UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Aerobic capacity (VO2max) is highly dependent upon body composition of an individual and body composition varies with ethnicity. The purpose of this study was to check the concurrent validity of the non-exercise prediction equation developed by Jackson and colleagues (1990) using percentage body fat as a variable in Asian Indian adults. METHODS One hundred twenty coll...

Correlated responses in whole-body composition were determined in 12-wk-old male mice from replicate lines selected for 12 generations for high (HF) or low (LF) epididymal fat pad weight as a percentage of body weight (EPID) and high (HL) or low (LL) hind carcass weight as a percentage of body weight. The HF and LF lines diverged (P less than .01) in body fat percentage (FAT) and subcutaneous d...

OBJECTIVE Recent studies suggest an involvement of the obese (OB) gene and its product leptin in the regulation of body fat. Since adults with growth hormone deficiency (GHD) have a high body fat mass which can be normalized with recombinant human (rh) GH therapy, we investigated whether GH influences serum leptin directly or indirectly via its lipolytic effect. DESIGN Fourteen adults with GH...

to explore the abnormalities in iranian athletes' electrocardiogram and find any relation with body fat. 239 international athletes were involved in this cross sectional study. body-fat percentage and resting 12-lead ecgs were recorded from all participants. of 239 participant athletes, 212 were male and 27 female. 60% of participants had sinus bradycardia. a total of 84% of the athletes demons...

BACKGROUND Longitudinal studies in infants and children suggest that low total energy expenditure (EE) (TEE) and parental body composition are important predisposing factors to obesity. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to examine potential predictors of changes in total or percentage body fat over 2.7 y in premenarcheal girls. DESIGN We studied 47 normal-weight prepubertal girls aged 4.8...

INTRODUCTION Obesity is considered one of the most serious public health problems of the 21st century in children and adolescents. The percentile or Z-score of the body mass index is widely used in children and adolescents to define and assess overweight and obesity, but it does not determine the percentage of total body fat. Other anthropometric measurements that determine total body fat are s...

introduction: complications of obesity and high fat in children are grave now and future. the aim of this research is comparing percentage of body fat in active and inactive girls using anthropometric parameters.materials and methods: this research is descriptive- correlation that 144 active(n= 70) and inactive(n= 74) girls aged 8 to 10 years old were selected by random cluster sampling method ...