Waist/height ratio as a better predictor of type 2 diabetes compared to body mass index in Tehranian adult men - A 3.6-year prospective study

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 310-315

  Hadaegh, F ^a   Zabetian, A ^a   Harati, H ^a   Azizi, F ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Diabetes type 2; Obesity; Waist to height ratio

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; HEIGHT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ADULT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 33746678700     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-924123     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. American Diabetes Association. Diagnosis and classification of diabetes mellitus. Diabetes Care 2004; 27 (Suppl 1): S5-S10
2. Ashwell M, Coled TJ, Dixon AK. Ratio of waist circumference to height is strong predictor of intra-abdominal fat. BMJ 1996; 313: 559-560
3. Azizi F, Rahmani M, Emami H, Mirmiran P, Hajipour R, Madjid M, Ghanbili J, Ghanbarian A, Mehrabi Y, Saadat N, Salehi P, Mortazavi N, Heydarian P, Sarbazi N, Allahverdian S, Saadati N, Ainy E, Moeini S. Cardiovascular risk factors in an Iranian urban population: Tehran lipid and glucose study (phase 1). Soz Praventivmed 2002; 47: 408-426
4. Beegom R, Beegom R, Niaz MA, Singh RB. Diet, central obesity and prevalence of hypertension in the urban population of south India. Int J Cardiol 1995; 51: 183-191
5. Berber A, Gomez-Santos R, Fanghanel G, Sanchez-Reyes L. Anthropometric indexes in the prediction of type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension and dyslipidaemia in a Mexican population. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 2001; 25: 1794-1799
6. Bergstrom RW, Newell-Morris LL, Leonetti DL, Shuman WP, Wahl PW, Fujimoto WY. Association of elevated fasting C-peptide level and increased intra-abdominal fat distribution with development of NIDDM in Japanese-American men. Diabetes 1990; 39: 104-111
7. Bermudez OI, Tucker KL. Total and central obesity among elderly Hispanics and the association with Type 2 diabetes. Obesity Research 2001; 9: 443-451
8. Carey VJ, Walters EE, Colditz GA, Solomon CG, Willett WC, Rosner BA, Speizer FE, Manson JE. Body fat distribution and risk of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in women. The Nurses' Health Study. Am J Epidemiol 1997; 145: 614-619
9. Chobanian AV, Bakris GL, Black HR, Cushman WC, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure; National High Blood Pressure Education Program Coordinating Committee et al. The Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure: the JNC 7 report. JAMA 2003; 289: 2560-2572
10. de Onis M, Blossner M. Prevalence and trends of overweight among preschool children in developing countries. Am J Clin Nutr 2000; 72: 1032-1039
11. DeLong ER, DeLong DM, Clarke-Pearson DL. Comparing the areas under two or more correlated receiver operating characteristic curves: a nonparametric approach. Biometrics 1988; 44: 837-845
12. Esmaillzadeh A, Mirmiran P, Azizi F. Waist-to-hip ratio is a better screening measure for cardiovascular risk factors than other anthropometric indicators in Tehranian adult men. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 2004; 28: 1325-1332
13. Folsom AR, Kushi LH, Anderson KE, Mink PJ, Olson JE, Hong CP, Sellers TA, Lazovich D, Prineas RJ. Associations of general and abdominal obesity with multiple health outcomes in older women: the Iowa Women's Health Study. Arch Intern Med 2000; 160: 2117-2128
14. Fryzek JP, Schenk M, Kinnard M, Greenson JK, Garabrant DH. The association of body mass index and pancreatic cancer in residents of southeastern Michigan, 1996-1999. Am J Epidemiol 2005; 162: 222-228
15. Gallagher D, Visser M, Sepulveda D, Pierson RN, Harris T, Heymsfield SB. How useful is body mass index for comparison of body fatness across age, sex, and ethnic groups? Am J Epidemiol 1996; 143: 228-239
16. Han TS, Feskens EJ, Lean ME, Seidell JC. Associations of body composition with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Diabet Med 1998; 15: 129-135
17. Hsieh SD, Yoshinaga H, Muto T. Waist-to-height ratio, a simple and practical index for assessing central fat distribution and metabolic risk in Japanese men and women. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 2003; 27: 610-616
18. Hsieh SD, Yoshinaga H. Waist/height ratio as a simple and useful predictor of coronary heart disease risk factors in women. Intern Med 1995; 34: 1147-1152
19. Huang KC, Lee MS, Lee SD, Chang YH, Lin YC, Tu SH, Pan WH. Obesity in the elderly and its relationship with cardiovascular risk factors in Taiwan. Obes Res 2005; 13: 170-178
20. Janssen I, Katzmarzyk PT, Ross R. Body mass index, waist circumference, and health risk: evidence in support of current National Institutes of Health guidelines. Arch Intern Med 2002; 162: 2074-2079
21. Kahn HS, Imperatore G, Cheng YJ. A population-based comparison of BMI percentiles and waist-to-height ratio for identifying cardiovascular risk in youth. J Pediatr 2005; 146: 482-488
22. Kahn HS, Valdez R. Metabolic risks identified by the combination of enlarged waist and elevated triacylglycerols. Am J Clin Nutr 2003; 78: 928-934
