Can body mass index, waist circumference, waist-hip ratio and waist-height ratio predict the presence of multiple metabolic risk factors in Chinese subjects?

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Liu, Yong ^a   Tong, Guanghui ^a   Tong, Weiwei ^a   Lu, Liping ^a   Qin, Xiaosong ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BODY MASS; CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DYSLIPIDEMIA; FEMALE; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY MASS INDEX; CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DYSLIPIDEMIAS; FEMALE; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 78651297656     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-35     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Age- and gender-related differences in correlations between abdominal obesity and obesity-related metabolic risk factors in Japanese. E Oda R Kawai, Intern Med 2009 48 497 502 10.2169/internalmedicine.48.1765 19336950
2. Body-mass index and cause-specific mortality in 900 000 adults: collaborative analyses of 57 prospective studies. G Whitlock S Lewington P Sherliker R Clarke J Emberson J Halsey N Qizilbash R Collins R Peto, Lancet 2009 373 1083 1096 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)60318-4 19299006
3. Is the diagnosis of metabolic syndrome useful for predicting cardiovascular disease in asian diabetic patients? Analysis from the Japan Diabetes Complications Study. H Sone S Mizuno H Fujii Y Yoshimura Y Yamasaki S Ishibashi S Katayama Y Saito H Ito Y Ohashi Y Akanuma N Yamada Japan Diabetes Complications Study, Diabetes Care 2005 28 1463 1471 10.2337/diacare.28.6.1463 15920069
4. The metabolic syndrome and total and cardiovascular disease mortality in middleaged men. HM Lakka DE Laaksonen TA Lakka LK Niskanen E Kumpusalo J Tuomilehto JT Salonen, JAMA 2002 288 2709 2716 10.1001/jama.288.21.2709 12460094
5. Cardiovascular morbidity and mortality associated with the metabolic syndrome. B Isomaa P Almgren T Tuomi B Forsén K Lahti M Nissén MR Taskinen L Groop, Diabetes Care 2001 24 683 689 10.2337/diacare.24.4.683 11315831
6. Definition of metabolic syndrome: Report of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute/American Heart Association conference on scientific issues related to definition. SM Grundy HB Brewer Jr JI Cleeman SC Smith Jr C Lenfant, Circulation 2004 109 433 438 10.1161/01.CIR.0000111245.75752.C6 14744958
7. Reducing risks, promoting healthy life - The World Health Report. World Health Organization, Geneva: World Health Organization 2002
8. Waist-hip ratio is the dominant risk factor predicting cardiovascular death in Australia. TA Welborn SS Dhaliwal SA Bennett, Med J Aust 2003 179 580 585 14636121
9. Prediction of hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidaemia or albuminuria using simple anthropometric indexes in Hong Kong Chinese. GT Ko JC Chan CS Cockram J Woo, Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 1999 23 1136 1142 10.1038/sj.ijo.0801043 10578203
10. Waist circumference, waist-hip ratio and body mass index and their correlation with cardiovascular disease risk factors in Australian adults. M Dalton AJ Cameron PZ Zimmet JE Shaw D Jolley DW Dunstan TA Welborn AusDiab Steering Committee, J Intern Med 2003 254 555 563 10.1111/j.1365-2796.2003. 01229.x 14641796
11. Population differences in body composition in relation to the body mass index. NG Norgan, Eur J Clin Nutr 1994 48 10 25 discussion: S6-7 7843146
12. How useful is the body mass index for comparison of body fatness across age, sex, and ethnic groups. D Gallagher M Visser D Sepu'lveda RN Pierson T Harris SB Heymsfield, Am J Epidemiol 1996 143 228 239 8561156
13. The effect of sex, age and race on estimating percentage body fat from body mass index: the Heritage Family Study. AS Jackson PR Stanforth J Gagnon T Rankinen AS Leon DC Rao JS Skinner C Bouchard JH Wilmore, Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 2002 26 789 796 10.1038/sj.ijo.0802006 12037649
14. Is a re-evaluation of WHO body mass index cut-off values needed? The case of Asians in Singapore. M Deurenberg-Yap P Deurenberg, Nutr Rev 2003 61 80 S87 10.1301/nr.2003.may.S80-S87 12828197
15. Body size, body composition, and fat distribution: a comparison of young New Zealand men of European, Pacific Island and Asian Indian ethnicities. E Rush LD Plank V Chandu M Laulu D Simmons B Swinburn C Yajnik, N Z Med J 2004 117 1203 15608799
16. Differences in the relationship between BMI and percentage body fat between Japanese and Australian-Caucasian youths. M Kagawa D Kerr H Uchida CW Binns, Br J Nutr 2006 95 1002 1007 10.1079/BJN20061745 16611393
17. Obesity: Preventing and managing the global epidemic: Report of a WHO Consultation on Obesity. World Health Organization, Geneva, World Health Organization 1998
18. Body mass index, waist girth and waist-to-hip ratio as indexes of total and regional adiposity in women: evaluation using receiver operating characteristic curves. RW Taylor D Keil EJ Gold SM Williams A Goulding, Am J Clin Nutr 1998 67 44 49 9440374
19. Simple anthropometric measures identify fasting hyperinsulinemia and clustering of cardiovascular risk factors in Asian Indian adolescents. A Misra M Madhavan NK Vikram RM Pandey V Dhingra K Luthra, Metabolism 2006 55 1569 1573 10.1016/j.metabol.2006.06.029 17142126
20. Impact of obesity and body fat distribution on cardiovascular risk factors in Hong Kong Chinese. GN Thomas SY Ho KS Lam ED Janus AJ Hedley TH Lam, Obes Res 2004 12 1805 1813 10.1038/oby.2004.224 15601976
21. Race-ethnicity-specific waist circumference cutoffs for identifying cardiovascular disease risk factors. S Zhu SB Heymsfield H Toyoshima Z Wang A Pietrobelli S Heshka, Am J Clin Nutr 2005 81 409 415 15699228
22. World Health Organization Western Pacific Region International Association for the Study of Obesity International Obesity Task Force: The Asian-Pacific Perspective: Redefining Obesity and its Treatment. World Health Organization Pacific Region, Geneva; 2000.
