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Anthropometric indicators as predictors of high blood pressure among the Ao tribe of North-East India

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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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, Hamidah, Hari Basuki Notobroto, Eko Agus Cahyono   +3 more
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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, Michael D, Jensen, Jennifer J, Hartman, Teresa B, Jensen   +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, Min Zhang, Lisheng Wang, Tao Yin, Ningzhi Wang, Jian Wu, Jiehua Zhi, Weiwei Chen, Keyan Wu, Weijuan Gong, Weiming Xiao, Zhenglei Xu, Guotao Lu   +12 more
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Racial differences in central adiposity in a longitudinal cohort of black and white adolescent females

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, Dallal Gerard E, Lichtenstein Alice H, Tybor David J, Must Aviva   +4 more
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Prevalence and control of hypertension and albuminuria in South Korea: focus on obesity and abdominal obesity in the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2011-2012. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
BACKGROUND: Albuminuria is associated with cardiovascular disease, and the relationship between albuminuria and hypertension is well established in many studies.
Su-Jung Yoon, Do-Hoon Kim, Ga-Eun Nam, Yeo-Joon Yoon, Kyung-Do Han, Dong-Wook Jung, Sang-Woon Park, Young-Eun Kim, Sung-Ho Lee, Sang-Su Lee, Yang-Hyun Kim   +10 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, Rajesh Batlish, Ashwani Upadhyay, Ranjan Sarkar   +3 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, Hoaglin David C, Burton Tanya M, Pashos Chris L, Ben-Joseph Rami H, Hollenbeak Christopher S   +5 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, Hajir H Rashid, Ghadeer J Moslhey, Bushra Aleem   +3 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
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