Nowadays, the Waist-Hip Ratio is considered one of the most important indices in predicting the risk of cardiovascular diseases. The usual method for calculating this index is by measuring the waist and hip circumferences with a measuring tape. However, bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) devices are also capable of calculating this ratio. Hence, the goal of this study was to calculate this ...

BACKGROUND Despite the huge proportion of the babies in the developing world being born low birthweight, only about half of the newborns are weighed at birth as weighing scales often tend to be either non-available or defective. OBJECTIVE Designing a nomogram for estimation of birthweight from head circumference (HC) and mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC). METHOD Birthweight, HC and MUAC of...

OBJECTIVE To examine the impact of pregnancy on adolescent growth and adiposity relative to nulligravidas of similar maturation stage. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING The multicenter National Heart, Lung and Blood Growth and Health Study with annual examinations from 1987-1988 through 1996-1997. PARTICIPANTS One thousand eight hundred ninety girls (983 black and 907 white) aged 9...

introduction: head circumference (hc) measurement is one of the important parameter for diagnosis of neurological, developmental disorders and dysmorphic syndromes. recognition of different disorders requires an understanding of normal variation for hc size, in particular, in infancy period with most rapid growth of the brain. because of international and interracial standard chart differences ...

BACKGROUND Obesity has made obesity-related diseases a worldwide problem. This study was undertaken to evaluate the effects of diet-oriented intervention on obese children with hypertension in China and to determine the relationship between anthropometric indexes and hypertension. METHODS A total of 469 obese children, aged 6 to 18 years, were evaluated between January 2001 and December 2005;...

Results: Mean age of participants was 74.96 ± 5.603 years. Mean waist circumference in whole sample measured 96.78 ± 16.85, mean hip circumference was 106.31 ± 19.24, mean waist hip ratio measured 0.91 ± 0.09 and mean body mass index was 27.83 ± 9.8. All of waist circumference, waist hip ratio, systolic blood pressure, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, ischemic heart disease, renal disease were ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the usefulness of neck circumference as an index of excess weight and obesity in young adults while identifying its appropriate cutoff points. METHODS The study comprised 41 male and 109 female students, aged 18-20 years. Anthropometric markers of obesity were measured, including body mass index, waist circumference, hip circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, and compared wi...

The aim of this study was to provide percentile values for several indices of central adiposity in 9- and 15-year-old Swedish children from the European Youth Heart Study (N=1,075). Age- and sex-specific percentiles for waist circumference, hip circumference, waist-to-height ratio and waist-to-hip ratio were provided. No significant differences were found in the proportion of individuals with a...

background: background and objectives: the biological variation of body mass index (bmi) and waist circumference (wc) with age may vary by gender. the objective of this study was to investigate the functional relationship of anthropometric measures with age and sex.methods: the data were collected from a population-based cross-sectional study of 1800 men and 1800 women aged 20-70 years in north...

OBJECTIVES We investigated the correlation between changes in body weight and body composition parameters. METHODS We used the data of 2635 Japanese (40.2±12.2 years) at baseline and at 1-year follow-up from a database of 13522 subjects, which is available at the Okayama Southern Institute of Health in Okayama prefecture, Japan. Body weight, waist circumference at the umbilical level, hip cir...