waist height ratio.
Which is a better marker for overweight: waist height ratio or waist circumference?
... by waist height ratio across both the ...by waist circumference and then least by BMI in ...with waist circumference and waist height ratio ...with waist ...
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Serum Leptin Level and Its Association with Blood Pressure, Body Mass Index, Waist Hip Ratio and Waist Height Ratio
... that waist height ratio was a better predictor than waist circumference for diabetes, dyslipidemia, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease risk in both genders in populations of various ...
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Recent Trends in Waist Circumference and Waist-Height Ratio Among US Children and Adolescents
... mean waist circumference for boys increased between National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III and National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999 –2004 from ...mean waist circumference for ...
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Use of Waist Height Ratio in Identifying Cardiovascular Risk Factors
... This is to certify that this dissertation titled “USE OF WAIST HEIGHT RATIO IN IDENTIFYING CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTORS ” submitted by Dr. T.Ganesh to the faculty of General Medicine, The Tamilnadu ...
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Waist circumference, waist-hip ratio and waist-height ratio percentiles and central obesity among Pakistani children aged five to twelve years
... Obesity is a global epidemic and children are the worst affected with an estimated ten percent of school-aged children being overweight and one quarter of these being obese worldwide [1]. Childhood obesity epidemic is ...
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Body mass index and waist/height ratio for prediction of severity of coronary artery disease
... body height was taken in the standing position without ...(CAG). Waist circumference (WC) was measured at the mid-point between the distal border of the ribs and the top of the iliac crest with subjects ...
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Association of Waist-Height-Ratio, Waist Circumference, and Body Mass Index with Serum Testosterone Level in Apparently Healthy Men
... The case-control study involved participants divided into two groups according to WC, BMI, and WHt ratio. Patients with normal WC less than 100 cm and patients with abnormal WC over 100 cm, based on the WHO and ...
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Predicting cardiometabolic risk: waist-to-height ratio or BMI. A meta-analysis
... (“waist-to- height ratio” OR “waist/height ratio” OR “stature-to-height ratio” OR “stature/height ratio” OR “WHtR” OR “WSR”) AND (“body mass index” OR ...
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Inflammatory status in older women with and without metabolic syndrome: is there a correlation with risk factors?
... The anthropometric, biochemical, inflammatory, and blood pressure parameters of the groups of older women with and without MetS are presented in Table 1. There was no difference between the groups regarding age (P = ...
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Visceral Fat Mass Has Stronger Associations with Diabetes and Prediabetes than Other Anthropometric Obesity Indicators among Korean Adults
... index, waist circumference, waist-height ratio, waist-hip ratio, waist-thigh ratio, and visceral fat were used as measures of ...
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Body composition and ankle-brachial index in Ghanaians with asymptomatic peripheral arterial disease in a tertiary hospital
... Obesity, characterized by excess body fat, is recognized as important factor for development of CVDs [6] includ- ing PAD [7]. Obesity is assessed as body mass index (BMI) for generalized adiposity, and waist ...
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Comparing the Accuracy of Waist-Hip Ratio Calculation by the BIA device versus the Manual Method
... whereas, waist circumference (WC), waist-hip ratio (WHR), and waist-height ratio (WHtR) are indices applied for measuring central body fat ...
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Comparative associations between anthropometric and bioelectric impedance analysis derived adiposity measures with blood pressure and hypertension in India: a cross-sectional analysis
... Prevalence ratio; ROC: Receiver operating characteristic; SBP: Systolic blood pressure; SD: Standard deviation; WC: Waist circumference; WHR: Waist-hip ratio; WHtR: Waist-height ...
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Association between obesity indices and cardiovascular risk factors in late adolescence in the Seychelles
... (BMI), waist circumference, waist/hip ratio (WHiR), waist/height ratio (WHtR) and percent fat mass (by bioimpedance) and 6 CVRFs (blood pressure, LDL-cholesterol, ...
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Obesity indices predict hypertension among indigenous adults in Krau Wildlife Reserve, Peninsular Malaysia
... (BMI), waist circumference (WC), waist-hip ratio (WHR), and waist-height ratio (WHtR), are commonly used as a proxy measure of ...
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Association between carotid intima-media thickness and index of central fat distribution in middle-aged and elderly Chinese
... including waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) and visceral fat area (VFA), were stronger risk factors of subclinical atherosclerosis than body mass index (BMI) in Chinese ...China. Height, weight and ...
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Ethnic differences in the association between waist-to-height ratio and albumin-creatinine ratio: the observational SUNSET study
... albumin-creatinine ratio appeared slightly stronger among the Hindustani-Surinamese than among the other ethnic ...by height (in part) counter- acts the higher risk associated with smaller waist ...
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Adiposity markers and risk of coronary heart disease in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus
... especially height and weight, in the first step for identification of CHD risk (hard outcomes) in clinical practice (screen- ing), but this hypothesis should be ...between waist-to-height ...
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Central body fat distribution indices in Thai preschool children
... boys and girls, however, girls had significantly greater values of biceps, triceps and subscapular skinfolds (p < 0.05) than those of boys, Mean TBF of boys was similar to that of girls. Table 2 demonstrates the ...
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Neck circumference as an independent predictive contributor to cardio-metabolic syndrome
... body height, body weight, NC, WC and hip circumference (HC), all subjects also underwent an overnight fasting blood draw for the determination of biochemical ...
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