BACKGROUND The higher risk of type 2 diabetes in persons with a high waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) or waist-to-thigh ratio (WTR) has mostly been attributed to increased visceral fat accumulation. However, smaller hip or thigh circumference may also explain the predictive value of the WHR or WTR for type 2 diabetes. OBJECTIVE This study considered prospectively the association of hip and thigh circ...

BACKGROUND The possible role of neck circumference (NC) for screening childhood obesity and its complication is not well characterized. AIM To assess NC and to explore its increase as risk factor with metabolic syndrome (MS) variables. METHODS Cross sectional case-control study included 50 obese children (BMI ≥95(th) percentile) and 50 healthy (BMI 15(th)-‹85(th) percentile). All were subje...

BACKGROUND Mounting epidemiological evidence suggests that night shift work may contribute to the etiology of increased body weight. The present study aimed to examine association between rotating night shift work and body mass index (BMI), and abdominal adiposity respectively among nurses and midwives. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted among 724 female nurses and midwives, aged 4...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to determine the level of adiposity and obesity in Polish adolescents and compare the results with earlier studies conducted in this population as well as those carried out in other populations. METHODS The study group consisted of 456 boys and 514 girls aged 14-18 years living in Cracow chosen from randomly selected secondary schools....

A number of intervention studies have reported that the prevalence of obesity may be in part inversely related to dairy food consumption while others report no association. We sought to examine relationships between energy, protein and calcium consumption from dairy foods (milk, yoghurt, cheese, dairy spreads, ice-cream) and adiposity including body mass index (BMI), waist (WC) and hip circumfe...

BACKGROUND Body mass index (BMI), derived by dividing weight (Kg) by the square of height (m), is a useful anthropometric parameter, with multiple applications. It is dependent upon accurate measurement of its component parameters. Where measurement of height and weight with calibrated instruments is not possible, other objective parameters are required to maintain accuracy. OBJECTIVES We aim...

Story in Brief Seasonal differences and growth rates were studied on 60 Hereford and Angus bulls born in the spring and fall calving seasons at Oklahoma State University. Hip height, scrotal circumference and weight measurements were taken over the two IO-month experiments. Season of birth had no influence on scrotal circumference for either Hereford or Angus bulls. Season of birth in Angus bul...

Background: Obesity is a coronary risk factor associated to myocardial infarction although waist to-hip-ratio has shown higher predictive power. Objective: The aim of this study was a Receiver Operating Characteristic anthropometric analysis in infarcted males to identify the strength of association for simple measurements, obesity and indicators such as, waist to-hip-ratios, waist to-height-r...

Background. To reconcile "the obesity paradox," we tested if (1) the contribution of anthropometric measures to mortality was nonlinear and (2) the confounding of hip circumference contributed to the obesity paradox recently observed among diabetic patients. Methods. We analyzed data of diabetic patients attending a community-based prospective, "Tehran lipid and glucose study." In the mortality...