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Archives of Anesthesia and Critical Care, 2021 Background: The incidence of unanticipated difficult airway is 14.3-17.5% in obese. Preoperative difficult airway prediction is important to avoid postoperative morbidity and mortality. USG guided measurement of anterior neck soft tissue thickness can be
Saumya Jain, Nisha kachru, Rupesh Yadav
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Correlation of neck and wrist circumference with waist circumference
Journal of Advances in Internal Medicine, 2015 Background and aims: Body mass index, waist and hip circumference have been using for measurement of obesity, however practically it’s difficult to get these measures accurately because of the various reasons, so an alternative to this could be neck and wrist circumference measurement. As there is scarce report on such anthropometric studies from Nepal,
A.R. Devkota +4 more
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Neck circumference as a potential marker of metabolic syndrome among college students
Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, 2014 OBJECTIVE: to relate neck circumference with metabolic syndrome and its criteria among college students.METHOD: cross-sectional study conducted with 702 college students in Fortaleza, CE, Brazil from September 2010 to June 2011.
Dayse Christina Rodrigues Pereira +5 more
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Bigger Necks Are Not Enough: An Examination of Neck Circumference in Incoming College Athletes [PDF]
The Journal of Primary Prevention, 2020 Neck circumference is quick and simple to measure and thus an attractive proxy of neck strength, a putative mechanism underlying risk of sport-related concussion (SRC). Research, however, is limited on the relationship of neck circumference to SRC.
Carrie Esopenko +7 more
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Neck Circumference May Be a Better Alternative to Standard Anthropometric Measures
Journal of Diabetes Research, 2016 This paper evaluates neck circumference as a metabolic risk marker. Overweight/obese, nondiabetic Hispanics, 40–65 years old, who are free of major cardiovascular diseases, were recruited for the San Juan Overweight Adults Longitudinal Study (SOALS ...
Kaumudi Joshipura +4 more
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The relationship between neck circumference and gestational diabetes mellitus in Iranian women
Clinical Diabetes and Endocrinology, 2021 Background The aim of the present study was to assess the relationship between neck circumference and gestational diabetes. Methods This prospective study was conducted on 372 Iranian pregnant women.
Tahoora Sedighi Barforoush +4 more
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Assessment of Neck Characteristics for Laryngeal Mask Airway Size Selection in Patients Who Underwent an Elective Ocular Surgery; A Cross-Sectional Study [PDF]
Bulletin of Emergency and Trauma, 2022 Objective: To investigate the neck features for laryngeal mask airway (LMA) size selection. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 160 patients referred for elective surgeries to Feiz Hospital affiliated with Isfahan University of Medical ...
Omid Aghadavoudi +3 more
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Measurement of some body parts of muscovy duck (Carina moschata) at age 3 weeks old fed by pellet feed under an intensive farming system [PDF]
BIO Web of Conferences, 2023 This study was aimed to measure and determine the size of some body parts of the muscovy duck (Carina moschata) and their relationship with body weight.
Pratama Firmansyah Budi +2 more
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Neck circumference as an anthropometric measure of obesity in diabetics
North American Journal of Medical Sciences, 2013 Obesity is a risk factor for type 2 diabetes mellitus. Insulin resistance is associated with visceral subcutaneous fat content. Neck circumference (NC) is a marker of upper body subcutaneous adipose tissue distribution.The aim of this study is to compare NC in diabetics and non-diabetics and to correlate NC with other anthropometric measures.A cross ...
Aswathappa, Jagadamba +3 more
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Elevated neck circumference and associated factors in adolescents [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2015 Upper body subcutaneous fat, estimated by neck circumference (NC), may present greater metabolic risk than visceral fat. The aim of this study was to determine cutoff values for NC in adolescents that identify overweight and obesity, the prevalence of elevated NC, and its association with associated factors.Cross-sectional study with adolescents from ...
Ferretti, Roberta de Lucena +4 more
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