BACKGROUND Thigh circumference is associated with diabetes risk; however, the role of obesity as a potential effect modifier has not been well studied. METHODS We examined the association between thigh circumference and diabetes in a cross-sectional study of 384 612 Koreans aged 30 to 79 years. The association between diabetes and thigh circumference in relation to body mass index (BMI) was a...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Stroke survivors experience disproportionate muscle atrophy and other detrimental tissue composition changes on the paretic side. The purpose was to determine whether myostatin levels are higher in paretic vs nonparetic muscle and the effects of resistive training (RT) on paretic and nonparetic mid-thigh muscle composition and myostatin mRNA expression in stroke survivors...

Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) has been used to estimate skeletal muscle mass, but its application in the elderly is not optimal. The accuracy of BIA may be influenced by the expansion of extracellular water (ECW) relative to muscle mass with aging. Multifrequency BIA (MFBIA) can evaluate the distribution between ECW and intracellular water (ICW), and thus may be superior to single-freq...

OBJECTIVE A higher waist-to-hip ratio, which can be due to a higher waist circumference, a lower hip circumference, or both, is associated with higher glucose levels and incident diabetes. A lower hip circumference could reflect either lower fat mass or lower muscle mass. Muscle mass might be better reflected by thigh circumference. The aim of this study was to investigate the contributions of ...

The aim of this study was to determine how the legs bone mineral density (BMD) is influenced by anthropometry and vertical jumping height in prepubertal children. In total, 64 8-11-year-old schoolchildren (27 boys and 37 girls) were studied. All children were at Tanner stage 1. The subjects' height and body mass were measured and BMI calculated. The following anthropometric parameters directly ...

A Jamaican RAF corporal aged 24 years complained of intermittent low back pain for two years. His first attack occurred when he twisted whilst in a crouching position playing cricket, then in March 1 977 he kicked a football with his left foot and he felt a severe pain in the back of the left thigh. This pain persisted and was accompanied by numbness of the outer side of the left calf and foot,...

Figure 1. (a) Left medial thigh showing discoloration and swelling. Maximal pain to palpation was in the centrally marked area, but pain could be elicited as far back as the dotted lines. (b) Left medial thigh following surgical debridement down to viable fat, fascia, and muscle. DESCRIPTION A 28-year-old woman with a raised body mass index presented feeling unwell with a 16-hour history of inc...

with a 2to 3-month history of increasing discomfort in the left anterior hip and pelvic area. She had also noted a decrease in her stride length, as well as a nontender mass in the thigh. There was some dysesthesia in the leg with long periods of sitting. She denied suffering any associated injury. Her medical history included a protein-S deficiency, a recent atypical Papanicolaou smear that pr...