3DPatBody: 3D dataset of human bodies of a patagonian population and their anthropometric measurements.

The study of human body shape using classical anthropometric techniques is often problematic due to several error sources. Instead, 3D models and representations provide more accurate registrations, which are stable across acquisitions, and enable more precise, systematic, and fast measuring capabilities. Thus, the same person can be scanned several times and precise differential measurements can be established in an accurate manner.

Relationship between moderate alcohol consumption, genetic polymorphisms and body weight in a population sample of Puerto Madryn, Argentina.

Introduction. The relationship between obesity and alcohol consumption is a topic of significant interest to public health. Alcoholic beverages contribute additional calories to the diet, which could be a relevant factor to the overweight risk.

Volga German surnames and Alzheimer's disease in Argentina: an epidemiological perspective.

The N141I variant (PSEN1 gene) is associated with familial forms of early-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) in descendants of Volga Germans, whose migration to Argentina is well documented. As a proxy for geographic origin, surnames can be a valuable tool in population studies. The 2015 Argentine Electoral Registry provided geographic data for 30,530,194 individuals, including 326,922 with Volga German surnames.

"Prevalence and secular trend of neural tube defects in fetal deaths in Argentina, 1994-2019".

Background: Fetal deaths are a major source of information on the epidemiology of neural tube defects (NTDs; anencephaly and myelomeningocele). We analyzed NTDs prevalence and secular trend using fetal death records between 1994 and 2019 in Argentina.

Materials And Methods: Data were obtained from the Department of Statistics and Information of the Ministry of Health (DEIS).

Population diversity and equity in the genomic era: going global to return to the local.

Advances in precision medicine depend on the quantity and quality of available genomic information. Various articles alert about the current disparities between the world's regions regarding the amount of genomic information available and the negative impact this will have on global health. The objective of this paper is to review these articles to describe what aspects they emphasize and highlight some issues that remain to be analyzed from the perspective of a "peripheral" country.

3D Point Cloud Reconstruction for Precise Anthropometry with Handheld Devices.

Current point cloud extraction methods based on photogrammetry generate large amounts of spurious detections that hamper useful 3D mesh reconstructions or, even worse, the possibility of adequate measurements. Moreover, noise removal methods for point clouds are complex, slow and incapable to cope with semantic noise. In this work, we present body2vec, a model-based body segmentation tool that uses a specifically trained Neural Network architecture.

Body shape: Implications in the study of obesity and related traits.

Objectives: The diagnosis and treatment of obesity are usually based on traditional anthropometric variables including weight, height, and several body perimeters. Here we present a three-dimensional (3D) image-based computational approach aimed to capture the distribution of abdominal adipose tissue as an aspect of shape rather than a relationship among classical anthropometric measures.

Methods: A morphometric approach based on landmarks and semilandmarks placed upon the 3D torso surface was performed in order to quantify abdominal adiposity shape variation and its relation to classical indices.

Obesity, genomic ancestry, and socioeconomic variables in Latin American mestizos.

Objectives: This article aims to assess the contribution of genomic ancestry and socioeconomic status to obesity in a sample of admixed Latin Americans.

Methods: The study comprised 6776 adult volunteers from Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru. Each volunteer completed a questionnaire about socioeconomic variables.