Association between anthropometric measures of obesity and subclinical atherosclerosis in Bangladesh

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 232, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 234-241

  Ge, Wenzhen ^a   Parvez, Faruque ^b   Wu, Fen ^a   Islam, Tariqul ^c   Ahmed, Alauddin ^c   Shaheen, Ishrat ^c   Sarwar, Golam ^c   Demmer, Ryan T ^b   Desvarieux, Moise ^b,d,e   Ahsan, Habibul ^f   Chen, Yu ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

^c Columbia University Arsenic Research Project ^*  (Bangladesh)

^d INSERM   (France)

^e EHESP SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropometric measures; Carotid intima media thickness (cIMT); Preclinical atherosclerosis; Waist hip ratio (WHR)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BANGLADESH; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HIP CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MID UPPER ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THIGH CIRCUMFERENCE; UPPER THIGH CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO; WAIST TO HEIGHT RATIO;

ANTHROPOMETRIC MEASURES; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS (CIMT); PRECLINICAL ATHEROSCLEROSIS; WAIST-HIP-RATIO (WHR);

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BANGLADESH; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; THIGH; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST-HIP RATIO; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891609679     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: 18791484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2013.11.035     Document Type: Article

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