Objective: To evaluate the association of new anthropometric indicators with glycemic control in overweight patients type II diabetes. Methods: The sample consisted 164 diabetic selected for convenience. Demographic, socioeconomic variables and time since diabetes diagnosis were collected using a structured questionnaire. Anthropometric measurements weight, height, waist circumference (WC) hip ...

It has been suggested that the current definitions of obesity may not be appropriate for African populations (1–3). However, few studies of anthropometric indicators of cardiometabolic risk have been conducted within sub-Saharan Africa, where obesity is a rapidly growing problem (4,5). A better understanding of the relationship between adiposity and the risk of cardiometabolic disease in sub-Sa...

Abstract The knowledge of coaches has been used in research on talent identification and development. objective was to investigate how Brazilian triathlon identify talents what is the importance different factors indicators for development young triathletes. 37 (89% male; 36.2 ± 8.3 years; 43% international competitive level) answered an online questionnaire about anthropometric, physical-motor...

Despite extensive growth in recent years, the field of "quality-of-life" appraisal still evokes debate about basic perception of the concept and is accompanied by a plethora of indexes for measurement. One prime reason for the problems is that the measurements have been transferred from two separate sources - medical health status indexes and social-science population indexes - neither of which...