New anthropometric indices or old ones: which perform better in estimating cardiovascular risks in Chinese adults

Optimal cut-off of obesity indices to predict cardiovascular disease risk factors and metabolic syndrome among adults in Northeast China

(2016) Jianxing Yu et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

Abdominal obesity is strongly associated with Cardiovascular Disease and its Risk Factors in Elderly and very Elderly Community-dwelling Chinese

(2016) Huimin Fan et al.   Scientific Reports

Best Anthropometric and Atherogenic Predictors of Metabolic Syndrome in the Chinese Han Population in Xinjiang: The Cardiovascular Risk Survey

(2014) Bang-Dang Chen et al.   ANNALS OF NUTRITION AND METABOLISM

“A Body Shape Index” in Middle-Age and Older Indonesian Population: Scaling Exponents and Association with Incident Hypertension

(2014) Yin Bun Cheung   PLoS One

Entering a New Era of Body Indices: The Feasibility of a Body Shape Index and Body Roundness Index to Identify Cardiovascular Health Status

(2014) Martijn F. H. Maessen et al.   PLoS One

Sex Differences in Diabetes and Risk of Incident Coronary Artery Disease in Healthy Young and Middle-Aged Adults

(2013) Rita Rastogi Kalyani et al.   DIABETES CARE

A method comparison study to validate a novel parameter of obesity, the body adiposity index, in chinese subjects

(2013) Benjamin Chih Chiang Lam et al.   Obesity

Could the New Body Shape Index Predict the New Onset of Diabetes Mellitus in the Chinese Population?

(2013) Sen He et al.   PLoS One

Waist-to-Height Ratio and Cardiovascular Risk Factors among Chinese Adults in Beijing

(2013) Li Cai et al.   PLoS One

Overview of Epidemiology and Contribution of Obesity to Cardiovascular Disease

(2013) Marjorie Bastien et al.   PROGRESS IN CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES

Body mass index and mortality in China: a 15-year prospective study of 220 000 men

(2012) Zhengming Chen et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

(2012) Stephen S Lim et al.   LANCET

A Better Index of Body Adiposity

(2012) Richard N. Bergman   Obesity

A New Body Shape Index Predicts Mortality Hazard Independently of Body Mass Index

(2012) Nir Y. Krakauer et al.   PLoS One

Different anthropometric adiposity measures and their association with cardiovascular disease risk factors: a meta-analysis

(2012) S. B. van Dijk et al.   Netherlands Heart Journal

Ten-week lifestyle changing program reduces several indicators for metabolic syndrome in overweight adults

(2012) Marita S Mecca et al.   Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome

Evaluation of anthropometric indices for metabolic syndrome in Chinese adults aged 40 years and over

(2011) Yan-Hong He et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Childhood Adiposity, Adult Adiposity, and Cardiovascular Risk Factors

(2011) Markus Juonala et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Waist-to-height ratio is a better screening tool than waist circumference and BMI for adult cardiometabolic risk factors: systematic review and meta-analysis

(2011) M. Ashwell et al.   Obesity Reviews

Short stature is associated with coronary heart disease: a systematic review of the literature and a meta-analysis

(2010) Tuula A. Paajanen et al.   EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL

Is central obesity a better discriminator of the risk of hypertension than body mass index in ethnically diverse populations?

(2009)   JOURNAL OF HYPERTENSION

Gender-ethnic Disparity in BMI and Waist Circumference Distribution Shifts in US Adults

(2008) May A. Beydoun et al.   Obesity