23. Ko GT, Chan JC, Chow CC, Yeung VT, Chan WB, So WY, Cockram CS. Effects of obesity on the conversion from normal glucose tolerance to diabetes in Hong Kong Chinese. Obes Res 2004; 12: 889-895
24. Lear SA, Chen MM, Frohlich JJ, Birmingham C. The relationship between waist circumference and metabolic risk factors: cohorts of European and Chinese descent. Metabolism 2002; 51: 1427-1432
25. Lin WY, Lee LT, Chen CY, Lo H, Hsia HH, Liu IL, Lin RS, Shau WY, Huang KC. Optimal cut-off values for obesity: using simple anthropometric indices to predict cardiovascular risk factors in Taiwan. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 2002; 26: 1232-1238
26. Mokdad AH, Serdula MK, Dietz WH, Bowman BA, Marks JS, Koplan JP. The continuing epidemic of obesity in the United States. JAMA 2000; 284: 1650-1651
27. Molarius A, Seidell JC. Selection of anthropometric indicators for classification of abdominal fatness - a critical review. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 1998; 22: 719-727
28. Must A, Lipman RD. Childhood energy intake and cancer mortality in adulthood. Nutr Rev 1999; 57: 21-24
29. Ohlson LO, Larsson B, Svardsudd K, Welin L, Eriksson H, Wilhelmsen L, Bjorntorp P, Tibblin G. 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. Diabetes 1985; 34: 1055-1058
30. Okosun IS, Liao Y, Rotimi CN, Choi S, Cooper RS. Predictive values of waist circumference for dyslipidemia, type 2 diabetes and hypertension in overweight white, black, and Hispanic American adults. J Clin Epidemiol 2000; 53: 401-408
31. Passos VM, Barreto SM, Diniz LM, Lima-Costa MF. Type 2 diabetes: prevalence and associated factors in a Brazilian community - the Bambui health and aging study. Sao Paulo Med J 2005; 123: 66-71
32. Pishdad GR. Overweight and obesity in adults aged 20-74 in southern Iran. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 1996; 20: 963-965
33. Pua YH, Ong PH. Anthropometric indices as screening tools for cardiovascular risk factors in Singaporean women. Asia Pac J Clin Nutr 2005; 14: 74-79
34. Rexrode KM, Buring JE, Manson JE. Abdominal and total adiposity and risk of coronary heart disease in men. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 2001; 25: 1047-1056
35. Sanchez-Castillo CP, Velazquez-Monroy O, Berber A, Lara-Esqueda A, Tapia-Conyer R, James WP; Encuesta Nacional de Salud (ENSA) 2000 Working Group. Anthropometric cutoff points for predicting chronic diseases in the Mexican National Health Survey 2000. Obes Res 2003; 11: 442-451
36. Sargeant LA, Bennett FI, Forrester TE, Cooper RS, Wilks RJ. Predicting incident diabetes in Jamaica: the role of anthropometry. Obes Res 2002; 10: 792-798
37. Sarraf-Zadegan N, Sayed-Tabatabaei FA, Bashardoost N, Maleki A, Totonchi M, Habibi HR, Sotodehmaram E, Tafazoli F, Karimi A. The prevalence of coronary artery disease in an urban population in Isfahan, Iran. Acta Cardiol 1999; 54: 257-263
38. Sayeed MA, Mahtab H, Latif ZA, Khanam PA, Ahsan KA, Banu A, Azad Khan AK. Waist-to-height ratio is a better obesity index than body mass index and waist-to-hip ratio for predicting diabetes, hypertension and lipidemia. Bangladesh Med Res Counc Bull 2003; 29: 1-10
39. Snijder MB, Zimmet PZ, Visser M, Dekker JM, Seidell JC, Shaw JE. Independent and opposite associations of waist and hip circumferences with diabetes, hypertension and dyslipidemia: the AusDiab Study. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 2004; 28: 402-409
40. Stevens J, Couper D, Pankow J, Folsom AR, Duncan BB, Nieto FJ, Jones D, Tyroler HA. Sensitivity and specificity of anthropometrics for the prediction of diabetes in a biracial cohort. Obes Res 2001; 9: 696-705
41. Tulloch-Reid MK, Williams DE, Looker HC, Hanson RL, Knowler WC. Do measures of body fat distribution provide information on the risk of type 2 diabetes in addition to measures of general obesity? Comparison of anthropometric predictors of type 2 diabetes in Pima Indians. Diabetes Care 2003; 26: 2556-2561
42. Unger RH. Lipid overloads and overflows metabolic trauma and the metabolic syndrome. Trends Endocrinol Metab 2003a; 14: 398-403
43. Unger RH. Weapons of lean body mass destruction, the role of ectopic lipids in the metabolic syndrome. Endocrinology 2003 b; 144: 5159-5165
44. Wang J, Thornton JC, Bari S, Williamson B, Gallagher D, Heymsfield SB, Horlick M, Kotler D, Laferrere B, Mayer L, Pi-Sunyer FX, Pierson RN Jr. Comparisons of waist circumferences measured at 4 sites. Am J Clin Nutr 2003; 77: 379-384
45. Wang Y, Rimm EB, Stampfer MJ, Willett WC, Hu FB. Comparison of abdominal adiposity and overall obesity in predicting risk of type 2 diabetes among men. Am J Clin Nutr 2005; 81: 555-563
46. Wei M, Gaskill SP, Haffner SM, Stern MP. Waist circumference as the best predictor of noninsulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) compared to body mass index, waist/hip ratio and other anthropometric measurements in Mexican Americans - a 7-year prospective study. Obesity Research 1997; 5: 16-23
47. Willett WC, Dietz WH, Colditz GA. Guidelines for healthy weight. N Engl J Med 1999; 341: 427-434
48. World Health Organization. Obesity epidemic puts millions at risk from related diseases. Press Release WHO/46 (online) 1997; www.who.int/inf-prp 1997/en/pr97-46.html