• Increased waist circumference and blood pressures, elevated triglycerides and low High-Density Lipoprotein were the most frequent features of MS. The DAS28 was significantly lower in the reevaluation (p = 0.006). (scirp.org)
  • ABSTRACT Studies have shown that cardiovascular risk factors, such as obesity, blood lipid levels, start early in childhood and some are on the rise in children. (who.int)
  • Overall the prevalence of obesity in Tehran children and adolescents increased significantly from 2000 to 2006 while blood pressure and serum lipid concentrations decreased. (who.int)
  • When used to predict an individual's health, rather than as a statistical measurement for groups, the BMI has limitations that can make it less useful than some of the alternatives, especially when applied to individuals with abdominal obesity, short stature, or high muscle mass. (wikipedia.org)
  • Results underscore the continuing need for public health measures to prevent obesity and to identify and treat hypertension and diabetes. (figshare.com)
  • An AHA scientific statement in 2016 said insufficient and poor-quality sleep, along with sleep disorders, are linked to a higher risk for heart disease as well as to several major heart disease risk factors, such as obesity, Type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure. (heart.org)
  • Those who got less than six hours of sleep a night scored lower for overall cardiovascular health and exhibited a higher prevalence of overweight and obesity, Type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure. (heart.org)
  • The study is the first to definitively link social relationships with concrete measures of physical wellbeing such as abdominal obesity, inflammation, and high blood pressure, all of which can lead to long-term health problems, including heart disease, stroke and cancer. (newswise.com)
  • He then advances the idea that it's an alteration in this body fat regulatory system that is behind obesity. (blogspot.com)
  • Across the board, people who bathed more often had lower body mass indexes (BMI), diastolic blood pressure, and glycated hemoglobin (a risk factor for type 2 diabetes). (inverse.com)
  • Cord blood markers of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, triglycerides, leptin, and adiponectin were used as child mediators. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Total indirect effects (effects of all mediators combined) for MetS on a child's COM and PSE domain were significant, through all child cord blood mediators of LDL, HDL, triglycerides, adiponectin, and leptin for adjusted models. (biomedcentral.com)
  • There was an increase of 15% of cases with MS in an 8-year follow-up cohort of patients, which was in agreement with the current literature and showed how the inflammatory process in RA is correlated to MS. The parameters of MS that varied the most were blood pressure, cholesterol and triglycerides. (scirp.org)
  • By not just addressing the symptoms (high cholesterol and high triglycerides) but the causes (e.g., eating saturated foods) of dyslipidemia (altered blood cholesterol levels), the problem is more likely to be resolved. (vitamedica.com)
  • The causes for the decreased blood pressure and serum lipid concentrations should be evaluated. (who.int)
  • Laboratory measures were fasting glucose, lipids, and salivary cortisol measures (morning and evening). (salimetrics.com)
  • Both groups demonstrated significantly (pCONCLUSION:A TRF protocol with an 8-hour eating window can improve markers of cardiometabolic health including body composition, blood pressure, lipids, and adiponectin without changing daily caloric intake. (wku.edu)
  • Lean male athletes often have a high muscle-to-fat ratio and therefore a BMI that is misleadingly high relative to their body-fat percentage. (wikipedia.org)
  • The data were analysed using linear regression analyses adjusted for age and sex and subsequently for body fat percentage (BF%) assessed by DXA. (frontiersin.org)
  • Past research suggests baths are also associated with a lower risk of dying from heart disease and stroke, along with having a lower body fat percentage. (inverse.com)
  • Regular physical activity reduces the risk of many adverse health outcomes and helps control the percentage of body fat in children and adolescents. (cdc.gov)
  • This includes collecting anthropometric data such as height, body mass, BMI, and body fat percentage (%BF) using standardized laboratory protocols. (who.int)
  • Body mass is measured using a specific scale, %BF is measured using bioelectrical impedance analysis, and height is measured with a wall-mounted stadiometer. (who.int)
