Risk and protective factors for health behaviour in adolescence in Europe.

The purpose of the analysis was to identify the risk and protective factors for health behaviour in European adolescents from population health status and expenditure, mental health status, sexual life, social life and education indices and the existence of national strategies, programmes. National and international databases providing information on the presumed health behaviour predictors were used in the analysis. The existence of national health strategies, the level of health expenditure, the socioeconomic conditions, the level of education and literacy had significant influence on the health-risk behaviour of adolescents in the European societies.

A new monitoring system for nutritional status assessment in children at home.

Regular monitoring of children's nutritional status is essential to prevent micronutrient deficiencies, nutritional status abnormalities as stunting, wasting, overweight and obesity. Nutritional status assessment is usually performed by paediatricians by using anthropometry (body mass index, weight to height indices) and/or by body fat-mass measurement (bioimpedance analysis, dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry, computer tomography, etc.).

The photosynthetic pathways of plant species surveyed in Australia's national terrestrial monitoring network.

The photosynthetic pathway of plants is a fundamental trait that influences terrestrial environments from the local to global level. The distribution of different photosynthetic pathways in Australia is expected to undergo a substantial shift due to climate change and rising atmospheric CO; however, tracking change is hindered by a lack of data on the pathways of species, as well as their distribution and relative cover within plant communities. Here we present the photosynthetic pathways for 2428 species recorded across 541 plots surveyed by Australia's Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) between 2011 and 2017.

[Tests of liver function in obese school children].

The non alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) manifests with liver damage and it is associated with obesity. The objective of this work was to detect the risk of obese school students of developing NAFLD, through an analytical, observational study, comparing their liver function with that of a control group, and its relationship with physical activity, dietary, biochemical and anthropometric variables. One hundred and sixty school students (ages 7-11) were evaluated according to their socio-economic status; nutritional status by the body mass index (BMI) and mid-upper arm fat area (MUAC) (Project Venezuela 1994); body fat percentage by anthropometry (% BF), waist circumference (WC); and metabolism by oral glucose tolerance, basal insulin and post-load glucose, total cholesterol (TC), cLDL, cVLDL, cHDL, triglycerides (TG), glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (GOT), glutamic pyruvic transaminase (GPT), gamma glutamil transpeptidasa (GGTP) and albumin.

[Diagnosis of insulin resistance by indirect methods in obese school children].

Unlabelled: Obesity leads to a deterioration of glucose tolerance and the action of insulin. The purpose of this study was to determine insulin resistance (IR) by indirect methods, and its correlation with clinical, anthropometric and biochemical variables in obese normoglycemic school children. This was a descriptive-correlational study of 72 school prepubescent children, who attended the ambulatory "El Concejo" of the University of Carabobo (UC) and at the Gastroenterology and Pediatric Nutrition service of the city hospital "Enrique Tejera" (CHET), in Valencia, Venezuela, between January-April 2011.