Bolados, Cristian Cofre Ferrari, Gerson Suárez-Reyes, Mónica Quintiliano Scarpelli Dourado, Daiana Diaz-Peña, Helen Pizarro, Tito
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International journal of environmental research and public health
The aim of this study was to analyze the relationship between muscular strength from upper and lower limbs with self-esteem among Chilean schoolchildren, drawing independent associations with body composition indicators. The sample consisted of 1078 schoolchildren. The muscular strength of the upper and lower limbs was evaluated using a digital dyn...
Cornell, David J. Noel, Sabrina E. Zhang, Xiyuan Ebersole, Kyle T.
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Firefighters have a sustained risk for experiencing a sudden cardiac event after completing a fire call. Heart rate recovery (HRR) can be utilized to characterize autonomic nervous system (ANS) recovery and has been linked to cardiac events. Research suggests that body composition influences post-exercise HRR responses in non-firefighter population...
Hartmann, Ygraine de Cássia C. de A. Akutsu, Rita Zandonadi, Renata Puppin Raposo, António B. A. Botelho, Raquel
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
In Brazilian universities, the university restaurant (UR) is essential in supporting students to complete their courses, as the UR offers free or low-cost food. In this sense, this research aimed to evaluate public policy effectiveness in offering food to low-income students attending the UR of the University of Brasília. This cross-sectional study...
Xu, Yin Hiyoshi, Ayako Brand, Judith S Smith, Kelsi A Bahmanyar, Shahram Alfredsson, Lars Olsson, Tomas Montgomery, Scott
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Multiple sclerosis (Houndmills, Basingstoke, England)
Evidence for the association between body mass index (BMI) and multiple sclerosis (MS) among men remains mixed. Swedish military conscription and other registers identified MS after age of 20 years and BMI at ages 16-20 years (N = 744,548). Each unit (kg/m2) BMI increase was associated with greater MS risk (hazard ratio and 95% confidence interval ...
Torres, Chioma Brophy-Herb, Holly E McCaffery, Harlan Struza, Julie Williams, Jessica M Choi, Hailey Hyunjin Horodynski, Mildred A Contreras, Dawn Kerver, Jean Kaciroti, Niko
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Academic pediatrics
Parental mindfulness may be a novel intervention target for child obesity prevention. To examine associations between maternal mindfulness and child body mass index z-score (BMIz). In a secondary data analysis of preintervention data from a randomized controlled trial, we assessed survey and anthropometric data from English-speaking mother/child dy...
Beagle, Alexander J Tison, Geoffrey H Aschbacher, Kirstin Olgin, Jeffrey E Marcus, Gregory M Pletcher, Mark J
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JMIR mHealth and uHealth
Background Commercially acquired wearable activity trackers such as the Fitbit provide objective, accurate measurements of physically active time and step counts, but it is unclear whether these measurements are more clinically meaningful than self-reported physical activity. Objective The aim of this study was to compare self-reported physical act...
Prakash, Om Hossain, Fokhrul Danos, Denise Lassak, Adam Scribner, Richard Miele, Lucio
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Frontiers in Public Health
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive subtype of breast cancer that lacks expression of the estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), and human epidermal growth factor receptor (HER2). TNBC constitutes about 15–30 percent of all diagnosed invasive breast cancer cases in the United States. African-American (AA) women have h...
Youk, Tae Mi Kang, Min Jin Song, Sun Ok Park, Eun-Cheol
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BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care
Introduction To examine how the risk of cardiovascular disease changes according to degree of change in body mass index (BMI) and low-density lipoprotein (LDL)-cholesterol in patients with diabetes using the health medical examination cohort database of the National Health Insurance Service in Korea. In comparison, the pattern in a non-diabetic con...
Kiesel, Ludwig Eichbaum, Christine Baumeier, Ariane Eichbaum, Michael
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Cancers
Simple Summary Endometrial cancer is the most frequent gynecologic tumor in developed countries. Obesity is an established risk factor for this disease. This work provides an overview of pathophysiological interactions and pathways in obese women initiating tumorigenesis. Furthermore, the clinical impact of adiposity on the treatment of endometrial...
Inoue, Kosuke Goto, Atsushi Sugiyama, Takehiro Ramlau-Hansen, Cecilia Høst Liew, Zeyan
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Toxics
Confounding adjustment is important for observational studies to derive valid effect estimates for inference. Despite the theoretical advancement of confounding selection procedure, it is often challenging to distinguish between confounders and mediators due to the lack of information about the time-ordering and latency of each variable in the data...
