• And finally, they repeated the analysis excluding obese and overweight adolescents "Due to the general assumption that individuals with higher levels of adiposity are more likely to underreport dietary intake," but the results did not change. (wakeup-world.com)
  • In our base model, unfit men and women had higher risk of premature mortality irrespective of levels of adiposity, compared with the normal weight-fit reference. (unit.no)
  • Central overweight and obesity were indicators for central fatness for both overweight boys and girls and for obese girls except in age group 6.5 ± 1 years. (who.int)
  • The panelists noted that comparing the findings among studies was somewhat difficult since the definitions of overweight and obesity in youth have varied over time and different studies focused on different indicators of adiposity. (peacefulplaygrounds.com)
  • The huge impact of excess adiposity and obesity in childhood on type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease risk in adulthood makes it even more essential to have accurate and practical methods for effective monitoring, prevention and management of adiposity, overweight and obesity in childhood. (easo.org)
  • Thus, my main research area has focused on improving the assessment of adiposity, overweight and obesity in childhood populations. (easo.org)
  • We found that milk and other dairy products are consistently found to be not associated, or inversely associated, with obesity and indicators of adiposity in children. (fabresearch.org)
  • This analysis investigated the independent association of BMI versus surrogate measures of central adiposity with all-cause mortality in individuals with type 2 diabetes. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Although BMI is often considered an indicator of body fatness, it can be a variably-valid surrogate measure of body fat because it measures excessive relative weight rather than excess fat. (hgrunowfoundation.org)
  • Common to many chronic diseases is obesity, caused by excess body fatness which may be stored around the centre of the body (central adiposity) or the hips and thighs (peripheral adiposity). (parliament.uk)
  • Sugars in a liquid form may induce less satiety than in a solid form [ 9 ] and may promote the over-consumption of energy, contributing to the development of obesity and excess adiposity, and associated comorbidities (e.g. metabolic syndrome and diabetes). (biomedcentral.com)
  • While it seems that excess adiposity is associated with poorer BC survival, there is uncertainty over whether weight changes reduce mortality. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Our results support the detrimental association of excess body fatness on the survival of women with BC. (ox.ac.uk)
  • However, there were NS differences between the low- and high-MF groups for adiposity indices, appetite measurements or gut peptides (peptide YY and ghrelin) either before or after the intervention. (cambridge.org)
  • The present review aimed to provide an overview of the totality of the evidence on the association between milk and other dairy products, and obesity and indicators of adiposity, in children. (fabresearch.org)
  • Because the AR reflects particular BMI patterns, it is a useful tool for the paediatrician to monitor the child's adiposity development and for researchers to investigate the different developmental patterns leading to overweight. (nature.com)
  • Since adiposity varies greatly in school-aged youth and the patterns of fat accumulation differ in males and females as they grow and develop, "normal" means a level of adiposity that is appropriate for the child's age and gender. (peacefulplaygrounds.com)
  • Weight status in early childhood is a poor predictor of adult adiposity status, and most obese adults were not obese as children. (nature.com)
  • BMI is a adiposity tracks from childhood into poor proxy for central fatness [ 4 ] as it is adulthood [ 5 ]. (who.int)
  • Conclusions: PA exceeding 2 METs is associated with lower adiposity in mid-childhood, whereas PA of 3 METs is required to benefit CRF. (uea.ac.uk)
  • His primary research has focused on the accurate assessment of childhood adiposity and the long-term consequences of childhood obesity, with a particular focus on ethnic minority groups. (easo.org)
  • Since joining St George's University I've worked closely with Professor Peter Whincup, who has spent decades working within the areas of childhood adiposity and cardio-metabolic health. (easo.org)
  • It is largely down to his mentorship and guidance that I have excelled within this area of obesity research, as it was Prof. Whincup who exposed me to the issues surrounding the assessment of childhood adiposity. (easo.org)
  • This inverse association is probably because the genetic variants that predict this body shape reflect body fatness during childhood and adolescence rather than during later adulthood, when it has been shown that an adipose body shape increases the risk of breast cancer and other cancer types. (who.int)
  • The ability of simple anthropometric add valuable comparative data to BMI techniques to correctly measure central data in assessment of central fatness in adiposity needs to be assessed because overweight and obese children. (who.int)
  • My main interests are in the relationships of physical activity, dietary factors, fitness, fatness, and metabolic syndrome to brain, cognition, and academic achievement among children and adolescents. (helsinki.fi)
  • No obesity paradox was observed with WHtR and especially ABSI, which predicted mortality risk associated with central adiposity better than WC. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The association between body fatness and mortality among breast cancer survivors: results from a prospective cohort study. (ox.ac.uk)
  • This study aimed to assess the association between body fatness and weight changes pre- and postdiagnosis and overall mortality and BC-specific mortality among BC survivors. (ox.ac.uk)
  • We examined the association between fitness‐fatness combinations and all‐cause mortality in models with progressively more conservative approaches for accounting for reverse causation, misclassification of body composition, and confounding. (unit.no)
