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English to Spanish: Relación entre actividad física medida objetivamente con la grasa corporal total y central en adolescentes españoles; El estudio HELENA. (Versión completa en PDF) (Full study available on PDF) General field: Medical Detailed field: Nutrition
Source text - English Association of objectively assessed physical activity with total and central body fat in Spanish adolescents; The HELENA Study
1Growth, Exercise, Nutrition and Development Research Group (GENUD), Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain; 2Department of Biosciences and Nutrition at NOVUM, Unit for Preventive Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; 3Department of Medical Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Granada, Granada,
Spain; 4Faculty of Health and Sport Science (FCSD), Department of Physiotherapy and Nursing, Universidad de Zaragoza, Huesca, Spain; 5Facultad de Ciencias del Deporte, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain and 6School of Health Science (EUCS), Department of Physiotherapy and Nursing, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
Objectives: To examine the association of objectively assessed physical activity (PA) with markers of total and central body fat in adolescents, and to determine whether meeting the current PA recommendations (X60 min day 1 of at least moderate intensity PA) is associated with reduced levels of total and central body fat.
Subjects/Methods: A total of 365 Spanish adolescents aged 12.5–17.5 years participated in this cross-sectional study. PA was assessed by accelerometry and expressed as average PA (counts per minute), and min day 1 of light, moderate, moderate to vigorous (MVPA) and vigorous PA. MVPA was dichotomized into o60 min day 1 and X60. Total body fat was measured by DXA, BodPod and the sum of six skinfolds. Central body fat was measured by DXA at three regions (R1, R2 and R3), and waist circumference.
Results: All markers of central body fat were negatively associated with vigorous PA (Po0.01) after controlling for sex, age and pubertal status. Abdominal adiposity measured at R1, R2 and R3 was also negatively associated with MVPA (Pp0.001), and with average PA (Po0.01). All markers of total body fat were negatively associated with vigorous PA (Po0.01), MVPA (Po0.01) and average PA (Po0.05). Adolescents engaged on at least 60 min day 1 MVPA presented lower levels of total (Po0.05) and central body fat (Pp0.01).
Conclusions: The results suggest that vigorous PA may have a greater effect on preventing obesity in adolescents than does PA of lower intensity, whereas both average PA and at least moderate PA may have an impact on total and central body fat in youth. International Journal of Obesity (2009) 33, 1126–1135; doi:10.1038/ijo.2009.139; published online 14 July 2009
Introduction
There is compelling evidence that objectively assessed physical activity (PA) is negatively associated with markers of total1–10 and central body fat,8,11–14 in children and adolescents,15 but with contradictory results.16,17 Most of the epidemiological studies used anthropometry to assess body composition because it is the most feasible method when large samples need to be assessed. However, more advanced methods to assess body composition such as Dual-Energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DXA) are also required to minimize the error of measurement and to better understand the associa-tion between PA and body fat in youth.
The US Department of Health and Human Services together with several medical institutions recently launched Physical Activity Guidelines for children and adolescents: it is mentioned that this population group should participate in 1 h or more of PA per day, and most of the activity should be moderate or vigorous aerobic PA.18 Whether meeting the current PA recommendations, based on an objective assess-ment of PA, is associated with a healthier body composition, as measured by accurate methods, remains to be elucidated. For preventive purposes and public health strategies, it is of great interest to understand the impact of PA on levels of total and central body fat in adolescents.
The aim of this study was to examine the association between objectively assessed PA and markers of total and central body fat measured by DXA, BodPod and anthro-pometry in a Spanish cohort of adolescents participat-ing in the HELENA-CSS (Healthy Lifestyle in Europe by Nutrition in Adolescence Cross-Sectional) study. We also determined whether meeting the current PA recommenda-tions was associated with reduced levels of total and central body fat.
Subjects and methods
Subjects
The HELENA-CSS study is a multi-centre, cross-sectional study performed in ten European cities that was designed to obtain reliable and comparable data on a broad battery of relevant nutrition and health-related parameters of a sample of European adolescents:19,20 dietary intake, food choices and preferences, anthropometry, serum indicators of lipid metabolism and glucose metabolism, vitamin and mineral status, immunological markers, physical activity, fitness and genetic markers.
