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{"title":"A theoretical model of secular body mass index dynamics among Russian adults under changing socio-economic conditions.","authors":"Marina A Negasheva, Olga A Kuznetsova, Ainur A Khafizova, Alla A Movsesian","doi":"10.1186/s40101-025-00415-5","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40101-025-00415-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Body mass index (BMI) is a key indicator of population health and often shifts alongside socio-economic change. Few studies have tracked these dynamics over long periods in transitional economies. Russia's late-twentieth-century transformations offer a rare opportunity to examine such links. This study develops and validates a time-series model of BMI in 19 years old, relating changes in socio-economic and demographic indicators to BMI trends and producing scenario-based forecasts.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong>We analyzed national time-series data published by the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration for 1975-2016 (males and females, age 19), along with indicators of urbanization, fertility, infant and all-cause mortality, life expectancy, and nutritional proxies (protein supply, animal-source calories, meat). Predictors were standardized. Per sex, we estimated the following: (i) first-difference OLS, (ii) dynamic regressions with a lagged BMI term (ARDL(1,0)), and (iii) smooth-trend models with a natural cubic spline in year. Diagnostics included augmented Dickey-Fuller and Durbin-Watson tests. Model selection triangulated elastic net, partial least squares, and stepwise regression. Rolling-origin one-step-ahead forecasts used only information available at time t; bootstrap resampling assessed sign stability.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Across specifications, the urbanization share was the most robust correlate of BMI. For males, higher urbanization was consistently and inversely associated with BMI; for females, the association was small and model sensitive (frequently negative but not uniformly significant). Effects of life expectancy and mortality attenuated and often lost significance once smooth time structure was included, indicating shared long-run movement rather than distinct short-run covariation; infant mortality added little independent signal. Nutrition proxies contributed limited, non-robust information. ARDL(1,0) one-step-ahead forecasts outperformed random-walk and trend-only baselines. Under a baseline scenario (continuation of recent socio-economic patterns), projected BMI in 2050 is approximately 26.6 kg/m² (males) and 26.7 kg/m² (females). Forecasts use only information available at time t (lagged predictors/nowcasts) and are conditional on assumed exogenous trajectories; longer-horizon projections are scenario based rather than unconditional.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>After explicit treatment of nonstationarity, macrodemographic structure, especially urbanization, shows the most consistent links to BMI at age 19, whereas national-scale nutrition proxies are weak at this grain. Findings are descriptive, not causal; forecasts should be interpreted with caution. Incorporating finer-grained behavioral, dietary, and environmental data will help clarify mechanisms and improve long-term forecasting.</p>","PeriodicalId":48730,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physiological Anthropology","volume":"44 1","pages":"34"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12750930/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145858648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"What makes females walk at comparable speeds to males? Physical, physiological, or biomechanical factors.","authors":"Yujin Kwon, Gwanseob Shin","doi":"10.1186/s40101-025-00417-3","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40101-025-00417-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Although males typically have longer limbs and greater muscle mass than females, previous studies have reported no significant sex differences in self-selected walking speed. This suggests that females may adopt alternative biomechanical strategies to compensate for their anatomical disadvantages. However, the specific mechanisms that enable females to achieve a walking speed comparable to males remain unclear.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>One hundred and fifty-one young adults (76F,75M) performed a 3-min barefoot walking at their self-selected walking speed on a 10-m walkway. During walking, spatiotemporal gait parameters, vertical ground reaction forces, and foot and ankle joint kinematics were recorded. Anthropometric measurements and body composition were also obtained to assess physical capacity. Walking speed was compared between males and females, and contributing factors to walking speed were analyzed.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Self-selected walking speed was not significantly different between sexes. However, when normalized by leg length, females exhibited significantly longer stride lengths and faster walking speeds than males (p < 0.05). Females also demonstrated greater ankle joint range of motion and walked with significantly greater ankle plantarflexion at toe-off, which likely contributed to increased forefoot pushing force. Additionally, females exhibited longer normalized stride lengths and faster stride times, resulting in faster normalized walking speeds compared to males.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The findings suggest that females compensate for relatively shorter limb lengths and lower muscle mass by relying more on distal joint flexibility and passively generated push-off power, particularly at the ankle. Females may also adjust stride length and stride time to achieve walking speeds comparable to males despite anatomical differences. Interventions aimed at modifying push-off strategies may enhance walking efficiency and could inform the development of targeted, sex-specific gait training programs.