Anthropometric determinants of risk factors in an African American population

Article Abstract:

Association of biological markers in a group of African-Americans has been studied. Findings indicate that waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) is the best indicator for biological marker variance, including cholesterol and ApoB levels for females. Females are more likely by a factor of four to be obese than males and twice as likely as European-Americans to be obese. Among factors studied were HDL and LDL, cholesterol, triglycerides, ApoA-1 and ApoB. They were related to conicity index, WHR, BMI, and bioelectrical impedance analysis and estimates of body composition.

Usage, Measurement, Risk factors, Demographic aspects, African Americans, Obesity, Risk factors (Health), Anthropometry, Cholesterol, Health status indicators, Body, Human, Human body

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Body composition in Central Asia populations: fat patterning variation in the Kazakhs of the Tien Shan Mountains and the Uighurs of Semericia

Article Abstract:

Eleven anthropometric fat patterning variables have been studied in healthy unrelated males aged 19-65 in two populations of Central Asia. Uighurs have higher values than Kazakhs for the characteristics related to fat, with factors related to age taken into account. Principal components analysis indicates that a similar somatic structure may exist in the two groups. Stress, likely related to nutrition and lifestyle in a mountain environment, may account for more adipose tissue in the Kazakhs. The Uighurs live on the plains.

Health aspects, Methods, Physiological aspects, Environmental aspects, Asia, Adaptation (Physiology), Physiological adaptation, Life style, Lifestyles, Uighurs, Adipose tissues, Adipose tissue, Central Asia, Environmental health, Physiology, Comparative, Comparative physiology, Human ecology, Altitude, Influence of, Mountain life, Physiology, Kazakhs

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Critical appraisal of the estimation of body composition via two-, three-, and four-compartment models

Article Abstract:

Hydrodensitometry was used in the early 1900s to quantify bodyfat through underwater weighing. It was refined in the early 1940s to determine density, which led to the two-compartment model of body composition. This separates the body into fat mass (FM) and fat-free mass (FFM). In the 1950s this developed into the three-compartment model of FM, total body water (TBW) and fat-free dry solid. Later a four-compartment model of FM, TBW, bone mineral mass and residual, was developed.

Human biology

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