Nutrients, 2019 The associations between visceral adiposity index (VAI), body shape index and diabetes in adults were inconsistent. We assessed the predictive capacity of VAI and body shape index for diabetes by comparing them with body mass index (BMI) and waist ...
Junxiang Wei +4 more
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Public Health Nutrition, 2019 Objective: To evaluate the association of ultra-processed food (UPF) consumption with gains in weight and waist circumference, and incident overweight/obesity, in the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil) cohort.
S. Canhada +10 more
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Waist Circumference as the Strongest Factor Related to Blood Glucose Level [PDF]
, 2014 The increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity is associated with the increasing incident of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Obesity, especially abdominal obesity is an important risk factor for the onset of diabetes.
Martini, S. (Santi) +1 more
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Re-evaluation of waist circumference in metabolic syndrome: a comparison between Japanese men and women [PDF]
, 2007 We re-evaluated the criteria for waist circumference to predict the accumulation of the components of metabolic syndrome. We used data for 3,185 Japanese, aged 20-79 years.
Makino, Hirofumi +5 more
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Factors Affecting Obesity and Waist Circumference Among US Adults
Preventing Chronic Disease, 2019 Introduction Physical activity, sedentary activity, and food intake affect waist circumference and obesity among adults; however, the relationship is unclear.
Daniel Kim +3 more
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Arthritis care & research, 2019 To investigate the relationship between bioimpedance‐derived total body fat percentage, waist circumference, and body mass index (BMI) and the subsequent development of rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
A. Linauskas +5 more
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Ethnic specific obesity cut-offs for diabetes risk: cross-sectional study of 490, 288 UK Biobank participants [PDF]
, 2014 OBJECTIVE To compare the relationship between adiposity and prevalent diabetes across ethnic groups in the UK Biobank cohort and to derive ethnic-specific obesity cutoffs that equate to those developed in white populations in terms of diabetes prevalence.
Gill, Jason +4 more
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Waist-to-Hip Ratio is Related to Body Fat Content and Distribution Regardless of the Waist Circumference Measurement Protocol, in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Patients [PDF]
, 2016 Central accumulation and distribution of body fat (BF) is an important cardiometabolic risk factor. Waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), commonly elevated in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) patients, has been endorsed as a risk related marker of central ...
Cortez-Pinto, Helena +5 more
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Adiponectin, in contrast to leptin, is not associated with body mass index, waist circumference and HOMA-IR in subjects of a west-African population [PDF]
, 2018 Factors associated with plasma levels of adiponectin and leptin were studied in adult subjects without diabetes from Cotonou in Benin (West‐Africa). Seventy (70) men and 45 women were included in the study.
Adehan, Grace +7 more
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Excellent intra and inter-observer reproducibility of wrist circumference measurements in obese children and adolescents [PDF]
, 2016 In a previous study, we found that wrist circumference, in particular its bone component,was associated with insulin resistance in a population of overweight/obese children.
Alessia, Gallozzi +6 more
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