</p>","PeriodicalId":48730,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physiological Anthropology","volume":"44 1","pages":"35"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12750781/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145858589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A heart rate variability-driven framework for depression screening leveraging emotion-elicited autonomic divergence.","authors":"Zhibin Zhu, Xuanyi Wang, Yifei Xu, Wanlin Chen, Jing Zheng, Shulin Chen, Hang Chen","doi":"10.1186/s40101-025-00414-6","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40101-025-00414-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Depression manifests significant emotional dysregulation, characterized by heightened sadness susceptibility and attenuated happiness responsiveness in individuals with depression (IWD). This study employs structured emotion induction protocols to analyze physiological response disparities between IWD and healthy controls (HC) across multiple affective states, establishing empirical foundations for optimizing affective computing-based depression screening.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Dual-phase statistical identification was conducted using Mann-Whitney U tests: initially verifying emotion elicitation validity by comparing HRV features between emotional states and resting conditions, subsequently detecting IWD/HC response differences within each emotion. Machine learning frameworks were then constructed leveraging HRV features and intergroup differential response patterns.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Comparative analysis revealed generally consistent directional patterns and response magnitudes across groups for most features, while critical divergences emerged characterized by heightened sadness reactivity in IWD alongside attenuated happiness responsiveness. Implemented models achieved 76.8% accuracy (AUC = 0.772, 95% CI 0.699-0.841) under sadness-specific conditions, outperforming anger/happiness-induced models (≈ 70% accuracy) and substantially surpassing resting-state baselines.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Systematic investigation of HRV-mediated elicitation patterns through discrete emotion induction confirms clinically significant differential responsiveness between groups, empirically validating heightened sadness susceptibility in IWDs.</p><p><strong>Significance: </strong>These findings offer valuable guidance for refining affective computing-based depression screening algorithms, while contributing to the mechanistic understanding of disorder-specific physiological responses to emotional stimuli.</p>","PeriodicalId":48730,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physiological Anthropology","volume":"44 1","pages":"33"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12729146/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145829007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Association of objectively measured physical activity with phase angle obtained from bioelectrical impedance analysis in older adults with disabilities under the long-term care insurance system.","authors":"Yoshihiro Fukumoto, Masanori Wakida, Ryo Kubota, Shinobu Yamazaki, Tsuyoshi Asai, Masashi Taniguchi, Jiro Nakano, Haruhiko Sato, Kimitaka Hase","doi":"10.1186/s40101-025-00416-4","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40101-025-00416-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aim: </strong>The phase angle (PhA), assessed using bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA), is becoming increasingly popular as an index of muscle quality associated with various health-related outcomes. This study aimed to clarify the relationship between PhA and sedentary behavior (SB), light physical activity (LPA), and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), which were objectively measured using accelerometers in older adults with disabilities requiring care.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We recruited 90 older adults (39 men and 51 women, mean age of 78.7 ± 6.7 years) with disabilities under the long-term care insurance system. Skeletal muscle mass index (SMI) and PhA of the lower limbs were measured using a multifrequency BIA instrument. Daily durations of SB, LPA, and MVPA per day were measured using a triaxial accelerometer. Nutritional status was assessed using the long form of the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The MVPA duration was significantly associated with lower limb PhA after adjusting for age, sex, SB and LPA durations, MNA score, and medical history (p = 0.037), whereas SB and LPA durations were not associated with lower limb PhA. The duration of SB, LPA, and MVPA were not significantly associated with lower limb SMI, whereas the MNA score was.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Lower limb PhA, but not lower limb SMI, was associated with MVPA duration, independent of nutritional status and medical history. Enhancing the duration of MVPA is needed to maintain the PhA and prevent further decline in physical function in older adults who require long-term care due to disabilities.