Objetivo. El análisis de la composición corporal constituye una parte fundamental en la evaluación del estado nutricional. El objetivo de este estudio fue establecer percentiles de grasa corporal por bioimpedancia eléctrica en niños y adolescentes de Bogotá, Colombia, pertenecientes al estudio FUPR...
INTRODUCTION: Currently, cardiovascular risk factors have not been studied so extensively in young people. OBJECTIVE: To compare the cardiovascular risk factor between Colombian and Mexican children. PATIENTS AND METHODS: This was a transversal, descriptive, comparative and clinical study. 30 children of...
BACKGROUND: In the last decades, overweight and obesity have been transformed from minor public health issues to a major threat to public health affecting the most affluent societies and also the less developed ones. OBJECTIVES: To estimate overweight-obesity prevalence in adults, their association with ...
New data are presented on the relationship between eating disorders in adolescence and physical self-concept. The degree to which age, engagement in sports activities, and body mass index present a risk in the development of eating disorders is analyzed. The study population was comprised of 740 adolesce...
The purpose of the present study was: 1) to relate the Hoover sign -SH (+)- with several functional (spirometry and lung volumes) and radiographic (AP x-ray) parameters, 2) to characterize the changes in diaphragmatic curvature radius and the efficiency and to establish some relationships with the functi...
