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Population-based references for waist and hip circumferences, waist-to-hip and waist-to-height ratios for children and adolescents, and evaluation of their predictive ability
Childhood obesity is a public health problem globally as well as in Poland. This paper aimed to provide age- and sex-specific waist circumference,...
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Development and validation of an accurate smartphone application for measuring waist-to-hip circumference ratio
Waist-to-hip circumference ratio (WHR) is now recognized as among the strongest shape biometrics linked with health outcomes, although use of this...
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Waist-hip ratio is superior to BMI in predicting liver-related outcomes and synergizes with harmful alcohol use
Background:Obesity is associated with liver disease, but the best obesity-related predictor remains undefined. Controversy exists regarding possible...
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Waist–hip ratio measured by bioelectrical impedance analysis as a valuable predictor of chronic kidney disease development
Obesity is a major health problem worldwide and is associated with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Body mass index (BMI) is a common method of...
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Longitudinal metabolomics of increasing body-mass index and waist-hip ratio reveals two dynamic patterns of obesity pandemic
Background/ObjectiveThis observational study dissects the complex temporal associations between body-mass index (BMI), waist-hip ratio (WHR) and...
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Risk of Sleep Apnea Is Associated with Abdominal Obesity Among Asian Americans: Comparing Waist-to-Hip Ratio and Body Mass Index
ObjectiveThis study examines associations between the risk of sleep apnea and abdominal obesity (assessed by waist-to-hip ratio (WHR)) and general...
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DNA methylation and waist-to-hip ratio: an epigenome-wide association study in Chinese monozygotic twins
PurposeEpigenetic signatures such as DNA methylation may be associated with specific obesity traits. We performed an epigenome-wide association study...
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Changes in body mass index, weight, and waist-to-hip ratio over five years in HIV-positive individuals in the HIV Heart Aging Study compared to the general population
PurposeOverweight and obesity have increased in people living with HIV (PLH). Our study evaluated weight, body-mass-index (BMI), and waist-to-hip...
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Waist circumference, waist-hip ratio, body fat rate, total body fat mass and risk of low back pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis
PurposeTo identify the associations between waist circumference (WC), waist-hip ratio (WHR), body fat rate (BFR), total body fat mass (BFM), and the...
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Waist-hip ratio is an independent predictor of moderate-to-severe OSA in nonobese males: a cross-sectional study
BackgroundAdiposity is a well-established risk factor for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), but whether a combination of preferable anthropometric...
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Associations of Body Mass Index, Visceral Fat Area, Waist Circumference, and Waist-to-Hip Ratio with Cognitive Function in Western China: Results from WCHAT Study
ObjectivesThis study examined the relationship between cognitive performance and obesity parameters, such as body mass index (BMI), visceral fat area...
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Malnutrition inflammation score (MIS) is stronger predictor of mortality in hemodialysis patients than waist-to-hip ratio (WHR)-4-year follow-up
PurposeThe main purpose of this study is to correlate the significance of the malnutrition inflammation score (MIS) and the waist-to-hip ratio (WHR)...
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Risk factors mediating the effect of body mass index and waist-to-hip ratio on cardiovascular outcomes: Mendelian randomization analysis
BackgroundHigher body mass index (BMI) and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, but the extent to which this is...
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Does body mass index or waist-hip ratio correlate with arterial stiffness based on brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity in Chinese rural adults with hypertension?
BackgroundThe relationship between obesity indices and arterial stiffness (AS) has not been fully discovered nor has it been studied in depth in...
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Body mass index, waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, and body fat in relation to health care use in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging
Background/objectivesObesity is associated with increased health care use (HCU), but it is unclear whether this is consistent across all measures of...
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Revisiting an old relationship: the causal associations of the ApoB/ApoA1 ratio with cardiometabolic diseases and relative risk factors—a mendelian randomization analysis
BackgroundIt has been confirmed that the ApoB/ApoA1 ratio is closely associated with the incidence of cardiometabolic diseases (CMD). However, due to...
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Predictive markers of metabolically healthy obesity in children and adolescents: can AST/ALT ratio serve as a simple and reliable diagnostic indicator?
This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of metabolically healthy obesity (MHO) according to two different consensus-based criteria and to...
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Interaction between depressive symptoms and obesity-related anthropometric measures on multimorbidity among community-dwelling older adults: evidence from India
BackgroundThis study aimed to examine the associations between depressive symptoms, body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, waist-hip ratio and...
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Is waist-to-height ratio the best predictive indicator of cardiovascular disease incidence in hypertensive adults? A cohort study
BackgroundCardiovascular disease (CVD) brings high mortality and economic burden to patients, especially in rural areas. Simple, low-cost abdominal...
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Causal analysis of body composition measurements in osteoarthritis knee: a two-sample mendelian randomization study
BackgroundTo analyse the causal associations of different physical measures with osteoarthritis knee (KOA).
MethodsExposure factors (weight, body...
