the purpose of this study was to examine the effect of aerobic training on levels of vascular and intracellular adhesion molecules in overweight middle-aged women. 20 sedentary obese women (mean+age: 46.1+6.88 years, bf%: 36.7+ 6.18, weight: 73.56+10 kg and bmi: 59.5+4.15 kg.m2) were selected and randomly divided into two groups. training program consisted of 50-60 min. running with an intensit...

BACKGROUND Body fat (BF) percentiles for German children and adolescents have recently been published. This study aims to evaluate the association between bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA)-derived BF and cardiovascular risk factors and to investigate whether BF is better suited than BMI in children and adolescents. METHODS Data of 3,327 children and adolescents (BMI > 90th percentile) we...

OBJECTIVE We aimed to assess the trends in body mass index (BMI) and body fat percentage (BF%) from the age of 13 to 17 years and to evaluate how sociodemographic and behavioural characteristics at the age of 13  impact changes in BMI and BF%. SETTING Porto, Portugal. PARTICIPANTS We evaluated 1451 adolescents in a community-based cohort. OUTCOME MEASURES BMI z-scores were calculated acco...

INTRODUCTION Overweight and obesity are risk factors to appearance of cardiovascular diseases and anthropometry is important as clinical tool for planning and health policymaking at population level. Thus, aim of this work was to compare the simple body fat percentage (%BF) obtained straight by bioeletric impedance (BIA) to the one obtained by the equation of Segal et al (1988), which uses the ...

The objective of the present study was to investigate the relationship between the indices of body size such as BMI, fat-free mass index (FFMI, FFM/height2), fat mass index (FMI, FM/height2), and body fat percentage (%BF), and physical activities assessed by the doubly-labelled water (DLW) method and an accelerometer in free-living Japanese adult women. We conducted a cross-sectional study in 1...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the present Chinese body mass index (BMI) criteria with body fat percentage (BF%) in determining obesity in Chinese population. METHODS A total of 4 907 subjects (age: 20-90 yrs) were enrolled in the baseline survey of a longitudinal epidemiological study, and 2 638 of them were reevaluated in 5.5 years later. The Chinese BMI and WHO BF% were used to define obesity, resp...

purpose adolescents are in increased risk for the development of obesity, while sport has been suggested as an effective means against adolescent obesity. the objectives of this study were to examine (a) the prevalence of overweightness/obesity, (b) the relationship between body mass index (bmi) and body fat percent (bf), and (c) the association between bmi, bf and physical fitness in adolescen...