The associations between physical fitness and cardiometabolic risk and body-size phenotypes in perimenopausal women.

Objective: To study the association between physical fitness and body-size phenotypes, and to test which aspects of physical fitness show the greatest independent association with cardiometabolic risk in perimenopausal women.

Study Design: This cross-sectional study involved 228 women aged 53±5years from southern Spain.

Main Outcome Measurements: Physical fitness was assessed by means of the Senior Fitness Test Battery (additionally including handgrip strength and timed up-and-go tests).

Association of physical fitness with health-related quality of life in early postmenopause.

Objective: To assess the association of different components of physical fitness with HRQoL in early postmenopause and to test which physical fitness components are independently associated with the physical and mental components of HRQoL.

Methods: The final sample comprised 67 early postmenopausal women. Physical fitness was assessed with the Senior Fitness Test battery (additionally including handgrip strength test), and HRQoL was evaluated with the Short-Form Health Survey-36 (SF-36).

Mediterranean countries facing the Mediterranean Diet, are we still on track? The example of southern Spain midlife women.

Introduction And Objectives: The overall intake of a cohort of middle aged women of Granada was studied along with their body composition, anthropometric and sociodemographic characteristics to evaluate if this population does really follow a Mediterranean Diet.

Methods: 206 women aged 53.3 ± 5.