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Overweight and obesity in childhood can cause some orthopedic problems and these problems may deteriorate as the age increases. Gait changes may reflect these problems. Currently there are very few studies on changes in gait characteristics of overweight and obese (OWO) children with different age. The purpose of this study was to investigate the gait changes of OWO children with different age. Gait...
Obesity is the final consequence of a chronic positive energy balance in adipocytes,and it is a major risk factor for insulin resistance,type 2 diabetes mellitus,and many other lifestyle-related diseases.Adipose tissue can sense the energy status and signals other organs with adipokines.Insulin resistance is closely associated with inflammatory adipokines and oxidative stress in adipose tissue. However,...
Overweight and obese students in school as a relatively special group, overweight and obesity have become the obstacles in his (her) healthy growth, how to improve this population's physical and mental health is the important prerequisite to enhance the health level of students in our country. This study aims to intervene in overweight and obese female college students by exercise plus balanced diet...
This paper presents an automatic video analysis method for physical activity classification and measurement. A wearable device is used to capture daily life data for health monitoring. Physical activity is analyzed by using the change of surrounding scenes resulting from the motion of the wearer. Recognition of different physical activities is achieved by analyzing motion characteristics in images...
A new image based activity recognition method for a person wearing a video camera below the neck is presented in this paper. The wearable device is used to capture video data in front of the wearer. Although the wearer never appears in the video, his or her physical activity is analyzed and recognized using the recorded scene changes resulting from the motion of the wearer. Correspondence features...
The purpose of this paper is to present a comparative analysis of the biomechanics of sit-to-stand (STS) movement in normal and obese teenagers based on measurement data. First, ten volunteers were enrolled as normal group and the other ten volunteers were enrolled as obese group. A measurement system was set up with an infrared camera subsystem and a force measurement subsystem. Then, the participants...
Obesity is a risk factor for asthma. The purpose of this study was to determine whether metformin, an agent used in the treatment of another obesity-related condition, type II diabetes, might have therapeutic potential for airway smooth muscle (ASM) function in obesity.
Interest in studying human posture, movement, and physical activity is growing due in part to the increasing prevalence of obesity. Accelerometers are commonly used in motion analysis systems to enable researchers to conduct studies outside of the traditional laboratory environment; however the available systems tend to be bulky and unsuitable for long-term studies. Therefore, a need exists for a...
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