Tag: waist-to-height ratio

A study of UK Biobank participants indicates that mortality risks associated with mild reductions in kidney function are more pronounced ...

A cross-sectional survey of 311 college students in New Delhi found that body shape concerns strongly predicted disordered eating attitudes ...

A cross-sectional pilot study reveals that retinal microvascular remodeling in men with hypogonadism correlates significantly with direct body fat and ...

A cross-sectional study in Ica, Peru, found that 50.9% of schoolchildren had excess weight and central obesity, while 23.5% had ...

Higher abdominal obesity measures are associated with increased long-term risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in adults without traditional cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome ...

A prospective study from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study found that both the cholesterol-HDL-glucose waist-to-height ratio and TyG-WHtR ...

A retrospective study of 200 overweight and obese females found that visceral adiposity and waist-to-height ratio were significantly associated with ...

A population-based study of 3,524 adults in Białystok, Poland, found 63.5% had overweight or obesity by BMI and that combining ...

A cross-sectional NHANES analysis of 4,683 adults with diabetes or prediabetes links four novel anthropometric indices to a higher prevalence ...

A decade-spanning cross-sectional study of community-dwelling adults at high risk of stroke finds that higher homocysteine levels and waist-to-height ratio ...

A study of 572 young Iranian adults found that BMI, waist circumference, waist-to-height ratio, BRI and ABSI all failed to ...

A 28-year cohort study found that waist-to-height ratio was the more reliable of six body-size indicators for first-time myocardial infarction ...

Two prospective cohorts and a meta-analysis linked higher BMI and abdominal adiposity with increased risks of aortic dissection and death ...

A study of 104,248 Chinese adults found that waist-to-height ratio and the body roundness index best discriminate hypertension risk overall, ...

A new cross-sectional study of 123 adults finds that obesity awareness is unrelated to BMI, waist-hip ratio, and waist-to-height ratio, ...

In recent years, the medical community has increasingly acknowledged the complexity of obesity as a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, ...