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Waist circumference and cardiovascular risk.

Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien, 2004
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Orgasm and women's waist circumference

European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, 2014
Given that adiposity is related to poorer female sexual function, among many other health problems, the present study aimed at testing the hypothesis that larger waist circumference, an index of subcutaneous and abdominal fat mass, is associated with lack of specifically vaginal orgasm.
Costa, Rui Miguel, Brody, Stuart
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Antenatal Waist Circumference and Hypertension Risk

Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2001
To assess whether waist circumference at the first antenatal visit predicts risk of developing hypertension later in pregnancy.Pregnant women with singleton pregnancies (n = 1142, median age 29 years, interquartile range 25-32 years, 387 primigravidas) were recruited at their first antenatal visits.
N, Sattar, P, Clark, A, Holmes, M E, Lean, I, Walker, I A, Greer   +5 more
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Waist Circumference Measurement in Clinical Practice

Nutrition in Clinical Practice, 2008
The obesity epidemic is a major public health problem worldwide. Adult obesity is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Measurement of abdominal obesity is strongly associated with increased cardiometabolic risk, cardiovascular events, and mortality.
Rosane, Ness-Abramof, Caroline M, Apovian   +1 more
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Waist circumference in primary care

Primary Care Diabetes, 2009
Current literature suggests that waist circumference may be marginally better than BMI as a surrogate marker for total body fat and can identify thinner people with increased visceral adipose tissue and increased cardiometabolic risk. This commentary explores the use of WC in primary care, including how and when to measure, and how to use the results.
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Waist Circumference and Sleep Disordered Breathing

The Laryngoscope, 2008
AbstractObjectives/Hypothesis: To explore how the different metrics of obesity, specifically body mass index (BMI), Mallampati, neck circumference, waist circumference, and waist‐hip ratio, correlate with metrics of sleep disordered breathing (SDB), specifically the apnea/hypopnea index (AHI), and which is/are the most likely to predict and correlate ...
Terence M, Davidson, Minal R, Patel
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Measures of Waist Circumference

2012
Waist circumference measurement is recommended in the clinical assessment of ­obesity and is a useful marker of total and abdominal body fat in genetic and epidemiologic research. Waist circumference measurement is non-invasive and is easily accomplished by trained observers in clinical and research settings.
Paul B. Higgins, Anthony G. Comuzzie
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Large waist circumference and risk of hypertension

International Journal of Obesity, 2001
To examine the relationship between 24 h ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and three commonest anthropometric measurements for obesity--body mass index (BMI), waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) and waist circumference (W).Cross-sectional survey among outpatients at the Obesity Research Center.Four-hundred and sixty-one overweight or obese subjects, non ...
COLAGRANDE VITTORIO, RICCIONI G., DELLA VECCHIA ROSANNA, BALLONE, Enzo, MERLITTI, Daniele, GUAGNANO, Maria Teresa, SENSI, Sergio, MANIGRASSO MR   +7 more
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Chest width, waist circumference, and thigh circumference are predictors of dementia

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2018
ObjectiveFew studies have investigated the relationship between specific body measures and dementia.MethodsThree‐dimensional anthropometric body surface scanning data containing 38 body measures were collected from 6831 participants from the health examination department of a medical center in Taiwan during 2000 to 2008, and 236 dementia cases were ...
Pei‐Ju Liao, Tzu‐Yu Lin, Ming‐Kuo Ting, Tsung‐I Peng, Wen‐Ko Chiou, Li‐Hsuan Chen, Kuang‐Hung Hsu   +6 more
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Waist Circumference Measurement: Not a Waste of Time

Journal of Doctoral Nursing Practice
Background: The following executive summary is a summation of an education seminar completed as part of the requirements for a Doctor of Nursing Practice capstone project. The gap in practice is a need for more knowledge among health care professionals regarding waist circumference measurement (WCM) in the outpatient clinical setting.
Laura, Lunger, Diane, Whitehead
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