Changes in waist circumference and the incidence of acute myocardial infarction in middle-aged men and women

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Berentzen, Tina Landsvig ^a   Jakobsen, Marianne Uhre ^b   Stegger, Jakob Gerhard ^c   Halkjaer, Jytte ^d   Tjønneland, Anne ^d   Sørensen, Thorkild I A ^a   Overvad, Kim ^b,c  

^a The Capital Region   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d INSTITUTE OF CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; BODY MASS; CHANGES IN WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; HEART INFARCTION; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 79961134317     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026849     Document Type: Review

References (43)

1. Bogers RP, Bemelmans WJ, Hoogenveen RT, Boshuizen HC, Woodward M, et al. (2007) Association of overweight with increased risk of coronary heart disease partly independent of blood pressure and cholesterol levels: a meta-analysis of 21 cohort studies including more than 300 000 persons. Arch Intern Med 167: 1720-1728.
2. Anderson JW, Konz EC, (2001) Obesity and disease management: effects of weight loss on comorbid conditions. Obes Res 9: 326S-334S.
3. Dattilo AM, Kris-Etherton PM, (1992) Effects of weight reduction on blood lipids and lipoproteins: a meta-analysis. Am J Clin Nutr 56: 320-328.
4. Sierra-Johnson J, Romero-Corral A, Somers VK, Lopez-Jimenez F, Thomas RJ, et al. (2008) Prognostic importance of weight loss in patients with coronary heart disease regardless of initial body mass index. Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil 15: 336-340.
5. Walker M, Wannamethee G, Whincup PH, Shaper AG, (1995) Weight change and risk of heart attack in middle-aged British men. Int J Epidemiol 24: 694-703.
6. Rosengren A, Wedel H, Wilhelmsen L, (1999) Body weight and weight gain during adult life in men in relation to coronary heart disease and mortality. A prospective population study. Eur Heart J 20: 269-277.
7. Berentzen T, Sorensen TI, Effects of intended weight loss on morbidity and mortality: possible explanations of controversial results (2006). Nutr Rev 64: 502-507.
8. Eilat-Adar S, Goldbourt U, Resnick HE, Howard BV, (2005) Intentional weight loss, blood lipids and coronary morbidity and mortality. Curr Opin Lipidol 16: 5-9.
9. Canoy D, Boekholdt SM, Wareham N, Luben R, Welch A, et al. (2007) Body fat distribution and risk of coronary heart disease in men and women in the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition in Norfolk cohort: a population-based prospective study. Circulation 116: 2933-2943.
10. Dey DK, Lissner L, (2003) Obesity in 70-year-old subjects as a risk factor for 15-year coronary heart disease incidence. Obes Res 11: 817-827.
11. Kanaya AM, Vittinghoff E, Shlipak MG, Resnick HE, Visser M, et al. (2003) Association of total and central obesity with mortality in postmenopausal women with coronary heart disease. Am J Epidemiol 158: 1161-1170.
12. Rexrode KM, Carey VJ, Hennekens CH, Walters EE, Colditz GA, et al. (1998) Abdominal adiposity and coronary heart disease in women. JAMA 280: 1843-1848.
13. Rexrode KM, Buring JE, Manson JE, (2001) Abdominal and total adiposity and risk of coronary heart disease in men. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 25: 1047-1056.
14. Rimm EB, Stampfer MJ, Giovannucci E, Ascherio A, Spiegelman D, et al. (1995) Body size and fat distribution as predictors of coronary heart disease among middle-aged and older US men. Am J Epidemiol 141: 1117-1127.
15. Zhang X, Shu XO, Gao YT, Yang G, Matthews CE, et al. (2004) Anthropometric predictors of coronary heart disease in Chinese women. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 28: 734-740.
16. Heitmann BL, Frederiksen P, Lissner L, (2004) Hip circumference and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in men and women. Obes Res 2004 12: 482-487.
17. Ross R, Berentzen T, Bradshaw AJ, Janssen I, Kahn HS, et al. (2008) Does the relationship between waist circumference, morbidity and mortality depend on measurement protocol for waist circumference? Obes Rev 9: 312-325.
18. Stevens J, Keil JE, Rust PF, Verdugo RR, Davis CE, et al. (1992) Body mass index and body girths as predictors of mortality in black and white men. Am J Epidemiol 135: 1137-1146.
19. Stevens J, Keil JE, Rust PF, Tyroler HA, Davis CE, Gazes PC, et al. (1992) Body mass index and body girths as predictors of mortality in black and white women. Arch Intern Med 152: 1257-1262.