  • Further independent research suggests that daily nutritional supplementation with 1,000 mcg of chromium as chromium picolinate can significantly decrease blood sugar levels in insulin-treated people with poorly-controlled type 2 diabetes. (nutraingredients-usa.com)
  • The study, presented last week at the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) Congress in Paris, France, found a daily supplement of 1,000 mcg chromium picolinate significantly decreased blood sugar levels in insulin-treated people with poorly-controlled type 2 diabetes. (nutraingredients-usa.com)
  • The study is the fourth trial to show the benefits of 1,000 mcg of chromium on blood sugar levels in people with insulin resistance and diabetes. (nutraingredients-usa.com)
  • The company currently has two large clinical trials underway to further evaluate the effects of 1,000 mcg of its own Chromax chromium picolinate on blood sugar levels in people with type 2 diabetes or metabolic syndrome. (nutraingredients-usa.com)
  • Wang and colleagues analyzed health information for 136,599 adults in the U.K. who did not have cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes, cancer or dementia when they enrolled in the study and as measured by the Life's Essential 8 tool. (worldhealth.net)
  • Scientists say that, in addition to relaxing us and getting us squeaking clean, baths may be a vital tool capable of staving off cardiovascular diseases like heart disease, high blood pressure, and type 2 diabetes. (inverse.com)
  • In a recent study, including 1,297 patients with type 2 diabetes, those who bathed more frequently had greater blood sugar control, lower blood pressure, and lower body mass indices. (inverse.com)
  • HOW THIS AFFECTS LONGEVITY - Researchers discover people with type 2 diabetes who bathe regularly have greater blood sugar control, lower blood pressure, and lower BMIs. (inverse.com)
  • All adverse clinical outcomes measured in the study occurred more frequently among heart patients with diabetes compared to those without diabetes. (escardio.org)
  • Everyone can lower their chances of developing diabetes with weight control and exercise, and early detection is needed so that blood sugar can be controlled. (escardio.org)
  • Children with symptomatic hypertension, secondary hypertension, target organ damage, diabetes, or persistent hypertension despite nonpharmacologic measures should be treated with antihypertensive medications. (aafp.org)
  • Carotid in-tima-media thickness (CIMT) measured by ultrasound is a marker of atherosclerosis and can predict future cardiovascular events.The aim of this study was to measure the CIMT in paediatric type 1 diabetes patients in Ibadan and Lagos and compare results with the CIMT of non-diabetic healthy control children. (bvsalud.org)
  • Without some quantitative approach to gauging their importance, in terms of likely impact, there is greater likelihood of policy being driven exclusively by factors such as pressure groups or the emotive weight of individual cases. (who.int)
  • As your weight increases, so does your blood pressure. (selfgrowth.com)
  • Insulin levels may build up in the body and can cause weight gain. (livescience.com)
  • B M I = mass kg height m 2 = mass lb height in 2 × 703 {\displaystyle \mathrm {BMI} ={\frac {{\text{mass}}_{\text{kg}}}{{{\text{height}}_{\text{m}}}^{2}}}={\frac {{\text{mass}}_{\text{lb}}}{{{\text{height}}_{\text{in}}}^{2}}}\times 703} BMI provides a simple numeric measure of a person's thickness or thinness, allowing health professionals to discuss weight problems more objectively with their patients. (wikipedia.org)
  • A common use of the BMI is to assess how far an individual's body weight departs from what is normal for a person's height. (wikipedia.org)
  • The weight excess or deficiency may, in part, be accounted for by body fat (adipose tissue) although other factors such as muscularity also affect BMI significantly (see discussion below and overweight). (wikipedia.org)
  • For many in the study sample, however, losing a 'clinically significant' 5% of their body weight did not eliminate their risk factors for cardiovascular disease, results showed. (news-medical.net)
  • The study is the first to compare weight-loss strategies and results in the context of the American Heart Association's 'Life's Essential 8,' a checklist promoting heart disease risk reduction through the pursuit of recommended metrics for body weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar, smoking, physical activity, diet and sleep. (news-medical.net)
  • Within the sample, 17,465 individuals had lost less than 5% of their body weight, maintained their weight or gained weight in the past year. (news-medical.net)
