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Barbara A. Gower
Researcher at University of Alabama at Birmingham
Publications - 327
Citations - 13916
Barbara A. Gower is an academic researcher from University of Alabama at Birmingham. The author has contributed to research in topics: Insulin & Insulin resistance. The author has an hindex of 59, co-authored 311 publications receiving 12520 citations. Previous affiliations of Barbara A. Gower include University of Alabama & University of Utah.
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Effects of Gender, Ethnicity, Body Composition, and Fat Distribution on Serum Leptin Concentrations in Children*
Tim R. Nagy,Barbara A. Gower,Christina A. Trowbridge,Carl Dezenberg,Richard M. Shewchuk,Michael I. Goran +5 more
TL;DR: Results showed that gender differences in serum leptin concentrations could not be fully explained by differences in body mass index, total fat mass, or relative body composition, but when adjusted for differences inrelative body composition and body fat distribution, gender no longer had an independent effect on the serum leptin concentration.
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Visceral fat in white and African American prepubertal children.
Michael I. Goran,Tim R. Nagy,Margarita S. Treuth,Christina A. Trowbridge,Carl Dezenberg,A McGloin,Barbara A. Gower +6 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that in children there is wide variation in visceral fatness and IAAT relative to SAAT is an index of visceral fat, independent of FM, allowing examination of the unique effects of IAAT.
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Longitudinal changes in insulin sensitivity, insulin secretion, and β-cell function during puberty
Geoff D.C. Ball,Terry T.-K. Huang,Barbara A. Gower,Martha L. Cruz,Gabriel Q. Shaibi,Marc J. Weigensberg,Michael I. Goran +6 more
TL;DR: White and black youth exhibited transient insulin resistance and diminished AIRg during puberty and the progressive decline in DI among blacks versus whites may reflect a unique effect of puberty on beta-cell compensation in blacks.
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Defining Health‐Related Obesity in Prepubertal Children
TL;DR: The cut-points describe an adequate health-related definition of childhood obesity and indicate that children with > or =33% body fat and children with a waist circumference> or =71 cm were more likely to possess an adverse CVD risk-Factor profile than a normal risk-factor profile.
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Longitudinal changes in fatness in white children: no effect of childhood energy expenditure
Michael I. Goran,Richard M. Shewchuk,Barbara A. Gower,Tim R. Nagy,William H Carpenter,Rachel K. Johnson +5 more
TL;DR: The main predictors of change in FM relative to FFM during preadolescent growth are sex, initial fatness, and parentalFatness, but not reduced energy expenditure, while none of the components of energy expenditure were inversely related to change inFM.