BACKGROUND Physical activity and sedentary behavior are common factors influencing cardiovascular health. However, how school and leisure-time activity/sedentary behavior are associated with physical fitness and blood lipid levels in primary school children in consideration of gender disparity remains unclear. METHODS Data was obtained from a health and nutrition survey on primary school chil...

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of anthropometric and body composition parameters in the prediction of body fat percentage and lipid profile in schoolchildren. Methods: Cross-sectional study with 209 schoolchildren aged between seven and nine years old. The following variables were evaluated: weight, height, body mass index, percentage of body fat, arm and waist circumferences, conicity ind...

Anthropometry is a simple reliable method for quantifying body size and proportions. The present study was aimed to study the association of selected established anthropometric indices of obesity such as waist circumference (WC), waist-hip ratio (WHR) and body mass index (BMI) with dyslipidemia in the population residing in south India. Hundred healthy subjects within the age group of 25 and 60...

Koley S. A study of anthropometric profile of indian inter-university male cricketers. J. Hum. Sport Exerc. Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 427-435, 2011. The purpose of this study was of two-fold, firstly, to evaluate the anthropometric profile of Indian inter-university cricketers and, secondly, to search the correlations among the anthropometric characteristics studied (if any). To serve this purpose, tw...

OBJECTIVE To compare blood pressure, lipid profile, food intake, and anthropometric data of adolescents with or without a familial history of hypertension. METHODS Forty-three adolescents from both sexes were assessed, with ages ranging from 11 to 18 years old. Twenty had hypertensive parents, and 23 had normotensive parents. The following variables were examined: blood pressure, food intake,...