"Concorso di idee ai fini della determinazione di un piano di recupero dell'area comprendente il centro storico di Mestre compendio Umberto I con costituzione di un "simbolo" per la città"

la Mostra, tenutasi al Centro Candiani, Mestre, documenta le proposte dei progetti presentati al concorso tra cui i progetti elaborati in ambito seminariale da docenti e dottorandi nel DRCA dell'Università IUAV di Venezia

Body Composition and Blood Pressures in School Children 6-14 Years of Age

The relationship between parameters of estimated body composition (FFM = fat free mass, FM = fat mass, %F = percentage fat) and blood pressure was examined in a sample of 1418 school-children (712 males, 706 females), 6-14 years of age from L'Aquila and its province (Abruzzo), Italy. Systolic and diastolic blood pressures increased from 6-14 years in both sexes (males: systolic pressure 93.08 ± 14.95 to 122.29 ± 13.27 mm Hg; diastolic pressure: 59.60 ± 11.60 to 74.83 ± 8.35 mm Hg; females: systolic pressure: 97.12 ± 13.16 to 120.56 ± 8.02 mm Hg; diastolic pressure: 61.93 ± 10.23 to 76.67 ± 4.85 mm Hg). FFM and FM estimated by anthropometry and bioelectrical impedance, exhibited similar growth trends (Anthropometry: in males, FFM: 20.55-47.20 kg and FM: 4.14-12.01 kg; in females, FFM: 19.95-41.90 kg and FM: 5.03-15.84 kg; Impedance: in males, FFM: 18.40-47.30 kg and FM: 6.26-11.91 kg; in females, FFM: 17.47-36.97 kg and FM: 7.61-20.77 kg). Correlations between body composition parameters and blood pressures were generally significant. In particular, there was a strong relationship between systolic blood pressure and both FM and %F, the correlations being higher when the body composition parameters were estimated by anthropometry. © 1997 Wiley-Liss, Inc

Prevalence of obesity in schoolchildren. Part 2: epidemiological study in secondary schools of L'Aquila

This epidemiological study showed a high prevalence of obesity (32,2%) in students of L'Aquila. The study has been carried out on 600 children attending secondary school (303 males and 297 females, age 10-14 year). All the subjects with excess > 20% than ideal body weight for sex and height (according to Tanner and Whitehouse) were considered obese. Our attention has been also given to the role of different factors of risk, connected to obesity. At last we have exterminated the characteristics of the Body Mass Index (BMI = weight/height2)