control group, conducted on fifty 3-10-year-old children who had undergone adenotonsillectomy and on fifty childre...

Objective: To verify the correlation between body fat location measurements with the body mass index (BMI), body fat percentage (BF%) and height, according to the nutritional status in female adolescents. Methods: A controlled cross-sectional study was carried out with 113 adolescents (G1: 38 with normal weight, but with high body fat level, G2: 40 with normal weight and G3: 35 overweight) from...

Shield tunnels are widely used in underground transportation. The shield tail brush is an important component of the machine, but also can exert adverse influence on segment as it induce considerable and uneven pressure thereon. Therefore, necessary to consider calculations segment. However, there few studies calculation method this pressure. As a consequence, study carried out laboratory tests...

BACKGROUND The built environment might be associated with development of obesity and related disorders. We examined whether neighbourhood exposure to fast-food outlets and physical activity facilities were associated with adiposity in UK adults. METHODS We used cross-sectional observational data from UK Biobank. Participants were aged 40-70 years and attended 21 assessment centres between 200...