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Frontiers in Nutrition, 2023 IntroductionAlthough waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) has established association with cardiometabolic disease, the trend of changes in elevated WHtR among general population have not been examined adequately.MethodsThis study examined the prevalence of ...
Bo Yang +10 more
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Association between the triglyceride glucose-waist-to-height ratio and stroke risk among middle-aged and elderly Chinese adults [PDF]
BMC Endocrine DisordersObjective The correlation between the triglyceride glucose-waist-to-height ratio (TyG-WHtR) and the risk of stroke has not been extensively explored.
Jian Yang, Jie Liu, Zhongyao Liu
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Waist‐to‐height ratio and renal dysfunction as independent correlates of low handgrip strength in patients with type 2 diabetes [PDF]
Journal of Diabetes InvestigationIntroduction Handgrip strength (HGS) is a key indicator of functional decline. We investigated whether central adiposity (waist‐to‐height ratio, WHtR) and renal dysfunction independently or additively correlate with low HGS across body mass index (BMI ...
Shing‐Hua Chen +4 more
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Associations of changes in waist-to-height ratio with all-cause mortality among Chinese older adults: a national cohort study [PDF]
Frontiers in NutritionBackgroundWaist-to-height ratio, as an anthropometric indicator, is considered a valid tool for assessing the health status of older adults. However, little is known about the associations between changes in waist-to-height ratio and all-cause mortality ...
Juanxia Miao +6 more
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Comparison of 3D laser-based photonic scans and manual anthropometric measurements of body size and shape in a validation study of 123 young Swiss men [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 Background Manual anthropometric measurements are time-consuming and challenging to perform within acceptable intra- and inter-individual error margins in large studies.
Nikola Koepke +6 more
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Obesity and overall mortality: findings from the Jackson Heart Study
BMC Public Health, 2021 Background Overall mortality has been reported to be lower among individuals classified as overweight/obese when compared with their normal weight counterparts (“obesity paradox”) when obesity classification is based on the body mass index (BMI).
Yuan-I Min +4 more
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Revista Paulista de Pediatria, 2020 Objective: To identify the prevalence of overweight in adolescents according to different classification criteria for obesity and somatic maturation stages.
Augusto Gerhart Folmann +3 more
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South African Journal of Psychiatry, 2022 Background: The use of antipsychotic medication, particularly second generation antipsychotics (SGAs) is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease in people with severe mental illness (SMI). Few studies have compared body measures of people with SMI
Maseqhala P. Nkondo-Ndaba +3 more
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Correlation between psoriasis' severity and waist-to-height ratio [PDF]
Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia, 2014 In the absence of ideal biomarkers, the research for clinical markers correlated to the severity of psoriasis and/or its comorbidities becomes crucial. Recently, studies have shown positive correlation between body mass index and prevalence and severity ...
Gleison Vieira Duarte +1 more
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International Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2015 Background: Several measures of adiposity have been used for predicting diabetes. The results of studies regarding superiority of waist circumference (WC) to body mass index (BMI) are inconsistent.
Karimollah Hajian-Tilaki, Bezad Heidari
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