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The Association of Metabolic Syndrome Components with Anthropometric Measurements [PDF]
Eurasian Journal of Family Medicine, 2021 Aim: This study aims to research the association of metabolic syndrome components with anthropometric measurements like arm circumference, neck circumference, hip circumference, waist- hip ratio, and waist-to-height ratio, which are applied rarely ...
Cagla Ozdemir +2 more
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Biomedicines, 2022 Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is associated with several other metabolic disorders, which are typically pro-inflammatory states. Body fat content is an important marker of metabolic health and abdominal fat is associated with harmful ...
Marta Borges-Canha +17 more
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High Sensitive C-reactive Protein Level in Relation to Increased Body Mass Index among Non-diabetic Non-hypertensive Women [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2021 Introduction: An increased Body Mass Index (BMI) has an adverse effect on the socio-economic and healthcare sectors and may influence metabolic status. High sensitivity C-reactive Protein (hs-CRP) is an emerging biomarker.
Ghada A Elfadil +3 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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Jurnal Kedokteran Diponegoro, 2022 It is imperative to improve Indonesia's achievement in sprint category using an indicator according to talent scouting. The running speed of those with excessive body fat is slower. The distribution of body fat, especially in the area of abdomen and hip,
Niken Ayu Dewi Masitoh +3 more
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The Comparative Study of Obesity among Mothers with Different Ethnic Groups in Northern IRAN [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2007 "nBackground: To evaluate the prevalence of obesity and some related factors in the villages around Gorgan which is a multi-racial and capital city of Golestan Province, northern Iran. "nMethods: This was a cross-sectional study with 2854 women
GR Veghari, AR Mansourian
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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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Waist-to-hip measurement ratio among dental students in urban areas
National Journal of Physiology, Pharmacy and Pharmacology, 2018 Background: Waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) is an anthropometric measure commonly used to characterize regional adiposity. WHR is a crude estimate of the relative amount of abdominal fat: Higher the hip girth compared to waist girth, the greater the proportion ...
Aishwaryah Ravishankar +2 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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