Obesity has been discussed as the main driver for pediatric hypertension during the last few decades.5,8,10,27 The prevalence of hypertension is currently approximately 3% in youths with normal weight, 5% in youths who are overweight, and nearly 10% in youths who have severe obesity.1 Although...
Female weanling rats received small (1 mAmp for 5 sec) electrolytic lesions in the paraventricular nuclei. Sham-operated rats served as controls. The rats were maintained for 42 days and body weight, linear growth, Lee Index, food intake and efficiency of food utilization were determined through...
Two studies compared the quinine aversion and shock thresholds of intact and gonadectomized female rats. Using food deprivation to modify body weight, the first study measured the reactivity of gonadectomized and intact rats at the same weight level and compared their behavior to a food deprived...
Why are female athletes and athletes AFAB at risk for low estrogen levels? Women and people AFAB with low body fat often do not make enough of the sex hormones. This can cause their periods to become irregular or stop. They may also develop osteoporosis -- thin bones -- and fractures. ...
Docteur A, Urdapilleta I, Defrance C, Raison J. Body perception and satisfaction in obese, severely obese, and normal weight female patients. Obesity (Silver Spring); 18(7): 1464-5, 2010Docteur, A., Urdapilleta, I., Defrance, C., Raison, J., 2010. Body perception and satisfaction in...
Temple D, Denis R, Walsh MC, Dicker P, Byrne AT. Comparison of anthropometric-based equations for estimation of body fat percentage is a normal-weight and overweight female cohort: validation via air-displacement plethysmography. Public Health Nutr 2015; 18: 446-52. doi: 10.1017/ S...
Body image and self-perception about weight, irrespective of their actual body mass index, may predispose young females to disordered eating beha viour. A study was conducted to determine body image disturbance, weight perception and body mass index among female college students in Delhi having ...
4 Department of Exercise Physiology, University of Isfahan, Isfahan 81746-73441, Iran 5 Cancer Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran 14167-53955, Iran 6 Department of Exercise Physiology, Islamic Azad University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz 61349-37333, Iran ...
At the same time, due to the influence of an assessed population, specific equations must be always used to predict the body composition [4] and must be also validated for chronic diseases common in the groups [5]. As the frequency of applying bioelectrical impedance is observed to be ...
4 Helen B. Taussig Heart Center, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA 5 Adult and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University of Naples “Federico II”, 80138 Naples, Italy * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. ...