Contexto: las enfermedades crónicas no transmisibles revisten interés para la salud pública; algunas de ellas pueden detectarse y predecirse mediante estudios básicos como es la antropometría. El índice de masa corporal (IMC) valora, estratifica y clasifica el nivel de sobrepeso del individuo como ...
ABSTRACT Objective: Recently, a new obesity index (A Body Shape Index, ABSI) based on waist circumference (WC) was developed, and high ABSI corresponds to a more central concentration of body volume. It is well known that central obesity is closely linked with insulin resistance (IR). Therefore, our stu...
Pueblo Asiatico,
Glucemia/análisis,
Índice de Masa Corporal,
Tamaño Corporal/etnología,
Tamaño Corporal/fisiología,
China,
Estudios Transversales,
Homeostasis/fisiología,
Resistencia a la Insulina/etnología,
Resistencia a la Insulina/fisiología,
Estándares de Referencia,
Valores de Referencia,
Factores de Riesgo,
Sensibilidad y Especificidad,
Estadísticas no Paramétricas,
Somatotipos
ABSTRACT Introduction: Chronic Kidney disease (CKD) patients have a high prevalence of cardiovascular mortality, and among the risk factors are dyslipidemia and obesity, common findings in the early stages of CKD. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of low protein diet (LPD) on the lipid a...
ABSTRACT A new monotypic genus and species of predaceous midge from the southernmost area of the Argentinean Yungas, Yungahelea australis Spinelli and Ronderos, is described and illustrated from male and female adults. It belongs to a group containing the Ceratopogonini genera Parabezzia Malloch, Diaphan...
ABSTRACT Objective: To explore the relationships among early life factors (ie maternal weight, height and body mass index, child's birthweight, birth length and ponderal index) and body composition in peripubertal Jamaican children. Methods: One hundred and seventy-six healthy Jamaican children, 9-12 y...
ABSTRACT Objective Adipokines are mediators of body composition and are involved in obesity complications. This study aimed to assess the association of circulating omentin-1, vaspin, and RBP-4 with body composition indices and metabolic health status (MHS) in different phenotypes of body size. Subjec...
Composición Corporal,
Índice de Masa Corporal,
Tamaño Corporal,
Estudios Transversales,
Citocinas/sangre,
Ensayo de Inmunoadsorción Enzimática,
Proteínas Ligadas a GPI/sangre,
Lectinas/sangre,
Obesidad/sangre,
Obesidad/metabolismo,
Fenotipo,
Proteínas Plasmáticas de Unión al Retinol/análisis,
Serpinas/sangre
Abstract Variations of age and total length of Sotalia guianensis from the state of Espírito Santo, Brazil, were evaluated. Specimens were found stranded. Age and total length of 44 Guiana dolphins were assessed based on tooth analysis. Age varied between 0.5 year and 33 years (mean = 8.23 years). Most ...
ABSTRACT The present study describes Tereancistrum flabellum n. sp. (Dactylogyridae, Ancyrocephalinae) from the gills of the anostomid fishes Leporinus friderici, Leporinus amblyrhynchus and Leporinus elongatus from two freshwater ecosystems in the south east of Brazil. This new species is mainly charact...
ABSTRACT Clupeomorphs are found in many assemblages of the northeastern Brazil, whose ages range from the Neocomian to Paleogene. Ten species were described. Among them †Scutatuspinosus itapagipensis, a torpedo-like fish found in shales of the Marfim Formation from Bahia, remains poorly known. At f...
