Body mass index, waist circumference, and health risk: evidence in support of current National Institutes of Health guidelines.

By Ian Janssen, P. Katzmarzyk, R. Ross. Archives of Internal Medicine, 2002

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Subfields: Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Physiology

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In Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism

1. F. B. Hu
2. W. Willett
3. S. Grundy
4. MR Stampfer
5. E. Rimm
6. R. Eckel
7. P. Zimmet
8. Vasanti S. Malik

In Physiology

1. F. B. Hu
2. W. Willett
3. E. Rimm
4. MR Stampfer
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6. D. McCann
7. Rudolph L. Leibel
8. Youfa Wang

Citations in the corpus

• The metabolic syndrome. (2003, positive): “Nearly 15,000 subjects in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) were evaluated to determine if the NIH waist circumference cutoffs helped to identify individuals at increased health risk [9].”
• The Super Size of America: An Economic Estimation of Body Mass Index and Obesity in Adults (2005, background): “3 Waist circumference might be an alternate measure of obesity, as a waist circumference of over 35 inches for women and 40 inches for men has been associated with a markedly increased likelihood of a variety of diseases (Janssen et al. 2002).”
• The incidence of co-morbidities related to obesity and overweight: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2009, background): “In addition, WC measurements were considered to be the better risk predictor for type II diabetes, hypertension, coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, stroke and gallbladder disease [16-24].”
• Obesity is associated with macrophage accumulation in adipose tissue. (2003, background): “Strong positive correlations exist between degree of adiposity and several obesity-associated disorders such as hypertension, dyslipidemia, and glucose intolerance (2, 4).”
• Comparison of abdominal adiposity and overall obesity in predicting risk of type 2 diabetes among men. (2005, background): “Janssen et al (37) reported that WC and BMI independently contributed to the prediction of abdominal subcutaneous, visceral, and nonabdominal fat.”