Risk of obesity in relation to physical activity tracking from youth to adulthood

Article Abstract:

A study evaluates how physical activity patterns from youth to adulthood are associated with body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC). Maintaining a high level of physical activity from youth to adulthood is independently associated with lower risk of abdominal obesity in women, but not among men, which suggests that changes in physical activity patterns during the lifetime might contribute to the development of abdominal obesity in women.

Body mass index

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Physical activity patterns and obesity in Hispanic and non-Hispanic white women

Article Abstract:

Physical activity patterns of Hispanic and non-Hispanic white women living in the southwestern US and the effects of these on obesity is studied using population-based controls. The findings show that prevalence of obesity is greater among Hispanic than non-Hispanic women and hence interventions to increase physical activity among them are needed to address the problems of inactivity and obesity.

Hispanic American women

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Anthropometry and bioelectrical impedance inconsistently predicts fatness in women with regional adiposity

Article Abstract:

Anthropometric estimates and some bioelectrical regression equations can accurately predict percentage body fat in lower body fat shapely women but not in women with mainly abdominal body fat patterns. Researchers insist that body fat measurements fail to account for the wide range of fat patterning among women.

Research, Anthropometry

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