Physical fitness, body composition, blood pressure, and blood metabolic profile among young Guatemalan adults
We assessed the distribution of several risk factors related to health: muscular strength (handgrip strength), cardiovascular endurance (step test), flexibility (sit and reach test), anthropometry and body composition, blood pressure, fasting plasma glucose, lipid profile, and hemoglobin in a cohort...
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| author | Ramirez-Zea, Manuel Melgar, Paul Flores, Rafael Hoddinott, John F. Ramakrishnan, Usha Stein, Aryeh D. |
| author_browse | Flores, Rafael Hoddinott, John F. Melgar, Paul Ramakrishnan, Usha Ramirez-Zea, Manuel Stein, Aryeh D. |
| author_facet | Ramirez-Zea, Manuel Melgar, Paul Flores, Rafael Hoddinott, John F. Ramakrishnan, Usha Stein, Aryeh D. |
| author_sort | Ramirez-Zea, Manuel |
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| description | We assessed the distribution of several risk factors related to health: muscular strength (handgrip strength), cardiovascular endurance (step test), flexibility (sit and reach test), anthropometry and body composition, blood pressure, fasting plasma glucose, lipid profile, and hemoglobin in a cohort of Guatemalan adults who were born in four rural villages between 1962 and 1977. By 2002 approximately 32% had migrated to Guatemala City or elsewhere in the country. Men are more physically fit and leaner than women. Fatness, poor physical fitness, and metabolic syndrome are highly prevalent in women living in both rural and urban areas. Risk profiles worsen with increasing age. Men who migrated to Guatemala City have lower physical fitness, greater fatness and systolic blood pressure, and worse lipid profile than men who still live in their original villages. Such a pattern was not evident in women, except that blood pressure was higher in urban women than in women who lived in their original villages. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1723582025-02-19T14:07:28Z Physical fitness, body composition, blood pressure, and blood metabolic profile among young Guatemalan adults Ramirez-Zea, Manuel Melgar, Paul Flores, Rafael Hoddinott, John F. Ramakrishnan, Usha Stein, Aryeh D. adults youth blood pressure health metabolism We assessed the distribution of several risk factors related to health: muscular strength (handgrip strength), cardiovascular endurance (step test), flexibility (sit and reach test), anthropometry and body composition, blood pressure, fasting plasma glucose, lipid profile, and hemoglobin in a cohort of Guatemalan adults who were born in four rural villages between 1962 and 1977. By 2002 approximately 32% had migrated to Guatemala City or elsewhere in the country. Men are more physically fit and leaner than women. Fatness, poor physical fitness, and metabolic syndrome are highly prevalent in women living in both rural and urban areas. Risk profiles worsen with increasing age. Men who migrated to Guatemala City have lower physical fitness, greater fatness and systolic blood pressure, and worse lipid profile than men who still live in their original villages. Such a pattern was not evident in women, except that blood pressure was higher in urban women than in women who lived in their original villages. 2005-06 2025-01-29T12:59:51Z 2025-01-29T12:59:51Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/172358 en Limited Access SAGE Publications Ramirez-Zea, Manuel; Melgar, Paul; Flores, Rafael; Hoddinott, John F.; Ramakrishnan, Usha; Stein, Aryeh D. 2005. Physical fitness, body composition, blood pressure, and blood metabolic profile among young Guatemalan adults. Food and Nutrition Bulletin [Supplement 1: The Human Capital 2002-04 study in Guatemala: a follow-up to the INCAP longitudinal study 1969-77] 26(2): S88-S97. https://doi.org/10.1177/15648265050262s109 |
| spellingShingle | adults youth blood pressure health metabolism Ramirez-Zea, Manuel Melgar, Paul Flores, Rafael Hoddinott, John F. Ramakrishnan, Usha Stein, Aryeh D. Physical fitness, body composition, blood pressure, and blood metabolic profile among young Guatemalan adults |
| title | Physical fitness, body composition, blood pressure, and blood metabolic profile among young Guatemalan adults |
| title_full | Physical fitness, body composition, blood pressure, and blood metabolic profile among young Guatemalan adults |
| title_fullStr | Physical fitness, body composition, blood pressure, and blood metabolic profile among young Guatemalan adults |
| title_full_unstemmed | Physical fitness, body composition, blood pressure, and blood metabolic profile among young Guatemalan adults |
| title_short | Physical fitness, body composition, blood pressure, and blood metabolic profile among young Guatemalan adults |
| title_sort | physical fitness body composition blood pressure and blood metabolic profile among young guatemalan adults |
| topic | adults youth blood pressure health metabolism |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/172358 |
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