Waist circumference and obesity-associated risk factors among whites in the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey: clinical action thresholds.

By Shankuan Zhu, Zimian Wang, S. Heshka, Moonseong Heo, M. Faith, Steven B. Heymsfield. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2002

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Subfields: Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Epidemiology, Physiology

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In Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism

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2. W. Willett
3. MR Stampfer
4. E. Rimm
5. R. Norman
6. George P. Chrousos
7. G. Kaltsas
8. S. Klein

In Epidemiology

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2. P. Scherer
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7. W. Willett
8. Haiming Cao

In Physiology

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4. E. Rimm
5. MR Stampfer
6. P. Scherer
7. George P. Chrousos
8. Youfa Wang

Citations in the corpus

• Visceral Fat Adipokine Secretion Is Associated With Systemic Inflammation in Obese Humans (2007, background): “Accordingly, waist circumference, which correlates with visceral fat mass (3), has been recommended as a clinical marker to identify patients at increased risk for metabolic diseases (4), and large waist circumference is one of the criteria used to diagnose the metabolic syndrome (5).”
• Comparison of abdominal adiposity and overall obesity in predicting risk of type 2 diabetes among men. (2005, background): “et al (22) recommended cutoffs of 90 cm for men and 83 cm for women.”
• Metabolic syndrome: definitions and controversies (2011, background): “Clinical implications for pediatric MetS MetS as a concept was originally developed to identify adults at a greatest risk for CVD and DMT2, however, the application of this model has not yet been fully validated in children and adolescents.”
• Appropriate waist circumference cutoff points for central obesity in Korean adults. (2007, background): “Another recent study on central obesity in Westerners found different sets of WC values associated with increased risk for cardiovascular disease at the designated BMI values: 90 cm for men and 83 cm for women at 25 kg/m2 BMI, and 100 cm for men and 93 cm for women at 30 kg/m2 BMI [21].”
• 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].”
• Metabolic syndrome vs Framingham Risk Score for prediction of coronary heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes mellitus. (2005, methodology): “9 to be equivalent to a waist circumference of 102 cm, similar to analysis using data from a large US survey.(30) We have therefore used a BMI of 28.”
• International prevalence, recognition, and treatment of cardiovascular risk factors in outpatients with atherothrombosis. (2006, background): “should enable a comparison of these 2 metrics of obesity.(25-28) Furthermore, the thresholds at which obesity is linked”
• The prevalence of polycystic ovary syndrome in a community sample assessed under contrasting diagnostic criteria. (2010, result): “All statistical analyses were carried out in SPSS 15.0.0 for Windows (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA).”