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The relationship between the presence of lower urinary tract symptoms and waist circumference
... Literature shows that several risk factors are associated with the presence of LUTS, such as age, parity, mode of delivery, birth weight, gestational age, menopause, and obe- sity. 7,8 Particularly in cases of UI, ...
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Waist Circumference as a Significant Risk Factor for Coronary Artery Disease in Females
... Body Mass Index Mean BMI of our study group was 25.3 and that of control group was 20.7 According to BMI values for Asian Indians 31 , mean BMI of our study group belongs to obesity class 1 and that of control belongs to ...
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Testosterone, obesity, and waist circumference as determinants of metabolic syndrome in Saudi women
... Subjects A total of 142 female subjects aged between 20 and 60 years were recruited for this study. Of them, 95 subjects with high WC ( ≥ 88 cm) and body mass index (BMI ≥ 30 kg/m 2 ) and 47 apparently healthy ...
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BMI, waist circumference, and clustering of cardiovascular risk factors in Japanese adults
... According to the results of the ROC analysis in each BMI group, the most discriminative threshold of WC showed an approximately 10 cm difference between the groups. The BMI-specific WC cutoffs provided a more ...
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Relationship Between Neck Circumference, Waist Circumference, Body Mass Index, Arm Circumference and Waist Hip Ratio as Predictors of Cardiovascular Risk Factors
... relationship between NC, WC, WHR, AC, BMI, HT, WT and age as to determine if they could be of clinical relevance in predicting cardiovascular risk ...(BMI) between 25 and ...
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Macronutrients and Waist Circumference Compared to Hip Circumference
... indicated that a WC greater than 94 centimeters in men predicted an increased risk for developing type 2 diabetes. 39 Other researchers found that WC was a predictor for vascular disease in women, but BMI was a better ...
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Waist Circumference, Body Mass Index, Hip Circumference and Waist-To-Hip Ratio
... that waist circumference would be a good pre- dictor of diabetes in the ...the waist circumference with body mass index, the waist to hip ratio and body fat percent in our diabetic male ...
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The relationship between thermal imaging and waist circumference in young adults
... 1.1. Body Scanners Body scanners are a relatively recent technology whose main function is to measure the surface topography of the human body, producing a 3D image of the individual being scanned as well as an extensive ...
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Correlation between waist circumference and other factors in menopausal women in Thailand
... correlation between waist circumference and other factors such as lipid pro- files, fasting blood glucose and blood pressure in healthy menopausal women attending meno- pause ...enrolled. ...
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Waist Circumference and Waist-to-Height Ratio as Indicators for Excess Adiposity in Adolescents
... WC and WHtR are anthropometry indica- tors that have been suggested in various studies to screen for over nutrition in adolescents which can also serve as predictor for non communicable disease risks such as ...
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The waist circumference-adjusted associations between hyperuricemia and other lifestyle-related diseases
... Methods: This cross-sectional study included 33,498 Japanese individuals, and was conducted at the Center for Preventive Medicine, NTT Kanto Medical Center, Tokyo, from May 2006 to March 2015. Hyperuricemia was defined ...
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Recent Trends in Waist Circumference and Waist-Height Ratio Among US Children and Adolescents
... To the best of our knowledge, our study is the first report on the recent trends in WHtR among US children and adolescents. Researchers proposed recently that WHtR might be a better predictor of risk for cardiovascular ...
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Waist circumference centiles for UK South Asian children
... 9 onwards, where the curves overlapped. For UK South Asian girls, the greatest differences between the British girls appeared from age 11- 12y onwards. At the 90th centile, from age 6y onwards, higher WC values ...
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How can waist circumference predict the body composition?
... Furthermore, Ito et al. calculated the percentage fat mass of the whole body (% FM) as 100 × (FM)/(FM + lean mass + bone mineral content) [15]. They showed that the % FM in every generation was about 1.5-fold higher in ...
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Predicting waist circumference from body mass index
... predicted waist circumference for every individual in the ARIC dataset with BMI ≤ 40 kg/m 2 and AGE < 70 ...difference between observed and pre- dicted waist circumference for each ...
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Waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio and waist-to-height ratio reference percentiles for abdominal obesity among Greek adolescents
... plane. Waist and hip circumfer- ences were measured twice using inextensible anthropo- metric tape with the adolescents standing erect and relaxed with arms at the sides and feet positioned close ...together. ...
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Sex related differences in the association between waist circumference and bone mineral density in a Korean population
... circumference and BMD in the femoral neck and lumbar spine in middle-aged and older males and females. Further adjustment for percent body fat slightly attenuated the correlations; however, they remained ...
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Waist circumference and waist-to-height ratio are associated with periodontal pocketing—results of the Health 2000 Survey
... ation between obesity and various parameters of chronic periodontitis has been ...tions between WC and WHtR and periodontal pocket- ing, indicating that additional information about other dimensions of the ...
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Body Mass Index, Waist Circumference and Waist-to-Hip-Ratio in the Prediction of Obesity in Turkish Teenagers
... The prevalence of being overweight and obese in teen- agers has been investigated in many different countries. Various studies have reported very different values. To get more clear information about this particular ...
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Waist Circumference as the Strongest Factor Related to Blood Glucose Level
... relationship between body mass index, waist circumference and waist hip ratio with blood glucose ...index, waist circumference, waist hip ratio and fasting blood glucose ...
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