منابع مشابه
Indices of adiposity.
In a clinical context, the term "overweight" usually connotes adiposity, an excess of body fat. In the absence of any direct or simple indirect methods of measuring total body fat, medical research workers often use formulae (indices) which relate body weight to stature. So far as we know, the uses and limitations of such formulae have never been critically examined. It is obvious that no formu...
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I t is well known that there is a greater prevalence of hypertension in obese than among normal weight subjects. However, not every obese individual is hypertensive, indicating that obesity is a heterogeneous condition. Although excess fatness may contribute to high blood pressure (BP) in obese patients, the best indices of adiposity which relate to BP are still unclear. Kotchen and colleagues ...
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A problem often encountered in large-scale epidemiological studies is the assessment of a person's relative adiposity from very limited data such as measurements of his height and weight only. There have been several papers in recent years, those of Billewicz, Kemsley and Thomson (1962), Kemsley, Billewicz and Thomson (1962), Khosla and Lowe (1967), Evans and Prior (1969), and Florey (1970), wh...
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AIM The relationship between waist circumference (WC) and conventional blood pressure (BP) is independent of other clinical indices of adiposity. As ambulatory BP may offer more prognostic information than conventional BP, we aimed to identify whether indices of central adiposity are associated with ambulatory BP independent of other indices of adiposity. METHODS The relationship between indi...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
سال: 1962
ISSN: 0143-005X
DOI: 10.1136/jech.16.4.183