A cohort of schoolchildren was followed up over 6 years from 1996 to 2001. In the final year, 315 of 500 targeted children were measured. Body mass index (BMI) increased substantially over time (p<0.001), indicating a further rise in obesity into the secondary school years. Two new indicators of obesity were also measured. Waist circumference scores rose as substantially as BMI (p<0.001), and m...

Body fat and lean body mass was assessed in young college students by two different techniques involving NIR method and body circumference measurements. NIR technique significantly over-estimated the body fat as compared to the results obtained by the other method. The difference between the methods was 23-30% high for fat and the variation was 5-9% low for lean body mass for the whole group. R...

currently, obesity has become a worldwide health problem and yet little is known about the impact of changes in obesity indicator on incident hypertension. the aim of this study was to compare the impact of changes in the wc and bmi on incident hypertension in a cohort population.after a baseline investigation, we conducted the first and the second follow-up assessments for subjects after 2 and...

introduction: head circumference (hc) measurement is one of the important parameter for diagnosis of neurological, developmental disorders and dysmorphic syndromes. recognition of different disorders requires an understanding of normal variation for hc size, in particular, in infancy period with most rapid growth of the brain. because of international and interracial standard chart differences ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the impact of early educational experience at age 8 years on child growth status. The Infant Health and Development Program has shown positive impacts to age 8 years on intelligence and adaptive functioning of larger preterm infants. DESIGN Randomized controlled trial. SETTING Home and center based. PARTICIPANTS Three hundred seventy-seven intervention (INT) and 608 n...

Purpose: to find out the features of hip girth (distal) both limbs young boys and girls Bukovynian higher educational institutions, depending on sport type.&#x0D; Materials methods: 115 students education institutions aged from 16 21 years old participated in study, 78 (67.82%) them were 37 (32.18%) girls. The main group was 75 (65.22 %) I-II courses Faculty Physical Culture Human Health (the Y...

Background: Determination of gestational age is an important step pregnancy management and foetal development evaluation in obstetrics. Any error this estimation results prematurity or post maturity case if the expected date delivery not known, there high chance perinatal mortality near outcome. Hence it achieving uneventful gestation to have a sensitive, specific independent obstetric biometri...