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When healthy adult men at high altitude consume significantly fewer calories than they burn for three weeks, they lose about 3.6 kilograms of lean body mass, whether they eat 1.0 or 2.0 grams of...
In human fat tissue under the skin, the activity of certain genes involved in fat development does not change based on a person's body weight or fat levels, suggesting that how fat tissue is...
Fat cells from the abdomen and buttocks show different patterns of HOX gene activity, and these differences remain even when the cells are grown in a lab dish, suggesting the patterns are inherent to...
The HOXA10 gene is more active in fat cells under the skin of the buttocks than in fat cells around the abdomen, and this higher activity continues even when these cells are grown in a lab. This...
The HOXC13 gene is active only in fat tissue under the skin of the buttocks in both men and women, and not in abdominal fat tissue, which may indicate it helps define the distinct metabolic behavior...
Fat tissue under the skin in the abdomen and buttocks has different patterns of gene activity, with certain genes involved in body development being less active in buttock fat than in abdominal fat,...
For women having open abdominal surgery to treat endometrial cancer, a muscle thickness measurement of 7.52 mm in the rectus abdominis is used to estimate the likelihood of complications after...
For women having open abdominal surgery to treat endometrial cancer, the thickness of the psoas major muscle does not reliably predict whether they will experience complications after surgery.
In women having open abdominal surgery for endometrial cancer, having thinner abdominal muscles (below 7.52 mm) is linked to a 44.8% chance of experiencing complications after surgery, but this link...
For women having open abdominal surgery to treat endometrial cancer, longer surgery times are linked to a slightly higher chance of complications within three months after surgery, even when...
For women having open abdominal surgery to treat endometrial cancer, older age is linked to a higher chance of complications within three months after surgery, even when other factors are taken into...
When people exercise regularly over a long time, their bodies may lower energy use in other functions, such as metabolism or cellular processes, which can reduce the amount of weight lost compared to...
People in traditional societies who are physically active all day burn about the same number of calories per day as people in Western countries who are mostly sedentary, suggesting that the human...
Some people stop losing weight even when they keep exercising and eating the same amount, because their bodies may lower energy use in other functions to balance out the extra activity.
The amount of fat stored around internal organs and within muscles and the liver is more strongly linked to signs of aging in the heart and blood vessels than overall body weight measured by BMI.
In men, having more fat around the upper body is linked to an older biological age of the heart and blood vessels, with each extra kilogram of this fat type adding nearly a year to cardiovascular...
In women before menopause, having more fat stored around the hips and thighs is linked to a slower decline in cardiovascular health over time, and genetic factors that influence this fat distribution...
Higher amounts of fat in the liver are linked to older biological cardiovascular age compared to fat stored around the abdomen, with each 1% increase in liver fat corresponding to about 1.066...
In middle-aged adults, having more fat around the internal organs is linked to a faster rate of cardiovascular aging, with each additional liter of this fat corresponding to an extra 0.656 years of...
After giving birth for the first time, women who do Pilates for four weeks may see improved abdominal muscle strength and a smaller gap between the abdominal muscles, but this does not lead to...
After having a baby, doing Pilates for four weeks does not make the main abdominal muscle thicker, but it may still improve core function by changing how nerves activate the muscles or by...
After giving birth for the first time, women who do Pilates for four weeks show a small reduction in the separation between the two sides of the abdominal muscle, with slightly more reduction...
After doing supervised Pilates five times a week for 50 minutes each session over four weeks, women who recently gave birth do not show a measurable increase in the thickness of their rectus...
Women who have recently given birth and participate in a supervised Pilates program five times a week for four weeks show an increase of about 8.55 more repetitions in a 1-minute curl-up test...