[PDF] Top 20 Serum Leptin Level and Its Association with Blood Pressure, Body Mass Index, Waist Hip Ratio and Waist Height Ratio

... Background: Leptin is a product of Ob gene secreted from adipose ...affect blood pressure and contribute to hypertension through sympathetic activation in the vasculature or at the renal ...between ... See full document

... in association with incidence of ...that waist to height ratio was the only anthrompometric index which had consistent association with cardiovascular risk ...or waist ... See full document

... than body mass index (BMI) and is signifi- cantly more efficient than BMI in predicting insulin resis- tance, blood pressure, and serum cholesterol and triglyceride levels ... See full document

... elevated blood pressure in adolescents and found only BMI and WC to be significant among all participants irrespective of age and ...strong association with SBP and are easy, non- invasive, low cost ... See full document

... Our findings show that BMI is the best predictor of cardiometabolic risk factors as compared to SAD and WHR in children. With SAD however, some associations with cardiometabolic parameters remained significant even after ... See full document

... inverse association of testosterone with BMI and WC, further reported a higher strength of association between abdominal circumference and TT, when compared to the association between BMI and TT ... See full document

... stronger association between BMI and hyper tension in Chinese men and women but not in Filipino women, compared with non-Hispanic ...every level of BMI compared with non-Hispanic Whites and Mexican ...in ... See full document

... to body mass index, as well as central obesity ...actual body weight, and to be oblivious to optimal (desirable) body weight ...that waist to hip ratio was the ... See full document

... Results: There was no statistical difference between the case and control groups with respect to age, gender, occupation, educational background, place of residence, and history of high blood pressure ... See full document

... Height was measured by a Stadiometer. The subject to be measured was made to stand barefoot on flat surface, with the weight distributed evenly on both feet, heels together and head positioned so that the inferior ... See full document

... elevated blood pressure, and MetS in Asian populations and DM in non-Asian populations in cross- sectional ...elevated blood pressure are concerned, data from the study of Berber et al 21 ... See full document

... the level of triglyceride (TG) and high density lipoprotein cholesterol ...the level of total cholesterol, TG, and HDLC using the Reflotron plus Clinical Chemistry Analyzer ...analyser. Blood ... See full document

... plane; waist circumference midway between the lower rib margin and the iliac crest and hip circumference at the max- imum point over the greater trochanters to the nearest ...utes, blood ... See full document

... negative association between BLM% and WHtR and WC, inde- pendently of the albuminuric ...of body lean mass is the negative association between BLM% and ...fat-free mass was not ... See full document

... Both WC and WHtR seemed to be associated with periodontal pocketing, an indication for infectious chronic periodontal disease among non-diabetic, never- smoking subjects aged 30 – 49 years old. The overall interpretation ... See full document

... The strength of the present study is that measurements of all anthropometric variables (height, weight, and WC) and ALT were conducted among more than 2000 population-based elementary schoolchildren. However, ... See full document

... Although the model successfully estimates WC and, using the WC estimate, membership in the risk clusters, we observed a modest level of systematic error in the model results. Specifically, the model tends to ... See full document

... individual waist, hip, weight, and height measurements may not have optimally or even adequately captured the relationship between the latter variables and the TC/HDL-C ...using waist ... See full document

... as body fat percentage (BF%), body fat distri- bution, dyslipidemia, and adipose tissue derived hor- mones (specifically, leptin and adiponectin) all impact the development of atherogenesis and CVD ... See full document

... These findings provide updated and useful information that further strengthens our understanding of the obe- sity epidemic among children and adolescents in the United States and sheds light on the importance of using WC ... See full document