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Waist circumference as a determinant of hypertension and diabetes in Brazilian women: a population-based study. [PDF]
, 2004 OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the role of central adiposity, as evaluated by the measurement of waist circumference (WC), as an independent risk factor for hypertension and type 2 diabetes mellitus in the setting of a developing country.
Nacul, LC +5 more
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Waist and hip circumferences, and waist-hip ratio in 19 populations of the WHO MONICA Project [PDF]
International Journal of Obesity, 1999 To assess differences in waist and hip circumferences and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) measured using a standard protocol among populations with different prevalences of overweight. In addition, to quantify the associations of these anthropometric measures with age and degree of overweight.Cross-sectional study of random population samples.More than 32000 ...
Molarius, A +4 more
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Does endothelial dysfunction correlate better with waist-to-hip ratio than with body mass index or waist circumference among obese patients? [PDF]
Clinics, 2006 PURPOSE: Obesity is associated with cardiovascular disease, affecting large arteries and the microcirculation. Waist circumference and body mass index are routinely employed as measures for assessing obesity-related health risk, whereas waist-to-hip ...
Nivaldo Ribeiro Villela +4 more
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International Journal of Noncommunicable Diseases, 2018 Background: Children born as small for gestational age (SGA) tend to develop central adiposity and may have chances of developing metabolic syndrome. Waist–hip circumference ratio (WHR) is considered as a good indicator of central/truncal obesity.
Harvinder Kaur +2 more
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Adherence to an overweight and obesity treatment: how to motivate a patient? [PDF]
PeerJ, 2014 Objective. To explore anthropometric changes in normal-weight, overweight and obese subjects who did not dropout or fail a weight loss program over the 16 treatment weeks to improve patient motivation and treatment adherence.Methods.
Isaac Kuzmar +2 more
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Associations of asthma and smoking with hip circumference.
, 2023 Associations of asthma and smoking with hip circumference.
Saad A. Alhammad (14642416) +1 more
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Zdorovʹe Rebenka, 2021 Background. To examine the effects of sports participation in obese boys on body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, hip circumference, muscle strength, muscular endurance, balance and agility. Materials and methods.
Engin Dinç, Serdar Arslan
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, 2022 All feature set with Hip Circumference on the left column vs. the corresponding feature set with Hip Circumference removed on the right column.
Shamarina Shohaimi (665099) +8 more
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Neck and Wrist Circumferences Propose a Reliable Approach to Qualify Obesity and Insulin Resistance
Medicine Science, 2014 Objective of this study is to evaluate the association of neck circumference and wrist circumference with traditional abdominal and general obesity measurement parameters, insulin resistance, insulin resistance-related factors such as blood lipids ...
Banu Taskiran Tatar +8 more
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Maternal central obesity and birth size: a Mendelian randomization analysis
Lipids in Health and Disease, 2018 Background Observational studies have illustrated that maternal central obesity is associated with birth size, including of birth weight, birth length and head circumference, but the causal nature of these associations remains unclear. Our study aimed to
Ting-Ting Geng, Tao Huang
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