WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE IN THE STUDY POPULATION
Is waist circumference a useful screening tool for diabetes mellitus in an overweight multi-ethnic population?
... Differential analysis of varying key measurements Areas under the ROC curve The ROC curve for the combined male and female study population is shown in Figure 1. The area under the curve and hence potential ...
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Waist circumference and insulin resistance: a cross-sectional study of Japanese men
... on waist circumference as an estimate of visceral adiposity rather than body mass index in the prevention of obesity-related ...present study population, waist circumference and ...
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Using LMS tables to determine waist circumference and waist-to-height ratios in Colombian children and adolescents: the FUPRECOL study
... This study has certain ...the study population was composed of young people at state- funded schools in a single city; therefore, the data ob- tained are not fully representative of the ...
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Sex related differences in the association between waist circumference and bone mineral density in a Korean population
... Our study had several ...between waist circumference and BMD in community-dwelling individ- uals (n = ...the study population included both males and females. Our study also had ...
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Waist Circumference, Waist Hip Ratio and Body Mass Index in Female Undergraduates of a Tertiary Institution in Nigeria: a Cross-sectional Study
... CONCLUSIONS There is significant correlation between WC, W/H, and BMI, and the prevalence of obesity is relatively low among the study population based on the BMI alone. However, it is high based on the ...
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Body Mass Index, Waist Circumference and Waist-to-Hip Ratio: Which Anthropometric Indicator is Better Predictor for the Hypertension Development in Women Population of the Island Cres
... The population held all characteristics of the island isolate from biological, geographical and cultural point of ...view. Study Population and Methods The research was preformed during November and ...
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Waist Circumference as the Strongest Factor Related to Blood Glucose Level
... this study was to determine the relationship between body mass index, waist circumference and waist hip ratio with blood glucose ...The study design was cross-sectional. The ...
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Factors Influencing Abdominal Obesity By Waist Circumference Among Normal BMI Population
... The population with normal body mass index (BMI) but with abdominal obesity are most of the time the ‘neglected’ population in terms of health ...this study is to study the prevalence of ...
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Metabolic Predictors of 5-Year Change in Weight and Waist Circumference in a Triethnic Population
... present study, the age-adjusted partial correlation coefficient for baseline body mass index and baseline waist circumference was ...(i.e., waist circumference, adjusted for body mass ...
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Which is a better marker for overweight: waist height ratio or waist circumference?
... proposed waist height ratio values below ...current study found that mean waist height ratio of ...A study among Chinese population stated that waist circumference is the ...
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Accuracy of self-reported height, weight, and waist circumference in a general adult Chinese population
... Chinese population, height was overre- ported whilst weight, BMI, and WC were underreported, and such bias could be affected by a multitude of factors, including demographic characteristics (including sex, age, ...
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Waist Circumference, Blood Pressure and Lifestyle of Sudanese Population, Khartoum Locality, Sudan 2016
... abnormal waist circumference compared to two thirds of men. The mean waist circumference was more than 80 cm among study women approximates the mean waist circumference of ...
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Is high body fat estimated by body mass index and waist circumference a predictor of hypertension in adults? A population-based study
... Eligibility, exclusion, and loss criteria All adults aged 20 to 59 years living in selected households were eligible for the study. The exclusion criteria for carry- ing out anthropometric measurements and blood ...
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Accuracy of self-reported body weight, height and waist circumference in a Dutch overweight working population
... Dutch population, neither in rela- tion to SES or health-related ...this study was to evaluate the accuracy of self-reported body weight, height and waist circumference among a Dutch ...
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A prospective study on the effect of waist circumference on symptom severity of gastroesophageal reflux disease
... manometer study is to confirm diagnosis in atypical cases and its ability to exclude other ...western population, 4 although in our country there is no statistical analysis of its prevalence, but it seems ...
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Recent Trends in Waist Circumference and Waist-Height Ratio Among US Children and Adolescents
... large population surveys have been generated in children and adolescents in Australia, 37 Canada, 38 Italy, 39 the Netherlands, 40 Spain, 41 the United Kingdom, 42 and the United ...moderate waist value, ...
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Depression with atypical features and increase in obesity, body mass index, waist circumference, and fat mass: a prospective, population-based study.
... (BMI, waist circum- ference, and fat mass) were established at baseline using ro- bust rather than multiple regression models because the re- siduals did not reveal a normal ...
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Waist circumference centiles for UK South Asian children
... this study provides the first set of WC centile curves for UK South Asian ...in population surveys, for tracking changes in abdominal adiposity to promote preventative ...
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How can waist circumference predict the body composition?
... present study has several ...first study to analyze the WC component using ...our study was extremely large (> 11,000 ...current study also has a limitation: the study subjects were ...
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Superior Role of Waist Circumference to Body-Mass Index
... a population of postmenopausal women and compared the significance of HTGW and criteria of metabolic syndrome in ability to predict fatal cardiovascular ...enlarged waist and elevated triglycerides may be ...
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