  • ABSTRACT This cross-sectional study of 1283 healthy children (681 boys, 602 girls) aged 6-11 years tested the degree of correlation between waist circumference measurements and adiposity. (who.int)
  • However, degree of correlation between waist circum- studies on the efficacy of anthropometric ference measurements of a sample of techniques for identifying children with Egyptian schoolchildren with their adipo- high central adiposity are scare. (who.int)
  • The availability of a large biobank with blood and urine samples, the comprehensive database of responses to standardized lifestyle and dietary questionnaires, and refined measurements of adiposity from hundreds of women will be of great value for breast cancer research in this population over the next decades. (who.int)
  • Evidence linking body fatness to breast cancer (BC) prognosis is limited. (ox.ac.uk)
  • We first explored the associations between physical behaviors and total and regional adiposity. (humankinetics.com)
  • The CDC convened a panel of experts to evaluate the evidence for the beneficial effects of physical activity on a broad range of health outcomes and behaviors, including body fat content (adiposity) in school-aged youth, ages 6 to 18. (peacefulplaygrounds.com)
  • The objective of this study was to assess the association among sexual maturation (SM), overweight and central adiposity in children and adolescents. (bvsalud.org)
  • The European study titled, " Association between chocolate consumption and fatness in European adolescents ," found a higher chocolate consumption was associated with lower total and central fatness in European adolescents. (wakeup-world.com)
  • Higher chocolate consumption was associated with lower levels of total and central fatness, as estimated by BMI, body fat estimated from skinfolds and BIA, and waist circumference, regardless of potential confounders (P ≤ 0.01). (wakeup-world.com)
  • Routine evaluation of an expression of weight not adiposity [ 11 ] regional fat distribution on a wide scale and it provides no information on body fat requires methods that are simpler than distribution, so it can mask true obesity- dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA), related risk in children [ 3 ]. (who.int)
  • Adiposity has been associated with elevated risk of urinary incontinence in epidemiological studies, however, the strength of the association has differed between studies. (endourology.ph)
  • To conduct a systematic literature review and dose-response meta-analysis of prospective studies on adiposity and risk of urinary incontinence. (endourology.ph)
  • Reducing obesity is an important preventive measure for postmenopausal breast cancer, but the association between adiposity and breast cancer risk at premenopausal ages is less clear. (who.int)
  • So far, studies on body fatness and breast cancer risk have been undertaken mainly in Caucasian women, and there are indications that breast cancer may be different in women of African ethnicity. (who.int)
  • In consideration of these alterations in body composition, some older adults face increased health risks due to concomitant excessive fatness and decreased muscle mass, condition called sarcopenic obesity (SO, Chap. 8 ) [ 11 ]. (springer.com)
  • Methods and Results: Cardiorespiratory fitness was estimated as watts per kilogram from a submaximal bicycle test in 77 169 men and women from the UK Biobank cohort and combined with World Health Organization standard body mass index categories, yielding 9 unique fitness‐fatness combinations. (unit.no)
  • I have also published scientific articles on the associations of physical fitness, adiposity, and physical activity with arterial stiffness in children and adolescents. (helsinki.fi)
  • The report, however, did not specify the level of physical activity that is clearly associated with maintaining normal adiposity, or body fatness, over time. (peacefulplaygrounds.com)
  • Therefore, the influences of diet, body fatness, and physical activity on this disease need to be investigated directly in African women in Africa. (who.int)
  • It is not as direct a measure as BMI at any age, but because it involves the examination of several points during growth, and because it is identified at a time when adiposity level clearly change directions, this method provides information that can help us understand individual changes and the development of health risks. (nature.com)
  • This typical BMI pattern (low, followed by high body fatness level) is associated with metabolic diseases such as diabetes and coronary heart diseases. (nature.com)
  • therefore the overall level of adiposity is needed as a starting point. (bodybuilding.com)
  • Only nine of the ninety-four studies found a positive association between milk and other dairy products and body fatness. (fabresearch.org)
  • Study researcher Vinet Coetzee, a postdoctoral scientist at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, told LiveScience that fatness "is an obvious choice for a marker of immunity because of its strong association with health and immunity. (honeycolony.com)
  • We also formed fitness‐fatness combinations based on bioimpedance as a direct measure of body composition. (unit.no)
  • VPA was most beneficial for fitness and fatness, from a time-for-time perspective, but displacing any lower-for-higher intensity may be an important first-order public health strategy. (uea.ac.uk)
  • According to the Huffington Post , "The results revealed that fatness, as measured with facial adiposity, was linked to both antibody response and attractiveness, with pudgier men both having weaker immune systems and being seen as less appealing by the fertile women. (honeycolony.com)
  • Low body fatness before the AR suggests that an energy deficit had occurred at an early stage of growth. (nature.com)
  • There may be some plausible mechanisms underlying the effect of milk and other dairy products on adiposity that influence energy and fat balance, possibly through fat absorption, appetite or metabolic activity of gut microbiota. (fabresearch.org)
  • The adiposity rebound (AR) corresponds to the second rise in BMI curve that occurs between ages 5 and 7 years. (nature.com)