23. Ethnic differences in the relationships of anthropometric measures to metabolic risk factors in Asian patients at risk of atherothrombosis: results from the REduction of Atherothrombosis for Continued Health (REACH) Registry. TD Wang S Goto DL Bhatt PG Steg JC Chan AJ Richard CS Liau REACH Registry Investigators, Metabolism 2010 59 400 408 10.1016/j.metabol.2009.08.009 19800641
24. The association between body mass index and hypertension is different between East and Southeast Asians. TT Nguyen LS Adair CM Suchindran K He BM Popkin, Am J Clin Nut 2009 89 1905 1912 10.3945/ajcn.2008.26809
25. Metabolic syndrome in Japanese diagnosed with visceral fat measurement by computed tomography. T Miyawaki M Hirata K Moriyama Y Sasaki H Aono N Saito K Nakao, Proc Japan Acad 2005 81 471 479 10.2183/pjab.81.471
26. Optimal cutoff points of waist circumference for the criteria of abdominal obesity: comparison with the criteria of the International Diabetes Federation. I Baik, Circ J 2009 73 2068 2075 10.1253/circj.CJ-09-0303 19713651
27. Cutoff values for central obesity in Chinese based on mesenteric fat thickness. GT Ko KH Liu WY So PC Tong RC Ma R Ozaki AP Kong CY Yeung X Yang CS Ho WC Chu JC Chan, Clin Nutr 2009 28 679 683 10.1016/j.clnu.2009.05.017 19560238
28. Waist circumference and obesity-associated risk factors among whites in the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey: clinical action thresholds. S Zhu Z Wang S Heshka M Heo MS Faith SB Heymsfield, Am J Clin Nutr 2002 76 743 749 12324286
29. Waist circumference and not body mass index explains obesity-related health risk. I Janssen PT Katzmarzyk R Ross, Am J Clin Nutr 2004 79 379 384 14985210
30. Ethnic comparisons of the cross-sectional relationships between measures of body size with diabetes and hypertension. R Huxley WPT James F Barzi JV Patel SA Lear P Suriyawongpaisal E Janus I Caterson P Zimmet D Prabhakaran S Reddy M Woodward Obesity in Asia Collaboration, Obes Rev 2008 9 53 61 10.1111/j.1467-789X.2007.00439.x 18307700
31. Six reasons why the waist-to-height ratio is a rapid and effective global indicator for health risks of obesity and how its use could simplify the international public health message on obesity. M Ashwell SD Hsieh, Int J Food Sci Nutr 2005 56 303 307 10.1080/09637480500195066 16236591
32. Which obesity indicators are better predictors of metabolic risk? Healthy Twin Study. K Lee YM Song J Sung, Obesity (Silver Spring) 2008 16 834 840 10.1038/oby.2007.109 18239595
33. Waist to stature ratio is more strongly associated with cardiovascular risk factors than other simple anthropometric indices. SY Ho TH Lam ED Janus, Ann Epidemiol 2003 13 683 691 10.1016/S1047-2797(03)00067-X 14599732
34. A proposal of combined evaluation of waist circumference and BMI for the diagnosis of metabolic syndrome. M Takahashi K Shimomura P Proks TJ Craig M Negishi M Akuzawa R Hayashi Y Shimomura I Kobayashi, Endocr J 2009 56 1079 1082 10.1507/endocrj.K09E-197 19734693
35. Measuring the accuracy of diagnostic systems. JA Swets, Science 1988 240 1285 1293 10.1126/science.3287615 3287615