Eight-Year Longitudinal Changes in Body Composition in Healthy Swiss Adults

Kyle, Ursula G.; Melzer, Katarina; Kayser, Bengt; Picard-Kossovsky, Michel; Gremion, Gérald; Pichard, Claude

doi:10.1080/07315724.2006.10719564

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“…The results, which corroborated previous studies [4,6,8,12,13,22,24], indicated a clear negative association between level of physical activity and weight, and waist circumference and BMI values, in both genders. The more active a person was, the lower the values of these parameters.…”

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Level of physical activity and anthropometric characteristics in old age—results from a national health survey

Dunsky

Zach

Zeev

et al. 2014

Eur Rev Aging Phys Act

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Advanced age is associated with degenerative changes in body composition. There is evidence suggesting that changes may vary upon differences in lifestyle, environment, or gender. Physical activity engagement is considered an important component of lifestyle definition. There are suggestions that engaging in physical activity might alleviate degenerative body compositional changes. The objective is to assess the relationship between adherence to recommended guidelines of physical activity and anthropometric parameters in Israeli older adults. Anthropometric measures, including height, weight, and waist circumference, were taken, and BMI was calculated, from a random sample of 1,663 elderly adults (799 men and 864 women), aged 74.31 (±6.05) years old. Participants reported their physical activity habits and, based on official guidelines recommendations, they were divided into sufficiently active, insufficiently active, and inactive groups. One-way ANOVA (level of physical activity) for both genders was conducted for each anthropometric variable. In both genders, an association between level of physical activity and weight, waist circumference, and BMI was found, with lower values among the sufficiently active. In addition, a relationship between level of physical activity and height was indicated among women, implying that the more active women were taller than the less active. In addition to the already known health benefits of physical activity in old age, it is possible that adherence to recommended guidelines of physical activity is associated with favorable anthropometric characteristics.

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“…A lifestyle factor known to be correlated with anthropometric parameters such as BMI, waist circumference, and weight is engagement in regular physical activity [4,6,8,12,13,22,24]. On the other hand, habitual physical activity is also known to be negatively correlated with some diseases [2,20].…”

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Level of physical activity and anthropometric characteristics in old age—results from a national health survey

Dunsky

Zach

Zeev

et al. 2014

Eur Rev Aging Phys Act

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“…In this study, no statistically signifi cant linear correlation of BMI and body fat distribution with age was recorded, which has been recorded in other studies (Kyle et al, 2006), but only a slight proportional tendency of these two parameters with the age of respondents. Such a result can be explained by the fact that this is a pilot study which involved only about a hundred women, with approximately 70% of women being up to the age of forty, while 27% were older female respondents.…”

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“…У овом истраживању није забележена ста-тистики значајна линеарна повезаност БМИ и заступњености масног ткива са годинама жи-вота, што се бележи у другим истраживањима (Kyle, et al, 2006), већ само блага пропорцио-нална тенденција ова два параметра са старошћу испитаница. Овакав резултат се може објаснити чињеницом да је ово пилот истраживање којим је обухваћено свега стотинак жена, при чему је при-ближно 70% жена било старости до четрдесет го-дина, а 27% су чиниле старије испитанице.…”

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Morphological model of the population of working-age women in Belgrade measured using electrical multichannel bioimpedance model: Pilot study

Djordjevic-Nikic¹,

Dopsaj²,

Rakic³

et al. 2013

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, фитнес скор 73.23±6.75 индексних бодова. Из добијених резултата може се закључити да актуелни морфолошки статус испитиваних жена делимично одговара нормално ухрањеном типу. БМИ и заступљеност телесних масти су имали готово граничне вредности, према гојазности. Забележен је врло висок проценат жена у категорији предгојазних и гојазних према БМИ (40%) и ПСМ (36%).Кључне речи: ТЕЛЕСНИ САСТАВ / БИОИМПЕДАНЦА / ЖЕНЕ / МАСНО ТКИВО / БМИ Коресподенција са: Mарина Ђорђевић-Никић, Универзитет у Београду, Факултет спорта и физичког васпитања, Београд, Благоја Паровића 156,

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“…Among those who gained weight at follow-up, the change in lean mass accounted for 32% of the weight change. 303 In another cohort of healthy volunteers 20 to 74 years old who were followed up for up to 3 years, almost half of the weight loss was because of loss in lean mass, and about half of the weight gain was attributed to change in lean mass. 304 Those relationships appeared to be independent of physical activity and age group.…”

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Assessing Adiposity

Cornier¹,

Després²,

Davis³

et al. 2011

Circulation

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T he prevalence of obesity in the United States and the world has risen to epidemic/pandemic proportions. This increase has occurred despite great efforts by healthcare providers and consumers alike to improve the health-related behaviors of the population and a tremendous push from the scientific community to better understand the pathophysiology of obesity. This epidemic is all the more concerning given the clear association between excess adiposity and adverse health consequences such as cardiovascular disease (CVD) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). The risks associated with overweight/obesity are primarily related to the deposition of adipose tissue, which leads to excess adiposity or body fatness. Furthermore, weight loss, specifically loss of body fat, is associated with improvement in obesity-related comorbidities. Before weight loss interventions can be recommended, however, patients must be assessed for their adiposity-related risk. Unfortunately, healthcare providers and systems have not done a good job of assessing for excess adiposity even in its simplest form, such as measuring body mass index (BMI). It is for these reasons that we must emphasize the importance of assessing adiposity in clinical practices. Although it can be argued that the entire population should be targeted as an important public health issue with a goal of prevention of weight gain and obesity, there are currently so many "at risk" individuals that simple strategies to identify and treat those individuals are necessary. We must identify those individuals at highest risk of comorbidities in order to identify those who might benefit the most from aggressive weight management.This scientific statement will first briefly review the epidemiology of obesity and its related comorbidities, supporting the need for improved assessment of adiposity in daily clinical practice. This will be followed by a discussion of some of the challenges and issues associated with assessing adiposity and then by a review of the methods available for assessing adiposity in adults. Finally, practical recommendations for the clinician in practice will be given with a goal of identifying more at-risk overweight/obese individuals.

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Eight-Year Longitudinal Changes in Body Composition in Healthy Swiss Adults

Cited by 34 publications

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Level of physical activity and anthropometric characteristics in old age—results from a national health survey

Level of physical activity and anthropometric characteristics in old age—results from a national health survey

Morphological model of the population of working-age women in Belgrade measured using electrical multichannel bioimpedance model: Pilot study

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