scholarly journals Measures of Obesity Associated with Asthma Diagnosis in Ethnic Minority Children

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nita Vangeepuram ◽  
Susan L. Teitelbaum ◽  
Maida P. Galvez ◽  
Barbara Brenner ◽  
John Doucette ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Body Fat ◽  
Fat Distribution ◽  
The Body ◽  
Percent Body Fat ◽  
Asthma Diagnosis ◽  
Minority Children ◽  
Study Objective ◽  
Ethnic Minority Children

Objective. The study objective was to examine relationships between different body size measurements and asthma in ethnic minority children.Methods. We used data from a community-based study of 505 children aged 6-to-8 years old to study the association of percent body fat, fat distribution, and BMI percentile with asthma diagnosis. Poisson regression models were used to compute prevalence ratios (PRs) for sex-specific quintiles of the body fat measures on the main outcome of asthma.Results. When comparing the highest quintile of each body fat measure to the combined lowest two quintiles, higher body mass index percentile, percent body fat, and waist circumference all were associated with a higher likelihood of physician-diagnosed asthma (PR = 1.63 (95% CI 1.12–2.39), 1.50 (95% CI 1.02–2.21), and 1.56 (95% CI 1.04–2.34), resp.).Conclusions. This study found a significant association between increased body size and asthma diagnosis, regardless of the measurement examined.

scholarly journals Putting Arendt, Bakhtin and atmosphere to work: Exploring different paths concerning the language development of multilingual children

2020 ◽  
pp. 146394912092589
Author(s):  
Katrine Giæver ◽  
Liz Jones
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
The Body ◽  
Philosophical Work ◽  
Minority Children ◽  
Doctoral Studies ◽  
Universal Principles ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Ethnic Minority Children ◽  
The Mind

The aim of this article is to illustrate the potential of ‘atmosphere’ in order to consider more inventive ways of developing the language of young Norwegian ethnic minority children. The article draws on ethnographic data that emerged from doctoral studies. The analysis of the data draws on aspects of Arendt’s philosophical work and Bakhtin’s theorizations concerning language. It is these theoretical frames, together with theorizations concerning atmosphere, that allow one to ask different questions in relation to language development. It is by attempting to address these questions that different pedagogical paths begin to emerge. However, the article argues that in order to take such paths, there is a need to suspend certain universal principles, including privileging the mind over the body and the logical over the non-logical.

The Schooling of Ethnic Minority Children: Commentary

2001 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol A. Wong ◽  
Stephanie Johnson Rowley
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Minority Children ◽  
Ethnic Minority Children

Televisions in the Bedrooms of Racial/Ethnic Minority Children: How Did They Get There and How Do We Get Them Out?

2009 ◽  
Vol 48 (7) ◽  
pp. 715-719 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elsie M. Taveras ◽  
Katherine H. Hohman ◽  
Sarah Price ◽  
Steven L. Gortmaker ◽  
Kendrin Sonneville
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Minority Children ◽  
Ethnic Minority Children ◽  
Racial Ethnic

scholarly journals The Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN): Adding Kam to MAIN

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 147-151
Author(s):  
Wenchun Yang ◽  
Angel Chan ◽  
Natalia Gagarina
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Assessment Instrument ◽  
Narrative Development ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Minority Children ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Ethnic Minority Children ◽  
Minority People

This paper introduces the Kam version of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (LITMUS-MAIN). Kam is a minority language in southern China which belongs to the Kam-Tai language family and is spoken by the Kam ethnic minority people. Adding Kam to MAIN not only enriches the typological diversity of MAIN but also allows researchers to study children’s narrative development in a sociocultural context vastly distinctly different from the frequently examined WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) societies. Moreover, many Kam- speaking children are bilingual ethnic minority children who are “left-behind” children living in Mainland China, growing up in a unique socio-communicative environment.

VALIDITY OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC SCANNING TECHNIQUE FOR ESTIMATING PERCENT BODY FAT

2013 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
K. SHITARA ◽  
H. KANEHISA ◽  
T. FUKUNAGA ◽  
T. YANAI ◽  
Y. KAWAKAMI
Keyword(s):  
Body Fat ◽  
Lung Volume ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
The Body ◽  
Percent Body Fat ◽  
Body Volume ◽  
Mean Values ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Human Body Surface ◽  
Estimated Error

Background:Three-dimensional photonic scanning (3DPS) was recently developed to measuredimensions of a human body surface. Objective:The purpose of this study was to explore the validity of bodyvolume measured by 3DPS for estimating the percent body fat (%fat). Design, setting, participants, andmeasurement:The body volumes were determined by 3DPS in 52 women. The body volume was corrected forresidual lung volume. The %fat was estimated from body density and compared with the corresponding referencevalue determined by the dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA). Results:No significant difference was foundfor the mean values of %fat obtained by 3DPS (22.2 ± 7.6%) and DXA (23.5 ± 4.9%). The root mean squareerror of %fat between 3DPS and reference technique was 6.0%. For each body segment, there was a significantpositive correlation between 3DPS- and DXA-values, although the corresponding value for the head was slightlylarger in 3DPS than in DXA. Residual lung volume was negatively correlated with the estimated error in %fat.Conclusions:The body volume determined with 3DPS is potentially useful for estimating %fat. A possiblestrategy for enhancing the measurement accuracy of %fat might be to refine the protocol for preparing thesubject’s hair prior to scanning and to improve the accuracy in the measurement of residual lung volume.

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