Abdominal obesity vs general obesity for identifying arterial stiffness, subclinical atherosclerosis and wave reflection in healthy, diabetics and hypertensive

Increase in Body Mass Index, Waist Circumference and Waist-to-Height Ratio is Associated with High Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents in China

(2013) Y-H Hu et al.   JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH

Usefulness of Baseline Obesity to Predict Development of a High Ankle Brachial Index (from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis)

(2011) Geoffrey H. Tison et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY

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

(2011) Yong Liu et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

Central Obesity and Survival in Subjects With Coronary Artery Disease

(2011) Thais Coutinho et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Body Mass Index and Diabetes in Asia: A Cross-Sectional Pooled Analysis of 900,000 Individuals in the Asia Cohort Consortium

(2011) Paolo Boffetta et al.   PLoS One

Comparison of the associations of body mass index and measures of central adiposity and fat mass with coronary heart disease, diabetes, and all-cause mortality: a study using data from 4 UK cohorts

(2010) Amy E Taylor et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

Measures of Adiposity and Future Risk of Ischemic Stroke and Coronary Heart Disease in Older Men and Women

(2010) J. R. Kizer et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Measuring Abdominal Obesity: Effects of Height on Distribution of Cardiometabolic Risk Factors Risk Using Waist Circumference and Waist-to-Height Ratio

(2010) H. J. Schneider et al.   DIABETES CARE

Measures of overweight and obesity and risk of cardiovascular disease: a population-based study

(2010) Thomas S.G. Sehested et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR PREVENTION & REHABILITATION

The Predictive Value of Different Measures of Obesity for Incident Cardiovascular Events and Mortality

(2010) Harald J. Schneider et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM

A systematic review of waist-to-height ratio as a screening tool for the prediction of cardiovascular disease and diabetes: 0·5 could be a suitable global boundary value

(2010) Lucy M. Browning et al.   NUTRITION RESEARCH REVIEWS

The Effect of Obesity and Weight Loss on Aortic Pulse Wave Velocity as Assessed by Magnetic Resonance Imaging

(2010) Oliver J. Rider et al.   Obesity

The Impact of Obesity on the Left Ventricle

(2010) Evrim B. Turkbey et al.   JACC-Cardiovascular Imaging

Central Obesity and Multivariable Cardiovascular Risk as Assessed by the Framingham Prediction Scores

(2009) Satvinder S. Dhaliwal et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY

The differential association between various anthropometric indices of obesity and subclinical atherosclerosis

(2009) Raymond T. Yan et al.   ATHEROSCLEROSIS

Waist Circumference and Waist-to-Height Ratio as Predictors of Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Korean Adults

(2009) Sung-Hee Park et al.   CIRCULATION JOURNAL

Association of Multiple Anthropometrics of Overweight and Obesity With Incident Heart Failure

(2009) Laura R. Loehr et al.   Circulation-Heart Failure

Is the association of type II diabetes with waist circumference or waist-to-hip ratio stronger than that with body mass index?

(2009) Q Qiao et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

Waist circumference, body mass index and waist to hip ratio for prediction of the metabolic syndrome in Chinese

(2009) F. Wang et al.   NUTRITION METABOLISM AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES

Prediction of hypertension by different anthropometric indices in adults: the change in estimate approach

(2009) Nguyen T Tuan et al.   PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITION

Arterial stiffness in relation to subclinical atherosclerosis

(2008) A. Wykretowicz et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

Association of central obesity with early Carotid intima-media thickening is independent of that from other risk factors

(2008) V Maher et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBESITY

Indices of abdominal obesity are better discriminators of cardiovascular risk factors than BMI: a meta-analysis

(2008) Crystal Man Ying Lee et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

BMI vs. Waist Circumference for Identifying Vascular Risk

(2008) Matthew S. Freiberg et al.   Obesity

Does the relationship between waist circumference, morbidity and mortality depend on measurement protocol for waist circumference?

(2007) R. Ross et al.   Obesity Reviews