The objective of the present study was to investigate whether a previously reported apparent negative relationship between fat mass and daily physical activity in Japanese adult women would also be observed in Japanese adult men. The subjects were grouped into quartiles of BMI and body fat percentage (%BF). The number of steps walked each day and the duration of light- to vigorous-intensity phy...

The BMI cut-score used to define overweight and obesity was derived primarily using data from Caucasian men and women. The present study evaluated the racial/ethnic bias of BMI to estimate the adiposity of young men and women (aged 17-35 years) using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) determination of percentage body fat (DXA-BF%) as the referent standard. The samples were 806 women and 509...

The incidence of obesity which leads to insulin resistance (IR) and metabolic disorder increases in developing countries including Indonesia. Male adult has higher risk to have abdominal obesity than female which is associated with cardiometabolic disorders. Several anthropometric measurements have been proposed to predict IR. The aim of this study was to investigate whether body mass, body mas...

Our aim was to determine the relationship between body fat percentage (BF%) and body mass index (BMI) and to evaluate the validity of World Health Organisation's BMI cut-off values for obesity. Adult out-patients (n=909, 249 men, 660 women), mean age; 40.5 +/- 14.1 years were included. According to WHO's BMI criteria, 440 subjects were obese (79 men, 361 women). The BF% of participants were mea...

OBJECTIVE Malnutrition, defined as low or excessive body weight, is associated with increased hospital length of stay and cost of care. The purpose of this study was to determine if fat-free mass (FFM) and body fat (BF) differed between patients at hospital admission in Geneva and Berlin and healthy volunteers, and if there is a difference in the prevalence of low FFM (percentile P<10) and high...

the purpose of this study was to determine the effects of endurance training on inflammatory markers of cardiovascular diseases in old men. for this purpose, 20 male subjects voluntarily participated in this study. subjects were randomly assigned to two groups: endurance training (age=66.60+3.77 years, weight=76.20+4.07 kg, bmi=25.60+1.78 kg/m2, bf=24.65+2.88%) and control group (age=64.50+4.06...

The aim of the study was to determine the sensitivity and specificity of the BMI cut-off points that have been applied in the National Nutritional Survey in Japan (NNS-J) for young Japanese females. The relationship between the body mass index (BMI) and percentage body fat (%BF) of 139 young Japanese females (aged 18-27 years old) was examined using dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) and an...

Evidence for the association between breastfeeding (BF) duration and later body mass index (BMI) is inconsistent. We explored how BF type (exclusive or partial) related to BMI from childhood young adulthood in a Chilean cohort. Infants were recruited at 6 months 1994 1996 Santiago, Chile (n = 821). Mothers reported date of first bottle last BF; anthropometry was measured 1, 5, 10, 16, 23 years....

Background & objectives: Recently, fitness (bodyweight workout), kickboxing and TRX training have become very popular. The aim of the present study was to determine the effect of a period of fitness-kickboxing and fitness-TRX training on some anthropometric indices and cardiovascular risk factors in overweight women. Methods: Forty overweight women were randomly divided into three groups. The ...

BACKGROUND The adoption of primary prevention measures among young people has a favorable impact on the context of cardiovascular diseases. OBJECTIVE To assess blood pressure (BP) and cardiovascular risk variables among young adults stratified according to the body mass index (BMI) behavior obtained along 17 years, since childhood/adolescence (C/A). METHODS Three assessments were carried ou...