</p>","PeriodicalId":48730,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physiological Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12771791/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145641633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Thermal sensation and comfort responses during repeated exposure to mild heat.","authors":"Naoshi Kakitsuba, Kazuo Nagano","doi":"10.1186/s40101-025-00409-3","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40101-025-00409-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Since psychological and physiological responses to repeated exposure to mild heat has not been fully studied, the present study was designed to confirm overshooting responses in thermal sensation after repeated exposure to mild heat (i.e., the cooling period), the manner of change in the thermal sensation responses (TSRs) and the thermal comfort responses (TCRs) during the cooling period, and effect of short-term heat acclimation during repeated exposure to mild heat. In the summer, eight young adult male subjects (a mean age of 21.1 ± 1.4 years; a mean height of 173.1 ± 5.6 cm and a mean weight of 58.8 ± 7.5 kg) with clothing insulation (I_cl, clo) of 0.3 clo first stayed in the control room at 26 °C for 15 min, then moved to the main testing room at 33 °C for 10 min (condition 1), 15 min (condition 2), or 20 min (condition 3), and finally returned to the control room for 15 min. The exposure was repeated five times. TSR and TCR were recorded in a 5-min interval from the beginning of the first exposure. The tympanic temperature (T_ty), skin temperatures at the chest, forearm, front of the thigh, and front of the shin, and ECG and heart rate were continuously monitored. Local sweat rates at the same sites of skin temperature were monitored at the end of each exposure. Changes in T_ty and mean skin temperature ( <math> <msub> <mover><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow> <mrow><mo>¯</mo></mrow> </mover> <mi>sk</mi></msub> </math> ) indicated no significant difference between conditions and no indication of short-term heat acclimation. Since the subjects voted nearly \"cold\" when <math> <msub> <mover><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow> <mrow><mo>¯</mo></mrow> </mover> <mi>sk</mi></msub> </math>  remained high at the beginning of the cooling period, overshooting responses in thermal sensation were repeatedly observed in all conditions. The subjects voted \"slightly cool\" at the end of cooling period while <math> <msub> <mover><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow> <mrow><mo>¯</mo></mrow> </mover> <mi>sk</mi></msub> </math>  kept decreasing during the cooling period. The thermally neutral <math> <msub> <mover><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow> <mrow><mo>¯</mo></mrow> </mover> <mi>sk</mi></msub> </math>  was then estimated to be 0.3 °C-4.2 °C lower than <math> <msub> <mover><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow> <mrow><mo>¯</mo></mrow> </mover> <mi>sk</mi></msub> </math>  observed prior to the first exposure. Thus, a residual effect on TSR during the cooling period was confirmed. Changes in the mean sweat rate, TSR and TCR showed significant differences between conditions but no indication of short-term heat acclimation. However, change in heart rate and ECG analysis implied the effect of short-term heat acclimation.</p>","PeriodicalId":48730,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physiological Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":"2"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12781422/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145641641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Heart rate variability reveals graded task difficulty effects and sensitization dynamics in anticipatory psychological stress via time-domain analysis.","authors":"Ziqi Jian, Jingshi Huang, Feng Shi, Yoshihiro Shimomura","doi":"10.1186/s40101-025-00413-7","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40101-025-00413-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Mental arithmetic tasks effectively induce psychological stress responses, but anticipatory stress responses before task onset are often overlooked. This study investigates how task difficulty influences anticipatory stress through heart rate variability time-domain analysis.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This study developed a standardized mental arithmetic task program using Unity, incorporating low, medium, and high levels by adjusting the amount of calculation and time limits. The participants were 12 healthy graduate and doctoral students. During the experiment, heart rate variability time indicators and the average RR interval were used as key physiological indicators to quantify psychological stress response. After the experiment, the participants were asked to complete the NASA Task Load Index (NASA-TLX) questionnaire to assess their workload.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The NASA-TLX scores revealed significant differences in perceived workload among the three levels of task difficulty. The results indicated that task difficulty had a significant impact on anticipatory psychological stress response. High-level tasks elicited significantly greater anticipatory psychological stress responses compared to low-level tasks. Among the indicators used, the standard deviation of normal-to-normal (SDNN) intervals demonstrated particularly strong performance and may serve as a reliable and sensitive measure of anticipatory psychological stress response.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study provides preliminary evidence supporting the use of SDNN as a complementary physiological indicator of anticipatory psychological stress responses. The findings suggest that task difficulty not only modulates individuals' anticipatory psychological responses on a cognitive level but also significantly shapes the dynamic trajectory of the SDNN during stress development. The observed sensitization effect indicates that higher-difficulty tasks can lead to enhanced anticipatory psychological stress responses in subsequent tasks. These results have potential implications for optimizing psychological stress response intervention strategies and for the development of standardized and replicable paradigms for anticipatory psychological stress research. Future studies should incorporate a larger and more diverse sample to further investigate how individual differences influence anticipatory psychological stress responses.