20. Stegger JG, Schmidt EB, Obel T, Berentzen TL, Tjonneland A, et al. (2011) Body composition and body fat distribution in relation to later risk of acute myocardial infarction: a Danish follow-up study. Int J Obes (Lond). Epub ahead of print.
21. Despres JP, Moorjani S, Lupien PJ, Tremblay A, Nadeau A, (1990) Regional distribution of body fat, plasma lipoproteins, and cardiovascular disease. Arteriosclerosis 10: 497-511.
22. Bjorntorp P, (1997) Obesity. Lancet 350: 423-426.
23. Fujimoto WY, Bergstrom RW, Boyko EJ, Chen KW, Leonetti DL, et al. (1999) Visceral adiposity and incident coronary heart disease in Japanese-American men. The 10-year follow-up results of the Seattle Japanese-American Community Diabetes Study. Diabetes Care 22: 1808-1812.
24. Heitmann BL, Lissner L, Hip Hip Hurrah!Hip size inversely related to heart disease and total mortality (2011). Obes Rev 12: 478-481.
25. Manolopoulos KN, Karpe F, Frayn KN, (2010) Gluteofemoral body fat as a determinant of metabolic health. Int J Obes (Lond) 34: 949-959.
26. Berentzen TL, Jakobsen MU, Halkjaer J, Tjonneland A, Overvad K, et al. (2010) Changes in waist circumference and mortality in middle-aged men and women. PLoS One 5.
27. Tjonneland A, Olsen A, Boll K, Stripp C, Christensen J, et al. (2007) Study design, exposure variables, and socioeconomic determinants of participation in Diet, Cancer and Health: a population-based prospective cohort study of 57,053 men and women in Denmark. Scand J Public Health 35: 432-441.
28. Tjonneland AM, Overvad OK, (2000) Diet, cancer and health--a population study and establishment of a biological bank in Denmark. Ugeskr Laeger 162: 350-354.
29. Andersen TF, Madsen M, Jorgensen J, Mellemkjoer L, Olsen JH, (1999) The Danish National Hospital Register. A valuable source of data for modern health sciences. Dan Med Bull 46: 263-268.
30. Juel K, Helweg-Larsen K, (1999) The Danish registers of causes of death. Dan Med Bull 46: 354-357.
31. Joensen AM, Jensen MK, Overvad K, Dethlefsen C, Schmidt E, et al. (2009) Predictive values of acute coronary syndrome discharge diagnoses differed in the Danish National Patient Registry. J Clin Epidemiol 62: 188-194.
32. Tjonneland A, Overvad K, Haraldsdottir J, Bang S, Ewertz M, et al. (1991) Validation of a semiquantitative food frequency questionnaire developed in Denmark. Int J Epidemiol 20: 906-912.
33. Wareham NJ, Jakes RW, Rennie KL, Schuit J, Mitchell J, et al. (2003) Validity and repeatability of a simple index derived from the short physical activity questionnaire used in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study. Public Health Nutr 4: 407-413.
34. Overvad K, Tjonneland A, Haraldsdottir J, Ewertz M, Jensen OM, (1991) Development of a semiquantitative food frequency questionnaire to assess food, energy and nutrient intake in Denmark. Int J Epidemiol 20: 900-905.
35. Trichopoulou A, Orfanos P, Norat T, Bueno-de-Mesquita B, Ocke MC, et al. (2005) Modified Mediterranean diet and survival: EPIC-elderly prospective cohort study. BMJ 330: 991.
36. Mikkelsen KL, Heitmann BL, Keiding N, Sorensen TIA, (1999) Independent effects of stable and changing body weight on total mortality. Epidemiology 10: 671-678.
37. Kristensen JK, Sandbaek A, Lassen JF, Bro F, Lauritzen T, (2001) Use and validation of public data files for identification of the diabetic population in a Danish county. Dan Med Bull 48: 33-37.
38. Harrel jF, (2002) Relaxing linearity assumption for continuous predictors. With applications to linear models, logistic regression, and survial analyses New York Springer.
39. Greenland S, (1995) Dose-response and trend analysis in epidemiology alternatives to categorical analysis. Epidemiology 6: 356-365.
40. McGill HC Jr, Herderick EE, McMahan CA, Zieske AW, Malcolm GT, et al. (2002) Atherosclerosis in youth. Minerva Pediatr 54: 437-447.
41. McGill HC Jr, McMahan CA, Herderick EE, Zieske AW, Malcom GT, et al. (2002) Obesity accelerates the progression of coronary atherosclerosis in young men. Circulation 105: 2712-2718.
42. Bigaard J, Spanggaard I, Thomsen BL, Overvad K, Tjonneland A, (2005) Self-reported and technician-measured waist circumferences differ in middle-aged men and women. J Nutr 2005 135: 2263-2270.
43. Kuk JL, Saunders TJ, Davidson LE, Ross R, (2009) Age-related changes in total and regional fat distribution. Ageing Res Rev 8: 339-348.