Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a very disabling disease. Pathologically, it is characterized by
the presence of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain that results in …

Methods: We studied 208 obese adolescents between the ages of 13 to 18 years from junior
and senior high schools who living in rural dan urban areas in East Java. These obese …

Neck circumference (NC) is an attractive method for determining overweight and obesity in
school age children because it is inexpensive and culturally acceptable. However, this …

Achondroplasia is a rare skeletal dysplasia characterized by rhizomelic short stature, whose
prevalence is about 1 per 25,000 births. For some patients with achondroplasia, excess …

Background: Dysfunction of body tissues due to excessive food consumption is often
referred to obesity. Excess storage of visceral fat can develop insulin resistance. Insulin …

The study aims to describe anthropometric data of Greenlandic preschool children, blood
pressure (BP) measures and effects of maternal smoking during pregnancy in a follow-up of …

Aim The objectives of this study were to 1) compare the accuracy of waist: hip ratio (WHR)
and waist: height ratio (WHtR) by determining their association with reference‐standard …

Background and Objectives: Obesity in children and adolescents results in a number of
serious health-related consequences necessitating early treatment. Support from family …

Objective Over the years, non-alcoholic fatty liver (NAFLD) disease has progressed to
become the most frequent chronic liver disease in children and adolescents. The full …

Summary Background/Objective While the association between avocado consumption and
low metabolic risk has been shown in some studies conducted in adults, little is known about …