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Asian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2013 Objective: Hypertension is related to increased body fat, which can be evaluated by anthropometric indicators among the Aos, a tribe of North-East India. Methods: Cross-sectional study with a sample of 1804 Ao adults (male= 890) (females= 914) aged 18
Temsutola Maken
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Self-Measured vs Professionally Measured Waist Circumference [PDF]
The Annals of Family Medicine, 2016 Although waist circumference can provide important metabolic risk information, logistic issues inhibit its routine use in outpatient practice settings. We assessed whether self-measured waist circumference is sufficiently accurate to replace professionally measured waist circumference for identifying high-risk patients.Medical outpatients and research ...
Barbara G, Carranza Leon +3 more
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Health risks associated with high waist circumference: a systematic review
Journal of Public Health Research, 2020 Obesity is a health disorder characterized by an increase in body weight, measured by waist circumference. High waist circumference is linked to potential development of non-communicable diseases.
Darsini +3 more
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Association of the hypertriglyceridemic waist phenotype and severity of acute pancreatitis
Lipids in Health and Disease, 2019 Background The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of a simple visceral obesity phenotype, known as the hypertriglyceridemic waist phenotype and its quantitative indicator waist circumference index on the severity of acute pancreatitis ...
Yanbing Ding +12 more
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BMC Pediatrics, 2010 Background Central adiposity is related to chronic disease risk in adolescents. Racial differences in waist circumference have been identified using cross-sectional data from this age group. We tested for racial differences in age-related growth in waist
Daniels Stephen R +4 more
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Does endothelial dysfunction correlate better with waist-to-hip ratio than with body mass index or waist circumference among obese patients? [PDF]
Clinics, 2006 PURPOSE: Obesity is associated with cardiovascular disease, affecting large arteries and the microcirculation. Waist circumference and body mass index are routinely employed as measures for assessing obesity-related health risk, whereas waist-to-hip ...
Nivaldo Ribeiro Villela +4 more
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Predicting waist circumference from body mass index [PDF]
BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2012 Abstract Background Being overweight or obese increases risk for cardiometabolic disorders. Although both body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) measure the level of overweight and obesity, WC may be more important because of its closer relationship to total body fat.
Bozeman Samuel R +5 more
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International Journal of Noncommunicable Diseases, 2018 Background: Children born as small for gestational age (SGA) tend to develop central adiposity and may have chances of developing metabolic syndrome. Waist–hip circumference ratio (WHR) is considered as a good indicator of central/truncal obesity.
Harvinder Kaur +2 more
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Waist Circumference: An Important Marker for Hypertension
National Journal of Community Medicine, 2019 Introduction: High blood pressure indirectly identified through anthropometric indicators may be an efficient strategy for detection and control, mainly because these measures can be implemented without specialized technical apparatus.
Sanam Anwar +3 more
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Waist Circumference : A Reliable Anthropometric Measure of Obesity
Journal of Marine Medical Society, 2016 Background: Over the past few decades there has been a dramatic rise in the prevalence of obesity throughout the world Waist circumference has been found to be positively correlated with intra-abdominalfat content and can be used to predict risk of ...
Saurabh Bobdey +3 more
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