[PDF] Top 20 Waist circumference and insulin resistance: a cross-sectional study of Japanese men

... Receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curve analysis was employed to determine optimal cutoffs of waist cir- cumference in relation to insulin resistance defined by dif- ferent values of HOMA-IR, ... See full document

... Since insulin resistance is considered as an independent predictor for age related diseases, including cardiovascular disease, access to an accurate tool for measurement of the IR plays a vital role ...of ... See full document

... lin resistance [21] and chronic inflammation [22, ...cohort study reported that subjects with a moderately reduced FVC have an increased risk of developing insulin resistance and diabetes ...a ... See full document

... [5,6]. Insulin resistance (IR) is a common pathologic state in which target cells fail to respond to or- dinary levels of circulating insulin and, like MetS, it is an important metabolic risk factor ... See full document

... Purpose: Waist circumference (WC) and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) are widely used as indicators of abdominal adiposity and the cut-off values have been validated primarily in ...this study we ... See full document

... Quantitative Insulin sensitivity Check Index ...mean waist circumference for both men and women was well above the cutoffs recommended by the ...for men was 47 -133 kg and for women 44 ... See full document

... (4,802 men and 6,916 women) participated in the study and gave written informed con- ...This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Catholic University of ...of insulin ... See full document

... the study and signing an informed consent form, each participant was mea- sured by one surveyor for body weight, height, and waist ...and waist circumference was mea- sured three times at the ... See full document

... cutoff waist circumference of ...and insulin resistance (Tabata, et al 2009) (17). In this study population, overweight and obesity are serious health risk issues that require major ... See full document

... between waist and the inflammatory markers was ...3. Waist was the variable that explained most of the variability of hs- CRP, ESR and fibrinogen in both women and ...before, waist ... See full document

... of homeostatic model assessment with insulin resistance [17]. In addition, soluble uric acid could increase tissue levels of NADPH oxidase and the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in mature ... See full document

... the waist circumference cut points for identifying per- sons with hypertension were lower than the IDF criteria and sex differences in these cut points were not as large as for other populations ...cohort ... See full document

... that waist circumference would be a good pre- dictor of diabetes in the ...the waist circumference with body mass index, the waist to hip ratio and body fat percent in our diabetic male ... See full document

... in men and ...among men, those with a high visceral fat mass had by far the highest association ...high waist-to-thigh ratio showed a lower association compared to the values of the other indi- ces ... See full document

... lin resistance loaded on the same factor with measures of obesity including weight, body mass index and waist cir- cumference [2, 5-9, 11, ...accentuates insulin resistance ... See full document

... Proinflammatory adipokine production also triggers a mild and chronic inflammatory state that leads to CVD [8]. In the current study, the O + IR group was 1.6 times more likely to develop CVD risk than the O-IR ... See full document

... Overweight was defined as having a BMI between the 85th and the 95th percentiles for age and sex. BMI levels over the 95th percentile for age and sex were considered as obesity (8). MetSyn was defined according to the ... See full document

... as waist circumference, been shown to be more accurate predictors of HOMA, but the use of multiple variables, as documented in this study, provide further additive improvements in ... See full document

... with insulin resistance than the gynecoid obesity ...to insulin and that such characteristics are amplified when they show hypertrophy ...euglycemia, insulin secretion increases and the ... See full document

... Natural logarithmic transformation gave models in which differences between centres and effects of covari- ates were more easily interpretable. This alternative model closely approximates the model obtained by cubic root ... See full document