A systematic review of waist-to-height ratio as a screening tool for the prediction of cardiovascular disease and diabetes: 0·5 could be a suitable global boundary value
By Lucy M. Browning, S. D. Hsieh, M. Ashwell. Nutrition research reviews, 2010
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Subfields: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
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- 2020 International Society of Hypertension Global Hypertension Practice Guidelines. (2020, positive): “5 is recommended for all populations.(53,54)”
- Waist‐to‐height ratio is a better screening tool than waist circumference and BMI for adult cardiometabolic risk factors: systematic review and meta‐analysis (2012, positive): “A systematic review (9) included the evidence from 78 studies published from 1950 to mid-2009 and drew on evidence from prospective and cross-sectional studies, in adults and in children, which reported relationships between WHtR and either BMI, WC, or both, and outcomes of cardiometabolic risk.”
- Pathophysiology of human visceral obesity: an update. (2013, background): “Such robust evidence has also been previously detailed in several review papers on body fat topography published over the last 20 years (48, 71, 72, 112, 113, 234, 263, 357, 360).”