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Association Between Sleep Characteristics and Anthropometric Indices Among Adults: A Cross‐Sectional Study From the PERSIAN Guilan Cohort Study

Health Science Reports
Background and Aims Sleep characteristics have been increasingly recognized as important determinants of obesity and metabolic health. This study aimed to investigate the association between sleep characteristics and obesity indices among adults ...
Niloufar Nezhadrekabi, Masoome Aghaei, Adeleh Isanazr, Soheil Hassanipour, Mohammadreza Naghipour, Sara yeganeh, Farahnaz Joukar, Fariborz Mansour‐Ghanaei   +7 more
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Television watching from adolescence to adulthood and its association with BMI, waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio and obesity: a longitudinal study

, 2013
Objective: To examine the prospective association of television (TV) watching from adolescence to young adulthood with BMI, waist circumference (WC), waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) and ...
Mamun, Abdullah A., Najman, Jake M., O'Callaghan, Michael J., Williams, Gail   +3 more
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A COMPARISON OF WAIST-TO-HEIGHT RATIO, BMI, AND WAIST-TO-HIP RATIO

, 2019
Body composition is a measure of the proportion of fat-free versus fat mass and is an important component of general health and wellness. As obesity rates continue to become more prevalent, more non-invasive methods for measuring body composition are ...
Moore, Ayunna
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Waist-to-height ratio is a better predictor of hypertension in women during recovery from anesthesia compared to BMI, waist-to-hip ratio, and waist circumference

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This was an observational study of patients with benign breast tumors intended to investigate and compare the predictive value of body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) for hypertension
Qinqin Cao, Chengjuan Fan, Yufen Fei, Shouxin Zhang, Tong Shen, Haihong Meng   +5 more
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The association between graded physical activity in postmenopausal British women, and the prevalence and incidence of hip and wrist fractures.

, 2010
BACKGROUND: physical activity is promoted for older women as a means of maintaining health and avoiding falls and fractures. Findings relating physical activity of older women to risk of falls and fracture are contradictory. The association between level
C. Carson, S. Ebrahim, Gregson, Celia L, Ebrahim, Shah, C. Gregson, A. Amuzu, Carson, Claire, Amuzu, Antoinette, Ebrahim, Shah B J, Amuzu, A, Gregson, CL, C. L. Gregson, Carson, C   +12 more
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Waist-Hip Ratio and Body Mass Index Among Patients with Hypertension in Aceh, Indonesia

, 2021
Background: Hypertension is a chronic disease that can be associated with obesity and overweight. Measurement of waist-hip ratio (WHR) needs to be done to determine central obesity.
Sofia, S. (Sofia), Idayati, R. (Ratna ), Nurjannah, N. (Nurjannah)   +2 more
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Supplementary Material for: Age- and Sex-Related Percentiles of Skinfold Thickness, Waist and Hip Circumference, Waist-to-Hip Ratio and Waist-to-Height Ratio: Results from a Population-Based Pediatric Cohort in Germany (LIFE Child)

, 2019
Background: Skinfold thickness (ST), waist circumference (WC) and hip circumference (HC) measurements are simple methods for assessing fat tissue at defined body parts.
Bussler S. (6255206), Grafe N. (6255209), Jurkutat A. (6255212), Schlingmann M. (6255215), Vogel M. (4144522), Kiess W. (3906184), Rönnecke E. (6255203), Koerner A. (6255218)   +7 more
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Waist-hip ratio and mortality in heart failure; contradicting the obesity paradox

, 2018
Aims: A higher body mass index (BMI) is associated with better survival in heart failure (HF) patients, also known as the obesity paradox. However, BMI does not account for body composition.
John G. Cleland (6718451), Piotr Ponikowski (357519), Stefan D. Anker (7706276), Faiez Zannad (446278), Chim C. Lang (7706279), Marco Metra (300433), Leong L. Ng (7162769), Nilesh J. Samani (7579793), Peter Van der Meer (6807437), Hans L. Hillege (7706285), Kevin Damman (7749608), Aeilko H. Zwinderman (7714640), Gerasimos Filippatos (5926139), Adriaan A. Voors (7423166), Kenneth Dickstein (292849), Dirk J. Van Veldhuisen (7773425), Koen W. Streng (7749602)   +16 more
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Waist‐to‐hip ratio is a better predictor than body mass index for morbidity in abdominally based breast reconstruction

, 2018
BACKGROUND: Body mass index is a universally recognized measure of obesity. However, it does not take body fat distribution (BFD) into account, which has been established as a significant risk factor in both medicine and surgery.
Jordan, Sumanas W, Hodson, Trevor, Trevor Hodson, Chao, Albert H, Sumanas W. Jordan, Albert H. Chao, Peter S. Wu, Wu, Peter S   +7 more
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Incentivized walking improves chronic disease indicators: a short-term field intervention among an occupational population in Southeast China

Frontiers in Public Health
PurposeThis study aimed to evaluate the effect of a short-term incentivized walking intervention on chronic disease indicators in an occupational cohort, thereby exploring effective strategies for chronic disease prevention and control.MethodsIn a 100 ...
Xiangju Hu, Xiangju Hu, Menglin Yu, Zhifeng Lin, Minxia Wu, Zhijian Hu, Zhijian Hu   +6 more
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