OBJECTIVE Puerto Rican children could have a higher prevalence of obesity, compared to US children or even to US Hispanic children. Obese youths are more likely to have risk factors for cardiovascular conditions, such as hypertension. Although BMI provides a simple, convenient measurement of obesity, it does not measure body fat distribution, associated with mortality and morbidity. Waist circu...

CONTEXT To date, it is unclear which measure of obesity is the most appropriate for risk stratification. OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to compare the associations of various measures of obesity with incident cardiovascular events and mortality. DESIGN AND SETTING We analyzed two German cohort studies, the DETECT study and SHIP, including primary care and general population. PARTICIPA...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to determine the level of adiposity and obesity in Polish adolescents and compare the results with earlier studies conducted in this population as well as those carried out in other populations. METHODS The study group consisted of 456 boys and 514 girls aged 14-18 years living in Cracow chosen from randomly selected secondary schools....

BACKGROUND Hypertension is closely related with obesity in pediatric population. Obesity indices were used for screening elevated blood pressure (BP) in children and adolescents. The present study was to perform a meta-analysis to assess the performance of obesity indices, body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR), for identifying elevated BP in children ...

the purpose of this study was to examine the relation between daily steps and aerobic steps, and anthropometric variables, using the waist-to-hip ratio (whr) and waist-to-height ratio (whtr).the participants in this cross-sectional study were taken the measurements of by a trained anthropologist and then instructed to wear an omron pedometer for seven consecutive days. a series of statistical t...

Background and Objectives: There is a shortage of criteria referent standards for tests logistic application meant to estimate the cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) children adolescents in Republic North Macedonia. The goal research was twofold: (1) To identify ability CRF estimated by 20-m shuttle-run test (20mSRT) discriminate between “healthy” “unhealthy” phenotypes (by adiposity measures such...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the association between obesity indices and blood pressure (BP) at 4 years of age, in each sex, and to quantify to which extent this association is mediated by inflammation and insulin resistance (IR). MATERIALS AND METHODS We studied 1250 4-year-old children selected from the population-based birth cohort Generation XXI. Associations between body mass index (BMI) z-scor...

BACKGROUND There is now overwhelming scientific evidence that central obesity, as opposed to total obesity assessed by body mass index (BMI), is associated with the most health risks and that the waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) is a simple proxy for this central fat distribution. This Opinion reviews the evidence for the use of WHtR to predict mortality and for its association with morbidity. A bo...

BACKGROUND To examine the prevalence of diabetes and prediabetes in Songming county, Yunnan province, South-west China and examine influences of anthropometric indicators on diabetic risk. METHODS This study was a population based cross-sectional study of 1031 subjects in Songming County aged 30 years and older. Age-standardization was performed by using the 2010 Songming population as the st...

Many diseases are associated with excess abdominal fat like cardiovascular diseases. Monitoring and controlling led to one of the many factors that can change status a person’s health. Awareness waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) be guide adjusting lifestyle maintaining normal WHtR value. This study developed assessment device automatically calculates value, displays health status, suggests ideal wai...