Neck circumference
Neck Circumference as a Novel Anthropometric Value for Diagnosis of Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity in Patients with Diabetes
... that neck circumference had diagnostic validity for obesity specifically central obesity but cut-off points with high sensitivity and specificity for both genders were not determined in the most of studies ...
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Accuracy of Neck Circumference as a Screening Tool in Classifying General and Central Obesity
... Objective: the neck circumference (NC) as an index of obesity and upper-body subcutaneous adipose tissue distribution is recently used. This alternative screening tool is reliable, simple, quick and ...
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Neck circumference as an independent indicator of visceral obesity in a Chinese population
... The emergence of visceral fat could be interpreted as a specific marker of systemic lipid over-accumulation, expressed by a parallel increase in circulating TG. The excess lipids may be stored in the ectopic sites (e.g., ...
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Neck circumference in relation to glycemic parameters: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies
... (“Neck Circumference”[Title/Abstract] AND (“Blood Glucose”[MeSh] OR “Blood Glucose”[Title/ Abstract] OR “Fasting Plasma Glucose”[Title/Abstract] OR FBG[Title/Abstract] OR Insulin [MeSh] OR “Insu- lin ...
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Association of Neck Circumference With Perioperative Adverse Respiratory Events in Children
... Neck circumference as a screening measure for identifying chil- dren with high body mass index. Available at: www.pediatrics[r] ...
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Neck circumference as an independent predictive contributor to cardio-metabolic syndrome
... Background: The predictive potentials of neck circumference (NC) for cardio-metabolic risks remain uncertain. The aim of this study was to investigate whether NC independently contributes to the prediction ...
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Original Research Article To study the hip circumference to neck circumference ratio and neck circumference as a risk factor for coronary artery disease
... that Neck circumference ≥ ...which neck circumference was correlated with MI and other measures of cardiometabolic risk factors they found that neck circumference was ...on ...
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Neck circumference as a risk factor of screen-detected diabetes mellitus: community-based study
... Results: Neck circumference among women with normal FPG/2-hPG was 35 (33–36) cm, IGR 36 (34.5–38) cm, SDDM HbA1c < 6.5 % 42 (40–43) cm, HbA1c > 6.5 % 42.5 (40–44) cm, p < 0.001, and for men from ...
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Neck circumference and early stage atherosclerosis: the cardiometabolic risk in Chinese (CRC) study
... ond, neck circumference is used to represent upperbody subcutaneous fat, we did not perform radiographic mea- sures to quantify this depot of fat ...
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Neck Circumference as a Screening Measure for Identifying Children With High Body Mass Index
... OBJECTIVES: Overweight in children is most commonly described by using BMI. Because BMI does not adequately describe regional (cen- tral) adiposity, other indices of body fatness are being explored. Neck ...
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Synergistic effects of neck circumference and metabolic risk factors on insulin resistance: the Cardiometabolic Risk in Chinese (CRC) study
... NC: Neck circumference; IR: Insulin resistance; HOMA-IR: Homeostasis Model Assessment-Insulin Resistance; BMI: Body mass index; BF%: Body fat rate; WC: Waist circumference; HC: Hip ...
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Frequency and severity of OSAHS in Mexican adolescents The role of BMI and neck circumference
... Background: Overweight and obesity are major public-health issues in Mexico. Sleep breathing disorders directly impact the health of affected subjects. The aim of this study was to describe the frequency and severity of ...
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Association of neck circumference and high blood pressure in children and adolescents: a case–control study
... A review of recent meta-analytic studies has shown that general obesity measured by BMI (body mass index), and central or abdominal obesity measured by anthropometric indices such as WC (waist circumfer- ence), WHtR ...
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Neck circumference measurement as a screening tool for obesity in children
... waist circumference measurement though reflect central obesity it is time consuming, cumbersome and may be effected by post prandial abdominal distension, bowel dysfunction ...that neck circumference ...
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Neck circumference as an independent indicator to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in non-obese men
... WC is often used as a surrogate marker of central obesity as well as markers of NAFLD. Despite the estab- lished use of the WC in the evaluation of health risk, it has a number of limitations [26]. First, different ...
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Neck circumference is independently associated with relative systemic hypertension in young adults with sickle cell anaemia
... Overweight and obesity are rising to pandemic and re- main major public health problems globally and they are important risk factor for cardiometabolic disorder (CMD). The prevalence of obesity varies from 10 to 40% in ...
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Original Article Neck circumference can be used as a valuable tool to screen the cardiovascular risk factors in Chinese elderly: a community based study
... between neck circumference and cardiovascular risk factors including diastolic blood pressure, systolic blood pressure, triglycerides, total cholesterol and fasting plasma glucose in Chinese ...between ...
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Association between Neck Circumference and Glycemia in Adolescents
... The neck circumference (NC) is an anthropometric measure that has been used to evaluate the over- weight and accumulation of subcutaneous fat in the upper body, regardless of ...
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Association of Moderate-To-Vigorous Physical Activity with Neck Circumference in Eight Latin American Countries
... by neck circumference (NC) may be linked to a higher metabolic risk than abdominal visceral ...waist circumference (WC) and body mass index (BMI) and has been associated with components of metabolic ...
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Association of neck circumference with general and abdominal obesity in children and adolescents: the weight disorders survey of the CASPIAN-IV study
... wrist circumference had a strong positive correlation with all anthropometric mea- ...wrist circumference, in crude modelling and models adjusted for age, sex and living area, had a statistically signi fi ...
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