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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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Influence of body fat on heart rate variability in healthy females

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association
Objective: To evaluate the effect of central obesity indices in healthy females on cardiac autonomic activity, using heart rate variability as an index reflecting the cardiac autonomic balance.
Hiba Salih Mahdi Al-Khassaki, Bassam Talib Al-Galani   +1 more
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Assessment of adiponectin level in obese and lean Nepalese population and its possible correlation with lipid profile: A cross-sectional study

Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2013
Objective: Adiponectin- one of the most important adipokines plays a pivotal role in carbohydrate and lipid metabolism and vascular biology. Changing food trend and lifestyle has tremendously affected the health status of Nepalese population.
Hem K Tamang, Uddhav Timilsina, Khelanand P Singh, Sanjit Shrestha, Bishal Pandey, Sameer Basnet, Binod Waiba, Umang Shrestha   +7 more
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Body mass index a better predictor of insulin resistance than waist circumference in normoglycemics [PDF]

Al Ameen Journal of Medical Sciences, 2015
Background: Body Mass Index (BMI) is the most common method of measuring obesity. Many studies have reported that waist circumference is a stronger predictor of insulin resistance in non-type 2 diabetes.
B.L. Preethi, K.M. Prasannakumar, Vijay Culmalgae   +2 more
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Sex Differences in the Association Between Measures of General and Central Adiposity and the Risk of Myocardial Infarction: Results From the UK Biobank

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2018
BackgroundThere are substantial differences in the distribution of adipose tissue between women and men. We assessed the sex‐specific relationships and their differences between measures of general and central adiposity and the risk of incident ...
Sanne A. E. Peters, Sophie H. Bots, Mark Woodward   +2 more
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Waist hip ratio: an anatomical predictive marker of risk of PCOS

International Journal of Reproduction, Contraception, Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2019
Background: Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is one of the most common endocrine disorders seen in infertility clinic of Gynae OPD. It is basically is disease of metabolic disorder and requires ultrasound and hormonal assay for its diagnosis.Methods: The study was carried out in the GOPD of MGM medical College and M.Y.
Sumitra Yadav, Ritu Tarware
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Predictive Values of Anthropometric Measurements for Cardiometabolic Risk Factors and Cardiovascular Diseases Among 44 048 Chinese

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2019
Background The predictive value of adiposity indices and the newly developed index for cardiometabolic risk factors and cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) remains unclear in the Chinese population.
Jia Liu, Lap Ah Tse, Zhiguang Liu, Sumathy Rangarajan, Bo Hu, Lu Yin, Darryl P. Leong, Wei Li   +7 more
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Indicators Of Nutritional Status Among MBBS Students in A Tertiary Care Centre, Indore

National Journal of Community Medicine, 2016
Introduction- BMI can be used to estimate the prevalence of overweight and obesity within a population. It does not, however, account for the wide variations in obesity between different individuals and populations.
Madhuri Inamdar, Richa Nigam, Ashfaq Modiwala, Sonia Tiwari, Varsha Singh, Rajshekhar R Wavare   +5 more
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Waist-hip ratio is superior to BMI in predicting liver-related outcomes and synergizes with harmful alcohol use. [PDF]

Commun Med (Lond), 2023
Åberg F, Färkkilä M, Salomaa V, Jula A, Männistö S, Perola M, Lundqvist A, Männistö V.   +7 more
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PROFILE OF METABOLIC SYNDROME COMPONENTS IN OBESE ADOLESCENTS: STUNTING VS. NON-STUNTING

The Indonesian Journal of Public Health
Introduction: Stunted children are more likely to become obese, with a prevalence of 1.33% in children under the age of five. Aims: To evaluate the metabolic syndrome (MetS) profile in overweight/obese adolescents who are either stunted or not, and to ...
Muhammad Harits, Nur Aisiyah Widjaja, Meity Ardiana   +2 more
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