Waist circumference vs body mass index for prediction of disease risk in postmenopausal women

International Journal of Obesity

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1183-1188

  Van Pelt, R E ^a,b   Evans, E M ^a   Schechtman, K B ^a   Ehsani, A A ^a   Kohrt, W M ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease risk; Waist circumference; Women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HYPERINSULINEMIA; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERINSULINISM; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 0034906654     PISSN: 03070565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ijo.0801640     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Body weight and mortality among women
2. The effect of age on the association between body-mass index and mortality
3. The influence of body fat distribution on the incidence of diabetes mellitus: 13.5 years of follow-up of the participants in the study of men born in 1913
4. Narrow hips and broad waist circumferences independently contribute to increased risk of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus
5. Abdominal adiposity and coronary heart disease in women
6. Body fat distribution and 5-year risk of death in older women
7. Body fat distribution, insulin resistance, and metabolic diseases
8. The insulin resistance-dyslipidemic syndrome of visceral obesity: Effect on patient's risk
9. Sex- and menopause-associated changes in body-fat distribution
10. Risk factors that attenuate the female coronary disease advantage
11. Changes in energy balance and body composition at menopause: A controlled longitudinal study
12. Weight gain at the time of menopause
13. Waist circumference and abdominal sagittal diameter: Best simple anthropometric indexes of abdominal visceral adipose tissue accumulation and related cardiovascular risk in men and women
14. Impairment of health and quality of life in people with large waist circumference
15. Report of the expert committee on the diagnosis and classification of diabetes mellitus
16. Body composition of healthy sedentary and trained, young and older men and women
17. Densitometric analysis of body composition: Revision of some quantitative assumptions
18. 2+ precipitation procedure for quantification of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol
19. Estimation of the concentration of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in plasma, without the use of the preparative ultracentrifuge
20. Immunoassay of insulin: Two antibody system
21. Reproductive history in relation to relative weight and fat distribution
22. Effect of postmenopausal hormone therapy on body weight and waist and hip girths
23. Body weight, body fat distribution, and hormonal replacement therapy in early postmenopausal women
24. Effects of hormone replacement therapy on endometrial histology in postmenopausal women
25. Effects of postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy on central abdominal fat, glycemic control, lipid metabolism, and vascular factors in type 2 diabetes: A prospective study
26. Smaller differences in total and regional adiposity with age in regularly exercising compared with sedentary women
27. Exercise training improves fat distribution patterns in 60- to 70-yr-old men and women
28. HRT preserves increases in bone mineral density and reductions in body fat after a supervised exercise program