</p>","PeriodicalId":48730,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physiological Anthropology","volume":"44 1","pages":"32"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12642150/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145597867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Association between anthropometric indices and body fat for identifying excess body fat in elementary school children: a population-based cross-sectional study.","authors":"Kumiko Ohara, Katsuyasu Kouda, Katsumasa Momoi, Tomoki Mase, Yuki Fujita, Akihiro Takada, Yoshimitsu Okita, Harunobu Nakamura","doi":"10.1186/s40101-025-00410-w","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40101-025-00410-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Identifying and managing obesity in children is essential to prevent obesity-related diseases in adulthood. This study aimed to evaluate the association between body mass index (BMI), degree of obesity, waist circumference, waist-to-height ratio, and body fat-particularly excess body fat.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Participants included 660 children aged 9-12 years (349 boys and 311 girls). Fat mass, fat-free mass, and body fat percentage were assessed using bioelectrical impedance analysis. The discriminatory ability of BMI, degree of obesity, waist circumference, and waist-to-height ratio to identify excess body fat-defined as body fat percentage exceeding the 85th, 90th, or 95th percentile-was evaluated using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve and precision-recall (PR) curve analyses. Classification performance was further evaluated using a confusion matrix, accuracy, precision, recall, F1 score, Cohen's kappa coefficient, and Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The areas under the ROC curve (AUCs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for BMI, degree of obesity, waist circumference, and waist-to-height ratio in identifying obesity based on body fat percentage were > 0.9 in both sexes in most cases. PR AUCs and 95% CIs for BMI and degree of obesity were ≥ 0.8 in most cases. Precision, recall, and F1 scores for BMI and degree of obesity in identifying obesity at the 85th or 95th percentiles were > 70% in nearly all cases. Kappa coefficients indicated substantial agreement between BMI and the 85th or 90th percentiles of body fat percentage, and moderate agreement for the degree of obesity. The MCC index showed a pattern similar to that of the kappa coefficients.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings suggest that BMI and degree of obesity are strongly associated with body fat percentage across the 85th, 90th, and 95th percentiles and that obesity classifications based on BMI as well as degree of obesity align closely with those based on body fat percentage.</p>","PeriodicalId":48730,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physiological Anthropology","volume":"44 1","pages":"31"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12628560/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145551662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Nonrestorative sleep is associated with somatic and depressive symptoms in Japanese junior high school students.","authors":"Yusuke Nakayama","doi":"10.1186/s40101-025-00412-8","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40101-025-00412-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Study objectives: </strong>Nonrestorative sleep (NRS) has been identified as a potential risk factor for physical and mental well-being in adults, but limited research exists for children and adolescents. This study aimed to clarify the factors associated with NRS in Japanese junior high school students.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The participants were 529 Japanese junior high school students in grades 7 through 9. Participants were asked to respond to Google Forms, and responses were obtained from 392 students. Sleep habits, history of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), physical symptoms, social isolation, and the presence of the symptoms of restless legs syndrome (RLS) were identified. NRS, insomnia symptoms, and depressive symptoms were evaluated using the Restorative Sleep Questionnaire (RSQ), Athens Insomnia Scale (AIS), and Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ)-9, respectively. The cut-off value for NRS determination by the RSQ score was the mean of the scores that maximized the sensitivity and specificity sum for detecting participants with AIS and PHQ-9 scores of ≥ 6 and ≥ 5, respectively. NRS-associated sleep parameters and those associated with depressive symptoms were evaluated using binominal logistic regression analysis. Multinomial logistic regression (MLR) analysis was used to confirm the reproducibility of the binomial logistic regression analysis results with lower RSQ scores.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The NRS group comprised 40.1% of participants and exhibited a higher prevalence of physical and depressive symptoms compared to those with restorative sleep. Logistic regression analysis, adjusted for sex, grade, and COVID-19 history, revealed the following odds ratios (95% confidence interval) for NRS: average total sleep time < 7 h 2.44 (1.16-4.33), AIS ≥ 6 2.74 (1.51-4.95), evening chronotype 2.58 (1.49-4.47), and RLS symptoms 2.21 (1.21-4.03). The same results were obtained using MLR as those obtained via binomial logistic regression analysis. Logistic regression analysis for depressive symptoms revealed that NRS displayed the highest odds ratio (95% CI) of 3.16 (1.90-5.27) among the sleep-related variables.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings suggest that NRS in Japanese junior high school students is associated with physical and mental health issues. Intervention and longitudinal studies are warranted to address NRS-associated sleep-wake problems in this age group.