body fatness
Body fatness during childhood and adolescence and breast density in young women: a prospective analysis
... adolescent body fatness and breast density and cancer risk could include hormonal ...43]. Body fatness during childhood and adolescence could decrease breast cancer risk via effects on ovarian ...
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Direction of the association between body fatness and self-reported screen time in Dutch adolescents
... to the findings of Ekelund et al [27] in adults. One expla- nation for these contrasting results could be the follow- up duration in the study of Ekelund et al [27] was 5.6 years, whereas in our study this was 1 year. ...
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The Utility of Body Mass Index as a Measure of Body Fatness in Children and Adolescents: Differences by Race and Gender
... of body weight as ...relative fatness with increasing age is not known precisely but may occur in the late teenage or early young adult ...of fatness in girls and boys or in black and white ...in ...
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Body fatness and physical activity at young ages and the risk of breast cancer in premenopausal women
... Obesity in adulthood has been related to a decreased risk of premenopausal breast cancer, but data on the relationship with body fatness in childhood and adolescence are limited (IARC, 2002; Okasha et al, ...
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Relationship between some indicators of reproductive history, body fatness and the menopausal transition in Hungarian women
... The body fat fraction was estimated by bioelectrical impedance analysis. Body fatness was also estimated by dividing women into obese and non-obese categories (considering body mass index and ...
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Associations between accelerometer-measured physical activity and body fatness in school-aged children
... on body fatness in children and adolescents [20, ...and body fatness, there are also studies that report no differences between girls and boys [26, ...excess body fatness than ...
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Improvements of Nutrition Behavior Fitness and Body Fatness with a Short Term after School Intervention Program
... Many intervention programs promoting physical activ- ity and healthy diet have been demonstrated to be effec- tive in several countries [24,26,31-33]. Most interven- tions showed improvement in health knowledge and ...
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The Validity of BMI as an Indicator of Body Fatness and Risk Among Children
... excess body fatness at all ages, a sin- gle cut point is unlikely to be ...in body fatness that occur during growth and develop- ment and for age differences (interac- tions) in the relation ...
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<p>Classification Accuracy of Body Mass Index for Excessive Body Fatness in Kuwaiti Adolescent Girls and Young Adult Women</p>
... of body fatness was ...measuring body fatness at present are the multicom- ponent models 29 but these are not practical for fi eld studies such as the present ...measuring body fat, the ...
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The Validity of BMI as an Indicator of Body Fatness and Risk Among Children
... excess body fatness has frequently been summarized by calculating the (1) sensitivity (propor- tion of children with excess body fat- ness who have a high BMI), (2) positive predictive value ...
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Do Skinfold Measurements Provide Additional Information to Body Mass Index in the Assessment of Body Fatness Among Children and Adolescents?
... Skinfold measurements have been widely used to assess body composition in the past. They are simpler and less expensive than hydrostatic weighing or other laboratory-based techniques for body composition ...
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The evolution of body fatness: trading off disease and predation risk
... changing body weight of humans, reflecting changes in lifestyle and behaviour, led to the suggestion that there may be no active regulation of body weight/adiposity (Wirtshafter and Davis, 1977; Payne and ...
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Relationships between media use, body fatness and physical activity in children and youth: A meta-analysis
... 11. Obarzanek E, Schreiber GB, Crawford PB, Goldman SR, Barrier PM, Frederick MM, et al. Energy intake and physical activity in relation to indexes of body fat: the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Growth ...
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Calcium Intake in Relation to Body Mass Index and Fatness in Thai School Aged Children
... Body weight was measured using a digital weighing scale (Seca Model 882, GmbH & Co., Hamburg, Germany) to the nearest 0.1 kg. Standing height was measured with a stadiometer (Microtoise, Stanley-Mabo ® , ...
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Exploring the relationship between body mass index and skinfold thickness in children and adolescents
... overall body fatness, dependent upon the sex and age of the subject (Lohman, ...the body (McArdle et ...about body fat and its ...relative fatness, while the second requires the ...
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ACE I/D genotype, adiposity, and blood pressure in children
... and body fatness (normal fat or overfat as pre- viously defined) on BP, four groups were created: ACE II genotype and normal fat, ACE II and overfat, ACE D carri- ers and normalfat, and ACE D carriers and ...
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Study of obesity and hypertension in adolescents and their relationship with anthropometric indices
... measuring body fatness, waist circumference to height ratio should be used more as it not only detects central obesity and related adverse cardio-metabolic risk among normal weight children, but also ...
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Does adherence to the WCRF/AICR cancer prevention guidelines reduce risk of colorectal cancer in the UK Women’s Cohort Study?
... 52 53 The aim of this study is to assess whether adherence to the WCRF/AICR cancer prevention 54 recommendations released in 2007, related to body fatness, physical activity, nutrition a[r] ...
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Low fatness, reduced fat intake and adequate plasmatic concentrations of LDL-cholesterol are associated with high bone mineral density in women: a cross-sectional study with control group
... Results: The mean age was 50.9 (8.3) years. There was no significant difference between groups in relation to PA, smoking, intake of calcium and vitamin D, as well as laboratory tests, except serum C-telopeptide of type ...
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Validation of simple epidemiological or clinical methods for the measurement of body composition in young children
... in body fatness (%) between measures derived from TBW and DXA, BODPOD, and skinfold thickness, are shown in Figures 1-3 ...mean fatness of ...of body fatness were not statistically ...
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