Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, MacKay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Medical Research, MacKay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Biotechnology, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan; School of Chinese Medicine, College of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan; Institute of Clinical and Community Health Nursing, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan. Electronic address: cpc_mmh@yahoo.com.
Section for Cancer Cytogenetics, Institute for Cancer Genetics and Informatics, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway ioannis.panagopoulos@rr-research.no.
We aimed to examine the association between waist circumference and blood pressure (BP) in children at 9 years of age....
This was a cross-sectional study of 142 children enrolled in a cohort study conducted at the participants' homes in southern Brazil. SBP and DBP were measured using the auscultatory method. Waist circ...
The prevalence of high BP in children was 20.4%. High BP was more prevalent in males (69.0%). The average SBP/DBP on the right arm was 98/60 mmHg in females and 101/62 mmHg in males. An important prop...
This study revealed that waist circumference was associated with both SBP and DBP in 9-year-old children and increased waist circumference was the determining factor of cardiovascular risk....
Waist circumference (WC), calf circumference (CC), and body mass index (BMI) have been independently linked to mortality. However, it's not yet clear how the waist-calf circumference ratio (WCR) relat...
In the 2014 Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey, 4627 participants aged 65 years and older were included, and they were subsequently followed up in 2018. Cox proportional hazards models were...
During a median follow-up of 3.4 years, 1671 deaths (36.1%) occurred. Compared to the second quartile of WCR, the highest quartile had a higher risk of mortality from all causes (HR 1.42, 95%CI 1.24-1...
Higher WCR and lower CC increased the risk of all-cause, CVD, and other-cause mortality. Lower BMI was associated with higher all-cause and respiratory disease mortality risk, while WC only predicted ...
Obesity, especially abdominal obesity, is an independent indicator of increased cardiovascular risk. Observational studies have shown an observational association between obesity and venous thromboemb...
We performed a two-sample test by obtaining the exposure dataset of waist circumference (WC) and hip circumference (HC) from the Neale Laboratory Consortium's genome-wide association study summary dat...
All three Mendelian randomization methods displayed a positive association between WC/HC and VTE/PE. WC and HC were positively associated with VTE (odds ratio [OR] = 1.803 per 1 standard deviation [SD...
There is a significant causal relationship between WC/HC and VTE/PE, which is consistent with observational studies. Taking measures to reduce WC/HC of obesity may help reduce the incidence of VTE/PE....
The association between phthalates exposure and childhood abdominal obesity is still unclear. This study aimed to assess phthalates (PAEs) exposure level and explore the association between PAEs metab...
The detection rate of PAEs metabolites is common, and the exposure level of PAEs metabolites was associated with the risk of abdominal obesity in Chinese students aged 7-10 years....
• The prevalence of childhood abdominal obesity had increased sharply from 4.9% in 1993 to 17.5% in 2014 in China. More than 80% of the Chinese children and adolescents have measurable level of severa...
• The detection rate of PAEs metabolites is common among Chinese children aged 7-10 years. Boys had higher concentrations of PAEs metabolites than girls (P < 0.05), except for monoethyl phthalate. Com...
Childhood obesity is a public health problem globally as well as in Poland. This paper aimed to provide age- and sex-specific waist circumference, hip circumference, waist-to-height ratio and waist-to...
There is a potential risk of causing a pneumothorax during needle electromyography of the diaphragm. The diaphragm depth can be estimated from body mass index (BMI), but this may not be practical in b...
Personal data, weight, height, and WC were collected from healthy volunteers, and the diaphragm depth from the skin and diaphragm thickness of the participants were measured by ultrasonography. These ...
A total of 100 volunteers (48 men and 52 women) were recruited. The median age of the participants was 27 y (interquartile range, 26). The mean WC was 83.3 cm (SD, 7.8 cm). The diaphragm depth ranged ...
The WC-based equation can be used in addition to palpation techniques for guiding needle EMG insertion when ultrasound guidance is not available....
Body mass index (BMI) is a widely used surrogate tool to screen for obesity/adiposity, but it cannot differentiate between lean and fat mass. Thus, alternative tools to detect excess adiposity should ...
This study aimed to compare the performance of BMI, waist circumference (WC) and waist-to-height ratio (WtHR) in predicting Malaysians with excess body fat defined by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry ...
A total of 399 men and women aged ≥40 years were recruited from Klang Valley, Malaysia. The body composition of the subjects, including body fat percentage, was measured by DXA. The weight, height, WC...
BMI [sensitivity = 55.7%, specificity = 86.1%, area under curve (AUC) = 0.709] and WC (sensitivity = 62.7%, specificity = 90.3%, AUC = 0.765) performed moderately in predicting excess adiposity. Their...
The performance of WC in identifying excess adiposity was greater than BMI and WHtR based on AUC values. Modification of cut-off values for BMI and WC could improve their performance and should be con...
Hypertension is a public health issue touted as a "silent killer" worldwide. The present study aimed to explore the sex differential in the association of anthropometric measures including body mass i...
Obesity is the prominent modifiable risk factor known to influence the occurrence and progression of diabetes other than age, and the objective of this study was to evaluate and compare the predictive...
The study subjects were 12,823 individuals with normoglycemic at baseline who underwent health screening and had measurements of BMI, WC, and WHtR. The outcome of interest was new-onset diabetes durin...
During a median follow-up period of 7.02 years, with a maximum follow-up of 13 years, 320 new-onset diabetes were recorded. After adjusting for confounders and comparing standardized hazard ratios (HR...
Our analysis sustained that central obesity is a more important predictor of diabetes, and in clinical practice, we proposed measuring WHtR as a useful tool for predicting future diabetes....
Evidence from the literature points towards a viable choice of utilizing Labisia pumila to improve the metabolic profile in animal studies. To that end, this prospective study was designed to assess t...
A dose-ranging analysis using SKF7® was conducted through a randomized, double-blind, multicentre, placebo-controlled, phase 2 clinical trial involving individuals with obesity (N = 133) between Janua...
Average treatment effect estimates (treatment group vs. placebo) show a statistically significant reduction in the percentage of change for BW (mean = -2.915; CI: -4.546, -1.285), BMI (-2.921; CI: -4....
SKF7® is potentially a novel therapeutic treatment for obesity, reflected by reductions in BW, BMI, WC and WHtR. The use of SKF7® suggests a dose-dependent reduction in abdominal obesity, exemplified ...
