... Examination Survey (NHANES) 2011–2014, participants ( n = 6,662) aged 30 years or older and who underwent periodontal examinations were chosen for analysis. An assessment of obesity was based on body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC). Estimates of obesity and periodontal disease were made using...

...Daiji Nagayama; Yasuhiro Watanabe; Takashi Yamaguchi; Kenji Suzuki; Atsuhito Saiki; Kentaro Fujishiro; Kohji Shirai Introduction: Abdominal obesity as a risk factor for diagnosing metabolic syndrome (MetS) is evaluated using waist circumference (WC), although WC does not necessarily reflect...

... risk in each subject. The score is a continuous variable, summarizing the individual z -scores for waist circumference, blood pressure, blood levels of glucose, triglycerides, and high-density-lipoprotein cholesterol. Our main aim was to assess the association between early childhood growth...

... prevalence in men (OR 1.18, 95% CI 1.07–1.30, p = 0.001) and women (OR 1.25, 95% CI 1.13–1.38, p < 0.001). Table 3. Binary regression analysis of diabetes-related risk factors in baseline population by gender Neck circumference Type 2 diabetes mellitus Waist circumference...

... was directly related to body mass index and waist circumference, waist-to-height and waist-to-hip ratios, and sum of skin-fold thicknesses. Children with MS were more insulin-resistant, had higher odds ratio for prediabetes and had a more disturbed lipid profile than subjects without MS. Moreover, total...

... aimed at prevention and control of high BP should be prioritized to reduce the occurrence of MetS. WHtR is more important to evaluate MetS. Health education and personalized lifestyle intervention should be promoted to keep a healthy WHtR and waist circumference. An appropriate sleep time should be kept...

...Mohetaboer Momin; Fangfang Fan; Jianping Li; Jia Jia; Long Zhang; Yan Zhang; Yong Huo Objective: We aimed to investigate the relationships of body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), and obesity defined using a combination of both indexes, with the incidence of hypertension in a Chinese...

.... The longitudinal associations of body mass index, waist-to-hip ratio, and waist circumference with D-ROM and TTL were assessed with multivariable adjusted generalized linear models. Dose-response analyses were conducted with restricted cubic splines. Results: D-ROM was not significantly associated with any...

... the intervention the subjects hula-hooped on average 12.8 ± 0.5 min/day and walked 9,986 ± 376 steps/day. The % fat in the android region decreased significantly by HULA but not by WALK (between-group change p < 0.001). Trunk muscle mass increased more by HULA than by WALK ( p < 0.05). Waist circumference...

...Elisa Rönnecke; Mandy Vogel; Sarah Bussler; Nico Grafe; Anne Jurkutat; Maike Schlingmann; Antje Koerner; Wieland Kiess Background: Skinfold thickness (ST), waist circumference (WC) and hip circumference (HC) measurements are simple methods for assessing fat tissue at defined body parts. We examined...

...; Ursula Bachlechner; Christa Scheidt-Nave; Anja Schienkiewitz Aim: This study aims to quantify longitudinal changes in waist circumference (WC) among adults aged 45-64 years in Germany. Methods: Data of 15,444 men and 17,207 women from one nationwide and six regional prospective German cohort studies were...

...Weili Xu; Hua Zhang; Stephanie Paillard-Borg; Hong Zhu; Xiuying Qi; Debora Rizzuto Objectives: The role of different body fat indicators and age in assessing the prevalence of obesity is unclear. We aimed to examine to what extent different body fat indicators including BMI, waist circumference (WC...

.... A questionnaire was used to assess PA at 5 and 11 years after baseline examination, while waist circumference (WC) and hip circumference (HC) were measured at both follow-ups. Results: Among men, WC increased in the constant active group to a lesser extent than in the non-constant active group (3.4 vs. 4.1 cm; p...

...Amanda E. Staiano; Claude Bouchard; Peter T. Katzmarzyk Objective: Waist circumference (WC) is a useful anthropometric tool to estimate cardiometabolic risk. However, BMI influences the relationship between WC and health. This study determined BMI-, sex- and race-specific WC thresholds. Methods...

... or abdominal obesity had higher IL-6 levels, but no independent association between IL-6 levels and obesity markers was found on multivariate regression. Participants with abdominal obesity had higher TNF-α levels, and positive associations were found between TNF-α levels and waist circumference in men...

... to explore associations between whole blood (WB) serotonin concentrations and anthropometric measures. Methods: Healthy adult volunteers (N = 68) gave whole blood samples for measurement of WB serotonin, and underwent BMI waist circumference (WC) and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) assessment as well as DEXA (dual...

...Birgit-Christiane Zyriax; Mark Schoeffauer; Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch; Heiner Boeing; Eberhard Windler Objective: The predictive value of weight gain, BMI, waist circumference (WC) and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) as to cardiovascular risk factors and coronary heart disease (CHD) is still...

... than among Dutch women (16.5%). Controlling for level of education and unemployment attenuated ethnic differences in overweight. Abdominal obesity was more common among Turkish and Moroccan than among Dutch women. After controlling for BMI, migrant men had a relatively low waist circumference compared...

...Janne Bigaard; Jane Christensen; Anne Tjønneland; Birthe Lykke Thomsen; Kim Overvad; Thorkild I.A. Sørensen Objective: Waist circumference, BMI and hip circumference are differentially associated with mortality. We investigated the potential influence of selected lifestyle aspects such as smoking...

...: A prospective cohort study following up 111 female and 84 male subjects who participated in dietary and anthropometric surveys when aged 12 years (in 1979–1981) and 33 years (in 2000–2001). At both time points, height and weight were measured and BMI calculated. At 33 years, waist circumference (WC) and hip...