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Predicting cardiometabolic risk: waist-to-height ratio or BMI. A meta-analysis
Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity, 2013 Savvas C Savva,1 Demetris Lamnisos,2 Anthony Kafatos3 1Research and Education Institute of Child Health, Strovolos, Cyprus; 2Department of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus; 3Preventive Medicine and ...
Savva SC, Lamnisos D, Kafatos AG
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A new waist-to-height ratio predicts abdominal adiposity in adults [PDF]
Research in Sports Medicine, 2018 Our aim was to identify the best anthropometric index associated with waist adiposity. The six weight-status indices included body mass index (BMI), waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), waist-to-height ratio (WHTR), and a new waist-by-height0.5 ratio (WHT.5R). The association between three waist skinfolds and the six anthropometric indices was conducted using ...
Alan M. Nevill +3 more
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Waist-to-height ratio assessment device [PDF]
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE), 2023 Many diseases are associated with excess abdominal fat like cardiovascular diseases. Monitoring and controlling abdominal fat led to one of the many factors that can change the status of a person’s health. Awareness of the waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) can be a guide to adjusting to a person’s lifestyle and maintaining a normal WHtR value.
Ertie Abana +4 more
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Simplifying the screening of abdominal adiposity in Chinese children with waist‐to‐height ratio [PDF]
American Journal of Human Biology, 2016 AbstractObjectivesThe current age‐ and sex‐specific waist circumference (WC) reference for defining abdominal adiposity in Chinese children is quite complex. This study aimed to evaluate the optimal waist‐to‐height ratio (WHtR) thresholds based on the estimated WC references.MethodsA cross‐sectional analysis of data from 121,025 Chinese children aged 7–
Dong, Bin +5 more
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Waist circumference and waist-to-height ratio of Hong Kong Chinese children [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2008 Background Central body fat is a better predictor than overall body fat for cardiovascular (CV) risk factors in both adults and children. Waist circumference (WC) has been used as a proxy measure of central body fat.
Kwok Charlotte WL +8 more
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The ability of waist-to-height ratio to identify health risk
Revista de Saúde Pública, 2019 OBJECTIVE To evaluate the performance of the ratio between the waist circumference and the height in the identification of health risk compared with the correlation matrix between the anthropometric parameters body mass index and waist circumference ...
Márcia Mara Corrêa +4 more
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Waist-to-height ratio as index of cardiometabolic risk among the doctors [PDF]
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Journal, 2017 The aim of this study was to see the cardiometabolic risk among doctors using waist-to-height ratio index as tool. Cardiometabolic risk is an umbrella term that includes all the risk factors of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The study was conducted
Miliva Mozaffor +3 more
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Waist-to-height ratio and socio-demographic characteristics of Bangladeshi adults
IMC Journal of Medical Science, 2010 Anthropometric indicators of abdominal obesity are associated with cardiovascular risk factors, such as type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidemia. Controversy remains regarding the best anthropometric indices for cardiovascular risk.
Meerjady Sabrina Flora +2 more
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Waist‐to‐height ratio is the best indicator for undiagnosed Type 2 diabetes
Diabetic Medicine, 2013 AbstractAimsEarly detection of diabetes is important for the prevention of diabetic complications. The best adiposity index for indicating Type 2 diabetes mellitus remains unclear. We aimed to identify the optimal adiposity measure among BMI, waist circumference, waist–hip ratio and waist‐to‐height ratio to indicate undiagnosed Type 2 diabetes and ...
Z, Xu, X, Qi, A K, Dahl, W, Xu
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Percentile Curves for Body-Mass Index, Waist Circumference, Waist-To-Height Ratio and Waist-To-Height Ratio(Exp) in Croatian Adolescents [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019 Purpose: The main purpose of the present study was to establish percentile curves for body-mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) and WHtR(exp) in adolescents. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, we recruited 1036 secondary-school students aged 15 to 18 years from eight randomly selected schools (55.3% girls). BMI,
Martin Zvonar +2 more
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