All participants were recruited at schools and met the general HELENA-CCS inclusion criteria (age range 12.5–17.5 years, not participating simultaneously in another clinical
trial and be free of any acute infection lasting less than 1 week before the inclusion).19,20 A total of 392 adolescents
were measured in Zaragoza (Spain), and 365 (182 female and 183 male participants) had valid DXA and PA data, and were then included in this study. After receiving complete information about the aims and methods of the study, all adolescents and their parents or guardians signed the informed written consent.
The study was performed following the ethical guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki 1961 (revision of Edinburgh 2000). For the Spanish sample, the study protocol was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Govern-ment of Arago´n (CEICA; Spain). Complete description of ethical issues and good clinical practice within the HELENA-CSS study can be found elsewhere.21
Body fat assessment
Body fat assessed by DXA: Body fat was assessed using a paediatric version of the software (QDR-Explorer, Hologic Corp., Software version 12.4, Waltham, MA, USA). The DXA was calibrated using a lumbar spine phantom as recommended by the manufacturer, and adolescents were scanned in supine position. Analysis of total body fat mass was performed using the extended research mode according to the operating manual. Percentage total body fat was calculated as total body fat mass divided by body weight.
Abdominal adiposity was assessed at three different regions, R1, R2 and R3 (Figure 1).22,23 A rectangle was drawn
on the digital scan image to establish every region. All of them had the lower horizontal border on the top of the iliac crest. For R1, the upper border was established parallel to the end of the lowest rib. The upper border of R2 was parallel to the junction of T12 and L1 vertebrae, and for R3, it was parallel to the middle of the costo-vertebrae articulation of the last rib. The lateral sides of these regions were adjusted to include all the body tissue.
Translation - Spanish Relación entre actividad física medida objetivamente con la grasa corporal total y central en adolescentes españoles; El estudio HELENA.
Objetivos: Examinar las relaciones entre la actividad física (AF) medida objetivamente y los indicadores de grasa corporal total y central en adolescentes, y determinar si acaso satisfacer las recomendaciones actuales de AF (≥60 minutos diarios-1 de AF de intensidad a lo menos moderada) se asocia a niveles reducidos de grasa corporal total y central.
Sujetos/Métodos: Un total de 365 adolescentes españoles de entre 12,5 y 17,5 años participaron en este estudio transversal. La AF fue medida por acelerometría y expresada como AF promedio (conteos por minuto), y minuto/día-1 de AF ligera, moderada, moderada a vigorosa (AFMV), y vigorosa. La AFMV se estableció como < 60 min/día-1 y ≥60. La grasa corporal total fue medida por absorciometría de rayos X de doble energía (DXA), BodPod y la suma de seis pliegues cutáneos. La GCC fue medida por DXA en tres regiones (R1, R2 y R3), y en la circunferencia de la cintura (CC).
Resultados: Todos los indicadores de GCC se asociaron negativamente a la AF vigorosa (P < 0.01) tras controlar por sexo, edad y estadio puberal. La adiposidad abdominal medida en R1, R2 y R3 también se asoció negativamente con la AFMV (P ≤ 0,001), y con la AF promedio (P
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English to Spanish: Drácula (extracto) / Dracula (excerpt) General field: Art/Literary Detailed field: Poetry & Literature
Source text - English 4 June.--Last night the Count left me early, and locked himself into his own room. As soon as I dared I ran up the winding stair, and looked out of the window, which opened South. I thought I would watch for the Count, for there is something going on. The Szgany are quartered somewhere in the castle and are doing work of some kind. I know it, for now and then, I hear a far-away muffled sound as of mattock and spade, and, whatever it is, it must be the end of some ruthless villainy. I had been at the window somewhat less than half an hour, when I saw something coming out of the Count's window. I drew back and watched carefully, and saw the whole man emerge. It was a new shock to me to find that he had on the suit of clothes which I had worn whilst travelling here, and slung over his shoulder the terrible bag which I had seen the women take away. There could be no doubt as to his quest, and in my garb, too! This, then, is his new scheme of evil, that he will allow others to see me, as they think, so that he may both leave evidence that I have been seen in the towns or villages posting my own letters, and that any wickedness which he may do shall by the local people be attributed to me.
