Prevalence rates of pediatric obesity continue to rise worldwide. Adipose tissue (AT)
development and expansion initiate in the fetus and extend throughout the lifespan. This …

Background: Sodium restriction is a nonpharmacologic treatment suggested by practice
guidelines for the management of patients with heart failure (HF). In this study, we …

Background Dietary restriction of sodium has been suggested to prevent fluid overload and
adverse outcomes for patients with heart failure. We designed the Study of Dietary …

OBJECTIVE: The main purpose of the present study was to assess the prognostic value of
the bioelectrical phase angle (PA) in patients with heart failure independently of other …

Aims To determine the feasibility of conducting a randomized controlled trial comparing a
low-sodium to a moderate-sodium diet in heart failure (HF) patients. Methods and Results …

Objective Grip strength is a well-characterised measure of weakness and of poor muscle
performance, but there is a lack of consensus on its prognostic implications in terms of …

OBJECTIVE: Patients with chronic heart failure (HF) develop important changes in body
composition. Nevertheless, the usual methods of body composition assessment can be …

BACKGROUND: Elevated blood pressure at a young age is a predictor of blood pressure
elevation later in life and has been associated with being overweight. However, it seems that …

BACKGROUND: This study explored whether the cachectic state assessed by
bioimpedance vector analysis provides additional prognostic information about mortality …

The most common tools used to screen for abdominal obesity are waist circumference (WC)
and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR); the latter may represent a more suitable tool for the general …