BACKGROUND Enlargement of adipocyte is associated with their dysfunction and alterations in metabolic functions. OBJECTIVES We evaluated the association of adipocyte size of subcutaneous and omental adipose tissue with body composition and cardiovascular risk factors in Asian Indians. METHODOLOGY Eighty (40 males and 40 females) non-diabetic adult subjects undergoing elective abdominal surg...

OBJECTIVE The primary purpose of this study was to determine the impact of two exercise dosages on reducing adiposity in minority girls. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixty-two overweight Hispanic and African-American girls participated in one of two intense summer interventions in Houston, TX: Intervention A (exposure to about 40 hours physical activities) or Intervention B (exposure to 60 hours of ...

BACKGROUND We evaluated the body composition and its association with hypogonadism in adult male long-term acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) survivors. METHODS The cohort included 49 long-term male ALL survivors and 55 age-matched healthy controls. Fat and lean mass was assessed by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry; blood biochemistry was obtained for adipokines and testicular endocrine marke...

Peak metabolic equivalent (MET) is the most reliable indicator of cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF). The aim of this study was to examine the association between CRF indicated by peak MET and body mass index (BMI) or fat mass index (FMI) in Taiwanese children and adolescents (C-A). Data of 638 C-A aged 10-18 that received symptom-limited treadmill exercise testing was analyzed. Anthropometry-body...

and indeed many of the other analyses reported in our paper do not suffer from potential bias due to weak instruments. Hartwig and Davies did, however, suggest that we could have used estimates from an external source to obtain less biased results in our MR-Egger analyses. Whereas we agree that this would be good practice in most situations, we do not feel that it would have been appropriate in...

Obesity may accelerate ageing through chronic inflammation. To further examine this association, we assessed current adiposity, adiposity at early adulthood and life course overweight trajectories in relation to leukocyte telomere length (LTL). We included a total of 7,008 nationally representative U.S. residents and collected information on objectively measured body mass index (BMI), waist cir...

Skeletal muscle insulin resistance (IR) is typically severe in type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM). However, the factors that account for interindividual differences in the severity of IR are not well understood. The current study was undertaken to examine the respective roles of plasma FFA, regional adiposity, and other metabolic factors as determinants of the severity of skeletal muscle IR in type ...

Objectives: Clínica Universidad de Navarra-Body Adiposity Estimator (CUN-BAE) is considered to be a more accurate indicator of body fat estimation. We aimed investigate the association CUN-BAE with risk type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and compare strength between CUN-BAE, mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) T2DM. Methods: The data were obtained from annual h...