  • The other 2,840 reported intentional loss of at least 5% of their body weight in the same time frame. (news-medical.net)
  • People should feel hopeful in knowing that losing just 5% of their body weight is meaningful in terms of clinical improvements. (news-medical.net)
  • On the other hand, the weight-loss group also had a higher average BMI and HbA1c blood sugar measure and fewer hours of sleep - all metrics that would bring down their composite Life's Essential 8 score. (news-medical.net)
  • Visitors at MD&M West will be able to view health-monitoring kiosks designed and produced by Astro, which measure blood pressure, weight, body mass, pulse, and blood oxygen in a retail environment. (mddionline.com)
  • Our findings regarding recruits' excess weight have important implications, especially when superimposed upon expected future effects of aging and career span," said lead author Antonios Tsismenakis, BS, MA, a second-year medical student at BUSM. (science20.com)
  • All children with prehypertension or hypertension should make therapeutic lifestyle changes to lower blood pressure, including losing weight if overweight, consuming a healthy diet low in sodium, getting regular physical activity, and avoiding tobacco and alcohol use. (aafp.org)
  • This study uses a cohort sample of 12,644 to 13,832 mother-child pairs from the UK Born in Bradford Study to examine the associations between maternal metabolic syndrome classification (MetS) and child development outcomes at age 5, using cord blood markers as candidate mediators. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), Boston Medical Center, Harvard University and the Cambridge Health Alliance found that more than 75 percent of emergency responder candidates for fire and ambulance services in Massachusetts are either overweight or obese. (science20.com)
  • These findings are strong evidence against the common misconception in the emergency responder community that many of their members have BMI's in the overweight and obese ranges simply on the basis of increased muscle mass. (science20.com)
  • He cited the research of Drs. Jules Hirsch and Rudy Leibel, various underfeeding and overfeeding studies, lipectomy studies, and evidence from genetically obese rodents, to demonstrate that body fatness is biologically regulated rather than being the passive result of voluntary food intake and exercise behaviors. (blogspot.com)
  • Conclusions A better organisation of a primary care practice was associated with better scores on process indicators of CVRM in CHD patients, but not on intermediate patient outcome measures. (bmj.com)
  • Conclusions: Tobacco smoking and high blood pressure are the two major risk factors for adult mortality from non- communicable diseases and injuries in Japan. (who.int)
  • After six months, the average elevated glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) - a marker of long-term blood sugar control levels - in the 1,000 mcg chromium treated group showed a statistically significant improvement - a decrease from 9.5 per cent to 9.0 per cent, reported the team. (nutraingredients-usa.com)
  • Fewer than 30% with abnormal blood lipid or glucose levels had follow-up management plans recorded. (frontiersin.org)
  • MetS predicted individual cord blood mediators of lower HDL and increased leptin levels in both adjusted and unadjusted models. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Avoiding smoking is crucial, as is controlling blood pressure and cholesterol levels. (escardio.org)
  • Overall practice organisation was not found to be related with recorded blood pressure or cholesterol levels. (bmj.com)
  • The EDNs were assessed by measuring the expression of two dopaminergic neuronal markers, dopamine transporter (DAT) and tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), at the transcriptional and protein levels. (bvsalud.org)
  • The American Heart Association (AHA) offers some tips for protecting that most critical organ while hormone levels and body composition change. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Blood tests can be done to check hormone levels. (medlineplus.gov)
  • First, cardiovascular disease and musculoskeletal injury are important causes of morbidity and mortality in emergency responders, and excess body fat is associated with higher risk for both. (science20.com)
  • In recent decades, cancer mortality attributable to tobacco smoking has increased in the elderly, while stroke mortality attributable to high blood pressure has declined. (who.int)
  • The Ohio State University researchers found that overall, U.S. adults had an average score of 60 out of 100 on the eight measures - suggesting there is plenty of room for improvement even among those whose diet and exercise behaviors helped move the needle on some metrics. (news-medical.net)
