waist-to-height ratio
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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Relationship between Glucose Level, Lipid Profiles, and Waist to Height Ratio (WHtR)
... and waist to height ratio (WHtR) among adults in a workplace ...weight, height, percent body fat, and waist and hip circumference were ...odds ratio, having a high WHtR ...
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Waist circumference and waist-to-height ratio are associated with periodontal pocketing—results of the Health 2000 Survey
... as waist circumference and waist-to-height ratio, which indirectly takes into account visceral fat, are more accurate measures of obesity- related oral health risks than ...
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Skinfold thickness, body mass index, waist to hip ratio, and waist to height ratio as a predictors measurements of common diseases such as diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and vitamin D deficiency
... (BMI), waist to hip ratio (WHR), and waist to height ratio (WHtR), with non- communicable diseases such as type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), hypertension (HT), and vitamin D deficiency ...
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Waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio and waist-to-height ratio reference percentiles for abdominal obesity among Greek adolescents
... The above findings were based on body mass index (BMI), which gives no indication of distribution of body fat. In adolescents, as in adults, central or abdominal fat increases the risk for metabolic (dyslipidemia and ...
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Waist-to-Height Ratio Is More Predictive of Years of Life Lost than Body Mass Index
... (first waist-hip ratio ‘‘WHpR’’ and then waist circumference ‘‘WC’’) have increasingly been associated with higher cardiometabolic risk than BMI in both cross-sectional and prospective ...of ...
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Ethnic differences in the association between waist-to-height ratio and albumin-creatinine ratio: the observational SUNSET study
... Second, we used WHtR based on a double measure- ment of the waist circumference and height of partici- pants as a marker of central obesity. This type of measure is often chosen in epidemiological studies, ...
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Waist to Height Ratio as an Index for Cardiometabolic Risk in Adolescents: Results from the 1998 2008 KNHANES
... cutoffs. Height should be taken into ac- count when defining obesity in children and adolescents, and the WHtR is an alternative parameter that considers ...
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Optimal Adiposity Measurement and Risk Stratification in Established Ischaemic Stroke
... including waist circumference, waist-to-height ratio found a significant association with the risk of stroke and a stronger asso- ciation than BMI alone [16] ...and waist to ...
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Body mass index and waist/height ratio for prediction of severity of coronary artery disease
... and waist to height ratio ( ≥ ...for Waist-to-height ratio and Waist-to-height ratio with ...and waist-to height ratio of ≥ ...
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Association between carotid intima-media thickness and index of central fat distribution in middle-aged and elderly Chinese
... The waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) is an important anthropometric index of central obesity that circumvents the limitations of waist circumference (WC) ...of height into the index, any ...
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<p>Evaluation of Several Anthropometric and Metabolic Indices as Correlates of Hyperglycemia in Overweight/Obese Adults</p>
... (waist-to-height ratio) gave us a higher area under the curve in predicting hyperglycemia associated with WC (waist circumference) in women, whereas FFMI (fat-free mass index) gave low ...odds ...
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Association of Waist-Height-Ratio, Waist Circumference, and Body Mass Index with Serum Testosterone Level in Apparently Healthy Men
... that waist circumference (WC) may be a better predictor of testosterone level than weight and body mass index (BMI) ...that waist-to-height ratio (WHt ratio) may be advantageous over ...
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Relationship between Selected Anthropometric Variables, Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Endurance Walk in Non-Insulin Dependent Diabetic Participants
... that waist circumference have the highest correlation with body Weight, Body Mass Index (BMI), Waist Circumferences (WC) and Hip Circumferences (HC), Waist to Hip Ratio (WHR) and Waist ...
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Prediction of whole body fat percentage and visceral adipose tissue mass from five anthropometric variables
... BMI, waist circumference (WC) and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) are more frequently used ...of waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) as a risk indicator for poor cardio-metabolic health ...
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Anthropometric and biochemical markers of insulin resistance according to adipose tissue in overweight and obese patients: a cross sectional study
... the height in meters (m 2 ) (Romero-Corral et ...2004). Waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) calculated by dividing the waist perimeter (cm) by the height (cm) was used as the measure ...
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Central body fat distribution indices in Thai preschool children
... The prevalence of childhood obesity has strikingly in- creased in many countries during the past decades [1,2]. Tracking of obesity in children is generally performed using body mass index (BMI). However, the limitation ...
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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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Visceral Fat Mass Has Stronger Associations with Diabetes and Prediabetes than Other Anthropometric Obesity Indicators among Korean Adults
... This study attempted to clarify which measurement of obesity correlates best with diabetes and prediabetes, by assessing the predictive value of numerous adiposity indices, including vis- ceral fat mass measured by DXA. ...
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Association between anthropometric indices and cardiometabolic risk factors in pre-school children
... for waist circumference, waist to height ra- tio and fat mass index in children ...[15]. Waist circumfer- ence is an indicator of central adiposity in adults [13, 14] but its accuracy in ...
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