</p>","PeriodicalId":48730,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physiological Anthropology","volume":"44 1","pages":"30"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12607099/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145496692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Association between serum omentin-1 concentrations and body composition measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry in Japanese elementary school-aged children.","authors":"Yuki Murakami, Yuki Fujita, Kumiko Ohara, Harunobu Nakamura, Masayuki Iki, Katsuyasu Kouda","doi":"10.1186/s40101-025-00406-6","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40101-025-00406-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Omentin-1 (also known as intelectin-1) is a novel adipokine associated with metabolic diseases. However, its physiological role in body composition remains incompletely understood. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the association between the circulating omentin-1 levels and whole-body and regional body composition parameters measured using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A population-based cross-sectional survey was conducted among school-aged children in Hamamatsu, Japan. Serum adipokine levels were measured using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, and associations between omentin-1 levels and DXA-based parameters were evaluated by multiple regression analysis after adjusting for potential confounding factors.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The final study included 392 participants (192 boys, 200 girls, 75.2% of the source population; mean age 11.2 ± 0.3 years). Serum omentin-1 levels showed a significantly inverse association with nearly all DXA-based fat mass parameters. Inverse correlations were observed with fat-free soft tissue mass and serum leptin levels, whereas positive correlations were noted with adiponectin levels. The mean values for various body fat parameters, fat-free soft tissue mass, body mass index, and waist circumference were significantly decreased across tertiles of serum omentin-1 levels from lowest to the highest after adjusting for potential confounders.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Our results demonstrate that Japanese school-aged children with higher fat mass tended to have lower serum omentin-1 levels. These findings provide crucial insights into the link between omentin-1 levels and body composition, which may contribute to early health interventions for metabolic improvement.</p>","PeriodicalId":48730,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physiological Anthropology","volume":"44 1","pages":"29"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12595685/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145472270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Changes in physiological parameters and thermal comfort when wearing protective clothing in long-range aeromedical evacuation: a prospective, non-blinded, two-stage crossover self-controlled study.","authors":"Yadi Zhang, Fan Jiang, Zhenyao Song, Jintao Lian, Licun Han","doi":"10.1186/s40101-025-00411-9","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40101-025-00411-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The thermos-physiological characteristics of medical personnel wearing protective clothing during prolonged activities under low oxygen pressure (LOP) and normal oxygen pressure (NOP) are crucial.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The average age of the 24 participants was 22.13 ± 1.849 years, with an average height of 168.58 ± 6.268 cm, an average weight of 61.62 ± 8.128 kg, and an average BMI of 21.59 ± 1.761 kg/m². Participants were first exposed to an LOP environment. The 6-h experiment involved a three-phase cycle (sitting, walking, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)) repeated every hour. After a 2-week washout period, 24 participants were exposed to a NOP environment and repeated the aforementioned experimental procedure. Logistic regression and Cox analysis were used to assess the relationship between different oxygen pressures and human indicators. Restricted cubic spline (RCS) analysis was employed to examine the temporal changes in physiological indicators, and the Kaplan-Meier (K-M) method was used to plot survival curves.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Each observation time point identified 120 min as the optimal protection time, with the greatest intergroup differences observed for both continuous (5/8 variables) and categorical (8/12 variables) parameters at this time point. Stepwise Regression analyses combining logistic and Cox regression identified six significant variables (P < 0.05): temperature, SpO₂, pulse pressure, thermal sensation vote (TSV), sultriness, and rating of perceived exertion (RPE). K-M analysis revealed significantly higher probabilities of adverse outcomes in the LOP group compared to the NOP group: SpO₂ abnormalities (HR = 1.439, 95% CI: 1.026-2.017; log-rank P = 0.022), High TSV scores (HR = 2.463 [1.537-3.946]; P < 0.001), High sultriness scores (HR = 1.603 [1.260-2.040]; P < 0.001). RCS analysis of LOP group data showed significant temporal effects: RPE exhibited a nonlinear upward trend (overall P < 0.001; nonlinear P = 0.002), reaching an inflection point at 200 min. SpO₂ demonstrated linear decline (P = 0.002/0.143; inflection point = 200 min). Pulse pressure showed covariate-dependent effects: nonsignificant before adjustment (P = 0.430) but significant after adjustment (P = 0.008/0.891; inflection point = 200 min).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our research shows that 120 ~ 200 min is an optimal working time that does not affect the work efficiency of medical personnel.</p>","PeriodicalId":48730,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physiological Anthropology","volume":"44 1","pages":"28"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12595711/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145472316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}