Introducción. La evaluación de la composición corporal es relevante para determinar el estado nutricional e identificar posibles riesgos para la salud. Objetivo. a) Desarrollar ecuaciones de regresión para predecir la ...

Background: Hand grip strength (HGS) is associated with a number of causes resulting in cardiovascular death, in addition to bone fragility, and the presence of sarcopenia. The goal of our study was to analyze HGS of ...

Background: The norms for evaluating the maximum expiratory flow (MEF) usually are developed according to chronological age and height. However, to date, little research has been conducted using reference values that take ...

The measurement of waist circumference (WC) is considered to be an important means to control overweight and obesity in children and adolescents. The objectives of the study were to (a) compare the WC measurements of Chilean ...

Objetivos: a) validar una escala de actitud a la obesidad para adolescentes, b) verificar su capacidad de reproductibilidad y c) proponer baremos para su valoración en función de la edad y sexo. Sujetos y métodos: Se efectuó ...

Objectives: Physical growth and body adiposity patterns provide relevant information to infer the nutritional and health status of students. Our objectives were (a) to compare the variables of body adiposity and physical ...

Objectives: The goal of this study was to develop regression equations to estimate LM with anthropometric variables and to propose percentiles for evaluating by age and sex. Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted ...