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Longitudinal association between food frequency and changes in body mass index: a prospective cohort study
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2020)
OBJECTIVES: Analysing data of the Young Lives Study in Peru, we aimed at assessing the association between daily food frequency and body mass index (BMI) changes between 2006 and 2016. DESIGN: Secondary analysis of a ...
Facial affective reactions to bitter-tasting foods and body mass index in adults
(Academic Press Ltd - Elsevier Science Ltd, 2013-01)
Differences in food consumption among body-weight statuses (e.g., higher fruit intake linked with lower body mass index (BMI) and energy-dense products with higher BMI) has raised the question of why people who are overweight ...
Association between the Increase in Body Mass Index and Medical Absenteeism in a Peruvian Mining Population
(NIOC Health Organization, 2018)
Background: Obesity and overweight are associated with work absenteeism of medical cause. However, there is little knowledge on the relationship between incremental body mass index (BMI) and absenteeism. Objective: To ...
Patterns of Body Composition Relating to Chronic Respiratory Diseases Among Adults in Four Resource-Poor Settings in Peru
(Springer, 2018)
PURPOSE: Body composition is known to influence the development and progression of chronic respiratory diseases (CRDs). We sought to characterize the unique anthropometric phenotypes that present with asthma, chronic ...
Size at birth, infant, early and later childhood growth and adult body composition: a prospective study in a stunted population
(Oxford University, 2007)
Background Pre-natal and post-natal growth are associated with adult body composition,
but the relative importance of growth in different periods of childhood is still
unclear, particularly in stunted populations.
Methods ...
Parental body mass index and blood pressure are associated with higher body mass index and blood pressure in their adult offspring: a cross-sectional study in a resource-limited setting in northern Peru
(Wiley, 2018)
OBJECTIVES: High body mass index (BMI) and blood pressure (BP) are major contributors to the high burden of non-communicable diseases in adulthood. Individual high-risk and population approaches for prevention require newer ...
Low Body Mass Index Is Associated with Higher Odds of COPD and Lower Lung Function in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
(Taylor and Francis, 2019)
The relationship of body mass index (BMI) with lung function and COPD has been previously described in several high-income settings. However, few studies have examined this relationship in resource-limited settings where ...
Exploring overweight and obesity beyond body mass index: A body composition analysis in people with and without patellofemoral pain
(2021-01-01)
Background: We compared body mass index (BMI), body fat, and skeletal muscle mass between (1) a mixed-sex nonathletic cohort of people with patellofemoral pain (PFP) and pain-free people, and (2) a nonathletic cohort of ...
Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults
(Springer Nature, 2019)
Body-mass index (BMI) has increased steadily in most countries in parallel with a rise in the proportion of the population who live in cities 1,2 . This has led to a widely reported view that urbanization is one of the ...