Sex- and Age-Specific Optimal Anthropometric Indices as Screening Tools for Metabolic Syndrome in Chinese Adults

Waist-to-height ratio is better than body mass index and waist circumference as a screening criterion for metabolic syndrome in Han Chinese adults

(2017) Hui Yang et al.   MEDICINE

Comparison of anthropometric indices for predicting the risk of metabolic syndrome and its components in Chinese adults: a prospective, longitudinal study

(2017) Haoyu Wang et al.   BMJ Open

Anthropometric and metabolic indices in assessment of type and severity of dyslipidemia

(2017) Muhammad Zaid et al.   Journal of Physiological Anthropology

Body roundness index and body adiposity index: two new anthropometric indices to identify metabolic syndrome among Chinese postmenopausal women

(2016) P. J. Liu et al.   CLIMACTERIC

Body-mass index and all-cause mortality: individual-participant-data meta-analysis of 239 prospective studies in four continents

(2016) Emanuele Di Angelantonio et al.   LANCET

The feasibility of two new anthropometric indices to identify hypertension in rural China

(2016) Ye Chang et al.   MEDICINE

Feasibility of body roundness index for identifying a clustering of cardiometabolic abnormalities compared to BMI, waist circumference and other anthropometric indices

(2016) Simiao Tian et al.   MEDICINE

Association of a New Measure of Obesity with Hypertension and Health-Related Quality of Life

(2016) Wankyo Chung et al.   PLoS One

Usefulness of Measuring Both Body Mass Index and Waist Circumference for the Estimation of Visceral Adiposity and Related Cardiometabolic Risk Profile (from the INSPIRE ME IAA Study)

(2015) Julie-Anne Nazare et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY

A body shape index and body roundness index: two new body indices to identify diabetes mellitus among rural populations in northeast China

(2015) Ye Chang et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

Conicity Index and Waist-to-Hip Ratio Are Superior Obesity Indices in Predicting 10-Year Cardiovascular Risk Among Men and Women

(2015) Nima Motamed et al.   CLINICAL CARDIOLOGY

Visceral abdominal fat accumulation predicts the conversion of metabolically healthy obese subjects to an unhealthy phenotype

(2015) Y-C Hwang et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBESITY

Body shape index in comparison with other anthropometric measures in prediction of total and cause-specific mortality

(2015) Klodian Dhana et al.   JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH

Body shape index versus body mass index as correlates of health risk in young healthy sedentary men

(2015) Marzena Malara et al.   Journal of Translational Medicine

Predictive Power of a Body Shape Index for Development of Diabetes, Hypertension, and Dyslipidemia in Japanese Adults: A Retrospective Cohort Study

(2015) Misuzu Fujita et al.   PLoS One

Body composition and physical activity in Italian university students

(2014) Luciana Zaccagni et al.   Journal of Translational Medicine

Dynamic Association of Mortality Hazard with Body Shape

(2014) Nir Y. Krakauer et al.   PLoS One

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

(2014) Yin Bun Cheung   PLoS One

Waist-to-height ratio is an appropriate index for identifying cardiometabolic risk in Chinese individuals with normal body mass index and waist circumference 腰臀比是鉴别体重指数和腰围正常的中国人群的心血管代谢风险的适宜指标

(2014) Qihan Zhu et al.   Journal of Diabetes

Metabolic mediators of the effects of body-mass index, overweight, and obesity on coronary heart disease and stroke: a pooled analysis of 97 prospective cohorts with 1·8 million participants

(2013)   LANCET

Relationships between body roundness with body fat and visceral adipose tissue emerging from a new geometrical model

(2013) Diana M. Thomas 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

Ethnic influences on the relations between abdominal subcutaneous and visceral adiposity, liver fat, and cardiometabolic risk profile: the International Study of Prediction of Intra-Abdominal Adiposity and Its Relationship With Cardiometabolic Risk/Intra-Abdominal Adiposity

(2012) Julie-Anne Nazare et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

The Diagnosis and Management of Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: Practice Guideline by the American Gastroenterological Association, American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, and American College of Gastroenterology

(2012) Naga Chalasani et al.   GASTROENTEROLOGY

Measuring Adiposity in Patients: The Utility of Body Mass Index (BMI), Percent Body Fat, and Leptin

(2012) Nirav R. Shah et al.   PLoS One

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

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

Waist-to-height ratio, waist circumference, and body mass index as indices of cardiometabolic risk among 36,642 Taiwanese adults

(2011) Wen-Cheng Li et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

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

Body Configuration as a Predictor of Mortality: Comparison of Five Anthropometric Measures in a 12 Year Follow-Up of the Norwegian HUNT 2 Study

(2011) Halfdan Petursson et al.   PLoS One

Persistent Increase of Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome Among U.S. Adults: NHANES III to NHANES 1999-2006

(2010) A. Mozumdar et al.   DIABETES CARE

From the metabolic syndrome to NAFLD or vice versa?

(2010) Ester Vanni et al.   DIGESTIVE AND LIVER DISEASE

Trunk Fat Is Associated With Increased Serum Levels of Alanine Aminotransferase in the United States

(2010) Constance E. Ruhl et al.   GASTROENTEROLOGY

Harmonizing the Metabolic Syndrome

(2009) K.G.M.M. Alberti et al.   CIRCULATION

Body fat distribution and noncommunicable diseases in populations: overview of the 2008 WHO Expert Consultation on Waist Circumference and Waist–Hip Ratio

(2009) C Nishida et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

Waist circumference and waist/hip ratio in relation to all-cause mortality, cancer and sleep apnea

(2009) J C Seidell   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

Gender differences in insulin resistance, body composition, and energy balance

(2009) Eliza B. Geer et al.   Gender Medicine

Anthropometric indices as the predictors of trunk obesity in Chinese young adults: Receiver operating characteristic analyses

(2008) Li-ming Li et al.   ANNALS OF HUMAN BIOLOGY

Determining the Waist Circumference in African Americans Which Best Predicts Insulin Resistance

(2008) Anne E. Sumner et al.   Obesity

Alterations in Adipose Tissue and Hepatic Lipid Kinetics in Obese Men and Women With Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

(2007) Elisa Fabbrini et al.   GASTROENTEROLOGY