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Changes in distributions of waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio and waist-to-height ratio over an 18-year period among Chinese adults: a longitudinal study using quantile regression

BMC Public Health, 2019
Background Little is known about the long-term shifts in distributions of three abdominal-obesity-related indicators, waist circumference (WC), waist-to-hip ratio (WHpR) and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) among Chinese adults.
Xiwen Qian, Chang Su, Bing Zhang, Guoyou Qin, Huijun Wang, Zhenyu Wu   +5 more
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Waist-to-height ratio is independently related to whole and central body fat, regardless of the waist circumference measurement protocol, in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease patients [PDF]

, 2016
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Pimenta N.M., Cortez-Pinto H., Melo X., Silva-Nunes J., Sardinha L.B. & Santa-Clara H. (2017) Waist-to-height ratio is independently related to whole and central body fat, regardless of the ...
Cortez-Pinto, Helena, Melo, Xavier, Pimenta, Nuno, Santa-Clara, Helena, Sardinha, Luís, Silva-Nunes, José   +5 more
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Is waist circumference a better predictor of diabetes than body mass index or waist-to-height ratio in Iranian adults?

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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Waist-to-height ratio and cardiometabolic risk factors in adolescence: findings from a prospective birth cohort [PDF]

, 2014
What is already known about this subject In adults, associations between body mass index (BMI), waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) and cardiometabolic outcomes are similar.
Baur, L.A., Cowell, C.T., Garnett, S.P., Graves, L., Lawlor, D.A., Ness, A., Sattar, N.   +6 more
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Waist circumference, waist‐to‐height ratio and BMI percentiles in children aged 5 to 19 years in India: A population‐based study

Obesity Science & Practice, 2021
Objective Nationally representative percentiles for waist circumference (WC), waist‐to‐height‐ratio (WHtR), and body mass index (BMI) are not available for children and adolescents in India.
Avina Sarna, Akash Porwal, Rajib Acharya, Sana Ashraf, Sowmya Ramesh, Nizamuddin Khan, Sikha Sinha, Harshpal Singh Sachdev   +7 more
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Association between adiposity and systemic atherosclerosis: a protocol of a cross-sectional autopsy study. [PDF]

, 2016
IntroductionAdiposity has been associated with atherosclerosis in clinical studies. However, few autopsy studies have investigated this association, and they had only examined the coronary artery disease. Moreover, most studies had small sample sizes and
Campos, Fernanda Marinho, Cuelho, Anderson, da Silva, Karen Cristina Souza, Farfel, José Marcelo, Farias, Daniela Souza, Ferretti-Rebustini, Renata Eloah de Lucena, Grinberg, Lea Tenenholz, Jacob-Filho, Wilson, Leite, Renata Elaine Paraízo, Nishizawa, Aline, Pasqualucci, Carlos Augusto, Suemoto, Claudia Kimie   +11 more
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Sociodemographic characteristics are associated with prevalence of high-risk waist circumference and high-risk waist-to-height ratio in U.S. adolescents

BMC Pediatrics, 2021
Background Adiposity status in adolescence is associated with various health outcomes in adulthood. Waist circumference [WC] and waist-to-height ratio [WHtR] are measures of abdominal obesity and have shown to be valid predictors of future chronic ...
Felicia J. Setiono, Laura A. Guerra, Cindy Leung, Tashara M. Leak   +3 more
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Muscularity and attractiveness as predictors of human egalitarianism [PDF]

, 2011
This is the post-print version of the final paper published in Personality and Individual Differences. The published article is available from the link below.
Baron-Cohen, Brewer, Brown, Burnham, Case, Croson, Darwin, Eckel, Eisenegger, Fan, Frederick, Grammer, Houston, James Dunn, Jinsheng Kang, Kunovich, Maisey, Messick, Michael E. Price, Mulford, Pratto, Pratto, Ritzman, Sell, Sian Hopkins, Sidanius, Singh, Singh, Solnick, Solnick, Swami, Takahashi, Trivers, Van Lange, Von Rueden, Zaatari   +35 more
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Predictive Value Waist-to-height Ratio, Waist-to-hip Ratio and Body Mass Index for Metabolic Syndrome [PDF]

Zhongguo quanke yixue
Background Metabolic syndrome (MS) significantly increases the risk of chronic diseases like cardiovascular diseases. Early screening and interventions for MS are crucial.
YIN Jiahui, YANG Xinhui, WANG Jingjing, ZHANG Yajing, WANG Lijuan, FU Zuodi, KONG Xiangshuang, GUO Guangxia, LI Yufeng
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Evaluation of waist-to-height ratio to predict 5 year cardiometabolic risk in sub-Saharan African adults [PDF]

, 2014
Simple, low-cost central obesity measures may help identify individuals with increased cardiometabolic disease risk, although it is unclear which measures perform best in African adults.
Fourie, C.M.T., Greeff, M., Huisman, H.W., Kruger, H. Salome, Kruger, I.M., Kruger, R., Rennie, Kirsten, Scheepers, J.D.W., Schutte, A.E., Schutte, R., Uys, A.S., Van Rooyen, J.M., Ware, L.J.   +12 more
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