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Comparison of Anthropometric Measurements that Effectively Associated with Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease [PDF]
National Journal of Laboratory Medicine, 2015 Objective: To find an anthropometric indicator that can effectively be associated with Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD). Materials and Methods: This cross sectional study was conducted in PSGIMSR, Coimbatore.
K. Deepalakshmi +3 more
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BMJ Open, 2021 Objectives The burden of hypertension is increasing in low-income countries, including Ethiopia. Obesity is widely known to be associated with hypertension, but different anthropometric indices of obesity might differ in association with hypertension ...
Hiroshi Yatsuya +5 more
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Waist hip ratio as predictor of incident diabetes in young adults
Indian Journal of Clinical Anatomy and Physiology, 2020 Obesity is associated with impaired glucose tolerance which is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Central obesity (approximated by waist/hip ratio) is more informative than general obesity (body mass index). Thus, central obesity markers can be used to predict diabetes.
Sonia Singh, Sanju Acharya
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Journal of International Medical ResearchObjective To evaluate how body mass index, waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, and waist-to-height ratio reflect visceral adipose tissue as measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry and how these associations differ by sex and age in a Qatari ...
Rawan Ajeen +5 more
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Anthropometric measures and blood pressure of Greenlandic preschool children
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2021 The study aims to describe anthropometric data of Greenlandic preschool children, blood pressure (BP) measures and effects of maternal smoking during pregnancy in a follow-up of the ACCEPT birth cohort.
Magnus Kok Grouleff +6 more
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Frontiers in Public HealthPurposeThis study aimed to evaluate the effect of a short-term incentivized walking intervention on chronic disease indicators in an occupational cohort, thereby exploring effective strategies for chronic disease prevention and control.MethodsIn a 100 ...
Xiangju Hu +6 more
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Randomized controlled trial testing weight loss and abdominal obesity outcomes of moxibustion
BioMedical Engineering OnLine, 2018 Background The purpose of this study was to investigate the efficacy of moxibustion therapy on weight loss, waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio in young adult females. An experimental design, 51 Asian females were enrolled.
Ching-Hsiu Hsieh +3 more
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Journal of Obesity, 2013 Aim. The aim was to compare body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), waist hip ratio (WHR), and waist height ratio (WHtR) to identify the best predictor of metabolic syndrome (MetS) among Qatari adult population. Methods. A cross-sectional survey
Abdulbari Bener +5 more
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National Journal of Physiology, Pharmacy and Pharmacology, 2015 Background: Waist circumference (WC) (abdominal girth), a measure of both subcutaneous and visceral fats, is easily measured and also correlated with body frame size. Waist circumference (WC) and waisthip ratio (WHR), but not body mass index (BMI), have
Sharanjit Kaur +2 more
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AcTion: Aceh Nutrition Journal, 2016 Based on data from the Indonesian health profile 2011 for the province of Aceh alone prevalence of nutritional status of the adult population (> 18 years) are overweight get into the top ten highest in Indonesia, namely by 10.9% and 13.4% were obese ...
Yulia Fitri +3 more
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