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Correlation between body mass index and anthropometric indexes of abdominal obesity in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

open access: green, 2012
Soraia Pinheiro Machado   +3 more
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Anthropometric Indexes of Low-Income Brazilian Children

2012
Brazil is a very large country, with more than eight million square kilometers, and comprises five different regions with distinctive social and economic characteristics. This gives rise to considerable inter-regional disparities in the analysis of child health status.
Sylvia do Carmo Castro Franceschini   +4 more
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Simple anthropometric indexes and cardiovascular risk factors in Chinese

open access: yesInternational Journal of Obesity, 1997
Obesity is a major public health problem due to its associations with multiple cardiovascular risk factors. Although there are sophisticated methods, such as imaging, to document total body fat and its distributions, anthropometric measurements remain important in clinical practice.
G T, Ko   +9 more
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Comparisons of Various Anthropometric Indexes With Localized Stage II/III Periodontitis in Young Adults: The CHIEF Oral Health Study.

The Journal of Periodontology, 2020
BACKGROUND A J-shaped relationship of body mass index (BMI) with severe periodontitis has been reported. However, it is unknown for other anthropometric indexes in young adults. METHODS A cross-sectional study examined the relationships in 325 military
Kun-Zhe Tsai   +6 more
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Auriculocephalic index: A new anthropometric index for syndrome delineation

American Journal of Medical Genetics, 1995
AbstractWe describe a new anthropometric index, the “auriculocephalic index.” It results from the ratio between the length of auricle and the corresponding preauricular head height. The index is independent of sex and of age. Normally it ranges between 0.25 (−2s) and 0.33 (+2s).
L, Pelz, B, Stein
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Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome and anthropometric obesity indexes

Sleep and Breathing, 2011
The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the general body adiposity or regional adiposity was a risk factor in the evolution of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) by examining the relationships between the anthropometric obesity indexes such as waist (WC) and neck circumference index (NC), body mass index (BMI), and OSAS in Turkish ...
Soylu, Akin Cem   +5 more
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