Obesity and Myelomeningocele: Anthropometric Measures

Obesity, anthropometric measures and chronic kidney disease complications.

BACKGROUND/AIMS Anthropometric measures such as body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) have differential associations with incident chronic kidney disease (CKD) and mortality. We examined the associations of BMI and WC with various CKD complications. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of 2,853 adult participants with CKD in the National Health and Nutrition Examinatio...

Anthropometric Measures of Obesity and Risk of Venous Thromboembolism

Objectives—The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of various obesity measures on identification of subjects at risk and their respective risk estimates for VTE in a prospective population-based study. Methods and Results—Measures of body composition such as body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), hip circumference (HC), and waist-hip ratio (WHR) were registered in 6708 subj...

Comparison of anthropometric measures of obesity in childhood allergic asthma: central obesity is most relevant.

BACKGROUND Established indicators of central obesity include waist circumference, waist/height ratio, and the conicity index. Studies using such measures (as opposed to body mass index [BMI] percentiles) to characterize the association between obesity and asthma are lacking, despite the fact that these measures have been shown to be most relevant for many other chronic diseases. OBJECTIVES We...

Anthropometric Measures and the Risk of Coronary Artery Disease

Serum leptin and its relation to anthropometric measures of obesity in pre-diabetic Saudis

BACKGROUND Little information is available on leptin concentrations in individuals with IGT. This study aims to determine and correlate leptin levels to anthropometric measures of obesity in pre-diabetic, (IFG and IGT), type 2 diabetic and normoglycaemic Saudis. METHODS 308 adult Saudis (healthy controls n = 80; pre-diabetes n = 86; Type 2 diabetes n = 142) participated. Anthropometric parame...