Methods Of the initial 84 women and their offspring who participated in the RCT, follow-up data were available on 46 mothers (26 exercisers, 20 controls) and 46 children. At each follow-up visit (6 months, 1 year, 2 years, 4 years, 6-8 years) clinical assessment included measurement of mothers’ and children’s heights, weights, BMI, and waist circumference, as well as blood pressure. Body compos...

Methods Subjects (n=125) were internationally competitive. Between 2011-2014 BMD was taken at the lumbar spine (L1-L4) and left femur, by Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA, Lunar Prodigy, GE Healthcare), using the same scanner, and a qualified technician. Ethics was approved by the Australian Institute of Sport Human Ethics committee. Subjects gave prior written informed consent. Descriptiv...

Background: Bone mineral density (BMD) measurements are frequently performed repeatedly for each patient. Subsequent BMD measurements allow reproducibility to be assessed. Objective: To examine the reproducibility of BMD by dual energy x ray absorptiometry (DXA) and to investigate the practical value of different measures of reproducibility in a group of postmenopausal women. Methods: Ninety fi...

Materials and Methods: Eighty-seven premenopausal and 18 postmenopausal Turkish women were classified into four groups according to age. Age, height, weight, menopausal status, age at menopause (in postmenopausal women), years since menopause (in postmenopausal woman), parity and total lactation period were recorded. Lumbar spine BMD (L2-L4) was measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEX...

Single energy computed tomography (CT) scanners use measurements of densities to detect explosives in luggage. It is desirable to apply dual energy techniques to these CT scanners to obtain atomic number measurements to reduce false alarm rates. However, the direct application of existing dual energy techniques has practical problems, such as, approximation errors and lack of boundary constrain...

Dual-energy X-ray computed tomography (DECT) is a technique which is designed to allow the determination of energy-independent material properties. In this study, results of a computer simulation show that energy-dependent systematic errors exist in the values of attenuation coefficients synthesized using the basis material decomposition technique with acrylic and aluminum as the basis material...

Bone density is definitely a bona fide health concern! It?s directly related to the strength of your skeletal frame, which supports your entire body and allows you to move in addition to protecting your soft organs from injury. So, the lower the bone density, the more vulnerable you are to breaks and fractures (more on that later). Bone density tests [2] are administered by health care professi...

Bone density is definitely a bona fide health concern! It?s directly related to the strength of your skeletal frame, which supports your entire body and allows you to move in addition to protecting your soft organs from injury. So, the lower the bone density, the more vulnerable you are to breaks and fractures (more on that later). Bone density tests [2] are administered by health care professi...

In clinical practice, low bone mineral densi ty (BMD) and, therefore, scarcity of bone mineral is identified and quantified by dual energy X-ray absorptio-metry (DXA) (1). However, BMD predicts only 66Ê74% of variance of the bone strength (2), and many individuals with normal areal BMD suffer fractures (3). It is well recognized that other aspects of bone composition and structure may contribut...

OBJECTIVE Obesity is the source of many health problems in Guadeloupe. The aim of this study was to describe the relationships between daily energy intake and expenditure, and weight status. METHODS Three consecutive daily recalls for activities and food intake were used to assess energy expenditure and energy intake in 20- to 60-year-old Guadeloupian men and women. RESULTS The absolute dai...