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Associação da maturação sexual com excesso de peso e adiposidade corporal em escolares de 8 a 14 anos de Florianópolis/SC [PDF]

, 2014
Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Desportos, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Física, Florianópolis, 2014.Este estudo teve como objetivo analisar a associação da maturação sexual com o excesso de peso e a ...
Benedet, Jucemar
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Waist circumference is associated with pitch pattern sequence score in older male adults

, 2014
Objective: While obesity may increase the risk for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, the relationship between waist circumference (WC) and central auditory dysfunction is unknown.
劉殿楨 ;楊偉勛, Hwang, Juen-Haur;Chen, Jin-Cherng;Yang, Wei-Shiung;Liu, Tien-Chen   +1 more
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Is vulnerability to cardiometabolic disease in Indians mediated by abdominal adiposity or higher body adiposity. [PDF]

, 2014
BACKGROUND: Indians may be particularly vulnerable to cardiometabolic disease, potentially due to higher body fat for a given BMI, or a tendency towards depositing abdominal adiposity.
Davey-Smith, George, Gupta, Ruby, Kuper, Hannah, Wells, Jonathan, Krishna, Kankipati Vijay, Davey Smith, George, Krishna, Kankipati Vijay Radha, Kulkarni, Bharati, Prabhakaran, Dorairaj, Taylor, Amy, Ben-Shlomo, Yoav, Kinra, Sanjay, Ebrahim, Shah   +12 more
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Abdominal fat accumulation increases the risk of high blood pressure: evidence of 47,037 participants from Chinese and US national population surveys

Nutrition Journal
Aims This study aims to ascertain whether abdominal fat accumulation evaluated by waist circumference increases the risk of hypertension using the nationwide population.
Jin-Yu Sun, Zhenyang Su, Hui Shen, Yang Hua, Wei Sun, Xiang-Qing Kong   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Waist circumference: a waste of time?

Heart, 2010
To the editor: With great interest, we read the articles of a recent issue of Heart addressing the important role of abdominal obesity in relation to cardiovascular risk and the metabolic syndrome.1 2 The metabolic syndrome, considered the ailment of the 20th century, emerges from clustering and interactions of multiple cardiovascular risk factors ...
Groot, P.C.E. de, Thijssen, D.H.J., Hopman, M.T.E.   +2 more
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Prevalence of dysglycemia by waist circumference, stratified by sex.

, 2023
Fig 3A (men) and Fig 3B (women) demonstrate the prevalence of dysglycemia by age and waist circumference categories. This figure highlights the importance of age on dysglycemia for any given waist circumference category.
Johnathan A. Edwards (17295969), Frank Tanser (78333), Stephen Olivier (11410622), Urisha Singh (8858957), Susanne S. Hoeppner (14803406), Itai M. Magodoro (14047068), Alison C. Castle (14803403), Jennifer M. Manne-Goehler (17295966), Ingrid V. Bassett (9211694), Emily B. Wong (8858984), Mark J. Siedner (9230121)   +10 more
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Cardiometabolic Health and Risk of Breast Cancer Subtypes Among US Black Women

International Journal of Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the United States (US), cardiometabolic conditions and aggressive breast cancers are both more common among Black women than White women. Using data from 57,453 participants in the Black Women's Health Study (BWHS), we prospectively evaluated associations of body mass index (BMI), Type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and hypercholesterolemia with
Yifei Shan, Sarah M. Rothbard, Lynn Rosenberg, Julie R. Palmer, Mollie E. Barnard   +4 more
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Optimal waist circumference cut-off points for predicting metabolic syndrome among low-income black South African adults

BMC Research Notes, 2018
Objective Waist circumference has been identified as one of the strongest predictive tool for metabolic syndrome. This study determines the optimal cut-off point of waist circumference for metabolic syndrome among low-income earning South African black ...
Eyitayo Omolara Owolabi, Daniel Ter Goon, Oladele Vincent Adeniyi, Anthony Idowu Ajayi   +3 more
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Lifestyle Factors Associated With Colorectal Adenomas: Results From a Vietnamese Case–Control Study

International Journal of Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although colorectal cancer (CRC) is the fourth most common cancer in Vietnam, evidence on lifestyle factors associated with colorectal adenomas (CRA) remains limited. We conducted a case–control study to examine lifestyle factors associated with CRA.
Chi Thi‐Du Tran, Tuan Thanh Nguyen, Mo Thi Tran, Huong Thi‐Thu Pham, Hung Nguyen Luu, Xiao‐Ou Shu, Linh Cu Le   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Waist-related anthropometric measures: Simple and useful predictors of coronary heart disease in women

National Journal of Physiology, Pharmacy and Pharmacology, 2015
Background: Waist circumference (WC) (abdominal girth), a measure of both subcutaneous and visceral fats, is easily measured and also correlated with body frame size. Waist circumference (WC) and waist–hip ratio (WHR), but not body mass index (BMI), have
Sharanjit Kaur, Anand Sharma, Harinder Jot Singh   +2 more
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