[PDF] Top 20 Use of Waist Height Ratio in Identifying Cardiovascular Risk Factors

... Waist/Height ratio is the newer parameter taken in our study, its effectiveness is studied and compared with other parameters like BMI and waist ...for Waist/Height ratio ... See full document

... 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 ... See full document

... metabolic disorders, current strategies to combat obe- sity are failing as overweight and obesity rates continue to increase worldwide [18]. As a percentage of obese subjects are considered to be metabolically healthy ... See full document

... of height, and the height of adults is relatively ...and use in areas with insufficient ...the use of WHtR as a measure of the effect of obesity on ... See full document

... permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons ... See full document

... weight, height, abdominal sagittal diameter, abdominal and hip circumferences, and calculations of waist: hip ratio and ...to use these techniques, especially in winter, in busy, everyday ... See full document

... for identifying children at risk of abdominal obesity in relation to clustering of metabolic and cardiovascular risk factors or obese-related diseases, such as type 2 ... See full document

... CM risk factors in logistic regression and the excellent findings from test of ROC curve give a collective evidence for the superiority of this measure in comparison with other anthropometric indicators of ... See full document

... All those who had at least five recorded days with a wear time at least 8 h, were included in all analyses. Sickness or injury status, exceptional step counts reported as an untypical day, or problems with pedometer ... See full document

... other cardiovascular risk factors such as hypertension, hypertriglyceridemia, hypoalphalipoprotei- nemia and central obesity, all of them in the context of metabolic syndrome (MS) ...the use ... See full document

... of cardiovascular and metabolic disease risk in children ...body factors and is a poor measure of body fat distribution and risk of related diseases in children ...the risk of ... See full document

... S. Soederberg et al in their nested case referent study had observed that high levels of leptin were associated with high BMI, high systolic and diastolic blood pressure. They said that, circulating levels of leptin were ... See full document

... that waist to height ratio was the only anthrompometric index which had consistent association with cardiovascular risk ...cular risk better than BMI or waist hip ... See full document

... for identifying people at an increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease, the most discriminative threshold of WC needs to be deter- mined by the ROC ...the use of the single WC ... See full document

... for identifying overweight and obese children in a popu- ...and waist-to-hip ratio by taking not only height, but also the abdom-final adiposity into ...for identifying overweight and ... See full document

... and height measurement [5,31]. Some authors have questioned the use of this cut-off point as a universal indicator of cardio-metabolic risk [32], arguing that Asian populations tend to be shorter ... See full document

... the risk factors for CVD early and to help control ...increased risk of CHD in bus ...that waist-to-height ratio as a screening tool for the prediction of cardiovascular ... See full document

... incident cardiovascular disease, cardiovascular disease mortality, and all-cause ...evaluated factors, ie, sex, origin (Asians, non-Asians), and optimal BMI or WHtR cutoffs were significantly related ... See full document

... assessing cardiovascular risk among the severely obese ...CVD risk factors such as ...metabolic risk profile in children. This is because when waist or hip circumference is ... See full document

... recognized risk factor for developing cardiovascular dis- ease and type 2 diabetes mellitus in adulthood, excess central (intra-abdominal) body fat distribution may be more related to these diseases than ... See full document