Background Tackling severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is a global health priority. Heightened
risk of non-communicable diseases (NCD) in children exposed to SAM at around 2 years of …

The adaptive and independent interrelationships between different body composition
components have been identified as crucial determinants of disease risk. Based on this …

There is a need for simple proxies of health status, in order to improve monitoring of chronic
disease risk within and between populations, and to assess the efficacy of public health …

In this article, a novel lower extremity gait rehabilitation device with a single actuator is
presented. The proposed device, Mech-Walker, utilizes the single-degree of freedom eight …

Background: Populations in low-and middle-income countries are increasingly experiencing
a double burden of malnutrition (DBM), incorporating both persistent levels of child …

Humans stand out among non-aquatic mammals by having both an extremely large brain
and a relatively large amount of body fat. To understand the evolution of this human …

Background: Stunting remains a very common form of child malnutrition worldwide,
particularly in South Asian populations. There is poor understanding of how it develops and …

This study investigated the acceptable accuracy of common body composition techniques
compared with the reference 4-compartment (4C-R) model, which has not been investigated …

Human mate choice is influenced by limb proportions. Previous work has focused on leg-to-
body ratio (LBR) as a determinant of male attractiveness and found a preference for limbs …

Background and aims Hypertension (HTH) is a frequent complication in pediatric obesity. To
simplify the screening of HTH in overweight/obese (Ow/Ob) youth, we compared the …