In this issue of the Journal, Schuurman et al. (1) investigate the association between several anthropometric measures and the risk of prostate cancer among approximately 60,000 male participants of the Netherlands Cohort Study. In many ways, their findings echo the results of most previous cohort and casecontrol studies on this topic in that they are largely inconclusive. As discussed by Schuu...

There are certain Anthropometric measures which are important risk factors for development of non insulin dependent Diabetes. Previous studies have shown that body mass index (BMI) and waist hip circumference ratio (WHR) as well as other anthropometric measurements are predictive of NIDDM[1]. Shalom Nwodo Chinedu et al. also studied the correlation between body mass index and waist circumferenc...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Anthropometric measures such as body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) have differential associations with incident chronic kidney disease (CKD) and mortality. We examined the associations of BMI and WC with various CKD complications. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of 2,853 adult participants with CKD in the National Health and Nutrition Examinatio...

Objectives—The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of various obesity measures on identification of subjects at risk and their respective risk estimates for VTE in a prospective population-based study. Methods and Results—Measures of body composition such as body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), hip circumference (HC), and waist-hip ratio (WHR) were registered in 6708 subj...

BACKGROUND Quantitating fat and lean tissue in isolated body regions may be helpful or required in obesity and health-outcomes research. However, current methods of regional body composition measurement require specialized, expensive equipment such as that used in computed tomography or dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA). Simple body size or circumference measurement relationships to body ...