  • The preliminary findings , presented Thursday at the American Heart Association's Epidemiology and Prevention/Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Health Scientific Sessions in Phoenix, recommend changing the AHA's Life's Simple 7 measure of cardiovascular health to the "Simple 8 or Essential 8" to incorporate sleep metrics. (heart.org)
  • Adding these and other sleep metrics to participants' other measures of heart health made their cardiovascular health scores more predictive of cardiovascular disease risk than using the traditional seven metrics alone, Makarem said. (heart.org)
  • These results suggest potential benefit in setting baseline capacity for network inclusion and developing regional metrics for measuring network impact, but also beyond national health security capacities, other effects that may be required to justify continued support for regional laboratory networks. (cdc.gov)
  • This report provides the first nationally representative data on core, upper body, and lower body measures of muscle strength among U.S. children and adolescents aged 6-15 years by sex and age group. (cdc.gov)
  • A more recent article on high blood pressure in children and adolescents is available. (aafp.org)
  • High blood pressure in children and adolescents is a growing health problem that is often overlooked by physicians. (aafp.org)
  • Normal blood pressure values for children and adolescents are based on age, sex, and height, and are available in standardized tables. (aafp.org)
  • After adjusting for maternal, child, and environmental covariates, maternal metabolic syndrome classification during pregnancy was associated with children's LIT domain through direct effects of maternal metabolic health and indirect effects of cord blood markers (total effects), and COM and PSE domains via changes only in a child's cord blood markers (total indirect effects). (biomedcentral.com)
  • I'd like to begin by emphasizing that carbohydrate restriction has helped many people lose body fat and improve their metabolic health. (blogspot.com)
  • The main outcome measure was the proportion of eligible adults who had CVRA recorded. (frontiersin.org)
  • Main outcome measure We performed an audit in primary care practices in 10 European countries. (bmj.com)
  • There were no statistically significant differences identified for any of the secondary outcome measures. (springer.com)
  • All measures of cardiovascular health and health-related quality of life were self-reported. (cdc.gov)
  • Two studies found that adults who live a heart-healthy lifestyle - and who scored higher when measured by the American Heart Association's Life's Essential 8 cardiovascular health scoring - tend to live longer and in optimal health compared to those with low cardiovascular health scores. (worldhealth.net)
  • Two new studies by related research groups have found that adults who live a heart-healthy lifestyle, as measured by the American Heart Association's Life's Essential 8 (LE8) cardiovascular health scoring, tend to live longer lives free of chronic disease. (worldhealth.net)
  • Participants completed a validated personality assessment measuring neuroticism and indicated whether they thought they were in excellent, good, fair, or poor health overall. (psychologicalscience.org)
  • A computerized report provides feedback on your current health measures and health practices. (duke.edu)
  • Despite this importance, unlike diet and exercise, sleep has received less attention and is not currently included in guidelines for cardiovascular disease prevention or as a measure of cardiovascular health. (heart.org)
  • Nevertheless, cardiorespiratory fitness has been found to have weak if any associations with traditional cardiovascular disease risk factors, such as insulin resistance, dyslipidaemia, and blood pressure in children ( 7 - 10 ), leaving a knowledge gap on how cardiorespiratory fitness could contribute to cardiovascular health in a general population of children. (frontiersin.org)
  • If investigations are required (e.g. blood tests), your GP should be able to arrange these, as your cardiovascular health is not just important for diving. (ddrc.org)
  • Previous research shows improvements in body composition and some markers of cardiometabolic health, but it is not clear if these results were due to the decreased eating window, or due to a decrease in caloric intake that typically occurs with fasting protocols. (wku.edu)