It makes me rage to think that this can go on, and whilst I am shut up here, a veritable prisoner, but without that protection of the law which is even a criminal's right and consolation. I thought I would watch for the Count's return, and for a long time sat doggedly at the window. Then I began to notice that there were some quaint little specks floating in the rays of the moonlight. They were like the tiniest grains of dust, and they whirled round and gathered in clusters in a nebulous sort of way. I watched them with a sense of soothing, and a sort of calm stole over me. I leaned back in the embrasure in a more comfortable position, so that I could enjoy more fully the aerial gambolling.
Something made me start up, a low, piteous howling of dogs somewhere far below in the valley, which was hidden from my sight. Louder it seemed to ring in my ears, and the floating moats of dust to take new shapes to the sound as they danced in the moonlight. I felt myself struggling to awake to some call of my instincts. Nay, my very soul was struggling, and my half-remembered sensibilities were striving to answer the call. I was becoming hypnotised! Quicker and quicker danced the dust. The moonbeams seemed to quiver as they went by me into the mass of gloom beyond. More and more they gathered till they seemed to take dim phantom shapes. And then I started, broad awake and in full possession of my senses, and ran screaming from the place. The phantom shapes, which were becoming gradually materialised from the moonbeams, were those three ghostly women to whom I was doomed. I fled, and felt somewhat safer in my own room, where there was no moonlight, and where the lamp was burning brightly.
Translation - Spanish 24 de junio.- Anoche, el Conde se retiró temprano a encerrarse en su habitación. Apenas reunido el coraje necesario, subí corriendo la escalera de caracol, y miré por la ventana orientada hacia el sur. Decidí vigilar al Conde, pues sé que algo sucede. Los gitanos están acuartelados en algún lugar del castillo y haciendo algún trabajo. Esto lo sé, pues de vez en cuando logro oír un ruido como de picos y palas, lejano y apagado, y pese a ignorar su naturaleza, sé que son señales de algún fin nefasto.
Llevaba vigilando la ventana del Conde poco menos de media hora cuando vi algo saliendo de esta. Retrocedí y observé con atención; era el mismísimo Conde, saliendo de su ventana. Me sorprendí al ver que tenía puesto el traje con el que yo había llegado al castillo, y que llevaba colgada sobre el hombro la horrible bolsa que las mujeres se habían llevado. No cabía duda sobre cuál era su propósito, ¡y además vestido con mi traje! Este debe ser su nuevo plan maligno: se dejará ver por otros, quienes creerán haberme visto, quedando así evidencia de que he echado al correo mis propias cartas en distintos pueblos y aldeas, y además haciendo que se atribuya a mi persona cualquier maldad que él llegase a hacer.
Me enfurece pensar que esto esté sucediendo mientras yo estoy aquí, hecho prácticamente un prisionero, mas careciendo de la protección de la ley que hasta un prisionero goza, y que es su derecho y consuelo. Decidí esperar el regreso del Conde, y me senté tenazmente a la ventana durante un largo rato. De pronto, comencé a notar unas curiosas partículas flotando en la luz de la luna. Parecían ínfimas motas de polvo, las que se arremolinaban y se ordenaban, logrando unas formas vagamente nebulosas. Las observé, sintiendo cómo una especie de calma se apoderaba de mí. Luego me recliné, buscando una posición en la que pudiese disfrutar más plenamente aquella danza aérea.
Algo me sobresaltó; los aullidos sordos y lastimeros de unos perros en algún lugar lejano del valle, oculto a la vista. Sonaban cada vez más fuerte, mientras las motas de polvo flotantes tomaban nuevas formas, danzando al ritmo de los aullidos bajo la luz de la luna. Sentí dentro de mí una lucha por despertar a una llamada de mis instintos. No, más bien era mi propia alma la que luchaba, y mis sensaciones adormecidas eran las que querían despertar. ¡Estaba siendo hipnotizado! El polvo bailaba cada vez más rápido. Los rayos de luna parecían estremecerse cerca mío, antes de llegar a la oscuridad. Siguieron juntándose y juntándose, hasta tomar unas vagas formas fantasmales. Desperté y, ya habiendo recuperado el control sobre mi cuerpo, salí de ahí corriendo y gritando. Las formas fantasmales, que se habían materializado a partir de los rayos de la luna, eran las de aquellas tres mujeres a las que mi destino estaba condenado. Huí de aquel lugar, sintiéndome más seguro en mi propia habitación, a la que no alcanzaba la luz de la luna, y en donde ardía fulgurosa mi lámpara.
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