Sentences with phrase «between high body mass index»

And in January 2009 another Nature Genetics paper found an association between high body mass index and a 45,000 base - pair deletion in a gene called NEGR1, which affects neuronal growth in the hypothalamus, a brain region that regulates hunger and metabolism.

In a preliminary study published in The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, researchers from the Department of Psychology at Cambridge found an association between high body mass index (BMI) and poorer performance on a test of episodic memory.

Not exact matches

The lower levels of baseline sugar sweetened drink consumption in the UK compared with the US may in part explain why the effect on obesity that we estimate in the UK is much less than that estimated in the US.12 The differences with respect to other modelling studies may also be partly explained by their use of higher own price elasticity values for sugar sweetened drinks than we have calculated and used here.18 22 52 We can not make direct comparisons between the results of our study and the results of recent studies of the effect of reducing sugar sweetened drink consumption on body weight in children, 5 7 as the relation between energy balance and change in body mass index in children who are growing is different from that in adults.

On the other hand, accumulating evidence points to a bigger correlation between a lack of physical exercise and high body fat, measured by the body - mass - index, and high blood pressure.

Researchers have found a connection between exposure to phthalates and childhood obesity, which includes higher BMI (body mass index) as well as waist circumference.

In 2013, Mark DeBoer, associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Virginia and his colleagues fed toddlers and children between the ages of two and four one percent and skim milk, and found that children who drank milk which has a higher amount of protein than whole fat milk, gained more weight and had a higher body mass index than those who drank whole milk or even 2 percent milk.

In women with a higher body mass index who have Classic PCOS, the difference is less between them and the control group.