  • to assess whether a caloric deficit is necessary to achieve improvements in cardiometabolic health as well as evaluate the impact TRF has on blood markers of oxidative stress. (wku.edu)
  • Objective: To determine the prevalence of risk factors for OSAS in Dentistry teachers, through symptomatic questionnaire, the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) and anthropometric measures. (bvsalud.org)
  • BMI was designed to be used as a simple means of classifying average sedentary (physically inactive) populations, with an average body composition. (wikipedia.org)
  • Body composition tends to shift to lower muscle mass. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Blood glucose was determined in the laboratory using the glucose oxidase method. (bvsalud.org)
  • If you have been diagnosed with high cholesterol on routine blood tests you may be controlling it with dietary measures, or you may be taking medication. (ddrc.org)
  • Multiple regression analyses showed that both BMI and RHR were significantly associated with glucose and mean arterial pressure. (nih.gov)
  • Il vise à déterminer et comparer la prévalence du surpoids et des facteurs de risque associés chez 2 555, 1 329 et 1 158 enfants et adolescents de Téhéran en 2000, 2003 et 2006 respectivement. (who.int)
  • Although the exact cause of PCOS is unknown, insulin resistance - the body's inability to effectively use insulin, a hormone that regulates blood sugar - is thought to play a prominent role. (livescience.com)
  • METHODS: The response of cardiac vagal tone to respiratory modulation was measured in 18 serologically positive Lyme disease patients and in 18 controls. (canlyme.com)
  • Carotid ultrasound was performed and CIMT measured in 70 subjects (35 diabetic patients and 35 non-diabetic controls matched for age and sex). (bvsalud.org)
  • The mean (standard deviation) blood glucose of all the study subjects was 5.19 (2.05) mmol/L (median 4.9 mmol/L). Twenty-four patients (5.6) were hypoglycaemic. (bvsalud.org)
  • Too much body fat in the stomach area also increases disease risk. (selfgrowth.com)
  • Being physically active is one of the most important things you can do to prevent or control high blood pressure, and then also, reduces your risk of heart disease. (selfgrowth.com)
  • Measures of predicted coronary heart disease risk (CHD) were also developed. (cdc.gov)
  • information on changes in cardiovas- recorded at the highest point of the hip cular risk factors in children and ado- with a meter measuring tape. (who.int)
  • A venous blood sample was taken of a set of risk factors for cardiovascular This study was conducted as a part of from each subject in a sitting position disease [3]. (who.int)
  • Ultrasound assessment of the carotid artery was performed, and carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT) and total plaque area (TPA) were measured. (bmj.com)
  • To figure that out, Thomas and his colleagues measured the amount of calcium deposited in the coronary arteries of more than 700 Tsimanes between age 40 and 94. (npr.org)
  • The researchers also took blood samples and medical histories documenting the group's history of heart attack and stroke. (inverse.com)
  • Other researchers suggest bathing increases blood circulation, body temperature, and the production of nitric oxide in the body, which appear to confer the positive benefits. (inverse.com)
  • The researchers reviewed the pre-placement medical examinations of firefighter and ambulance recruits from two Massachusetts clinics between October 2004 and June 2007. (science20.com)
  • SNIP measures contextual citation impact by wighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field. (elsevier.es)
  • The positional variability of MA effects on EDNs paralleled the positional variability of its effect on intestinal motility, as evidenced by the marked inhibitory effect of MA on small intestinal motility (p (bvsalud.org)
  • This study found significant effects of MA on EDNs with locational variability, which might be relevant to locational variability in the potential effects of MA on intestinal functions, such as motility. (bvsalud.org)
  • To lose 10 pounds can lower your blood pressure. (selfgrowth.com)
  • There were no significant differences by sex in core, lower, or upper body measures of strength for younger boys and girls. (cdc.gov)
  • Adolescent boys and girls had higher scores than younger boys and girls on the core and lower body strength measures and upper body strength as measured by the grip strength test. (cdc.gov)
  • Cardiorespiratory fitness was assessed by a maximal exercise test on a cycle ergometer and quantified as maximal power output normalised for lean body mass assessed by dual-energy X-ray absorbtiometry. (frontiersin.org)