OBJECTIVE To describe the impact of abdominal obesity and hepatic insulin resistance on phase-specific glycemic responses in older women. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We studied 23 healthy older women (60-88 years old). Abdominal obesity was defined by an abdominal circumference > or =95 cm. Plasma glucose and insulin were measured in response to a 3-h oral glucose tolerance test. Insulin supp...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC) and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) measurements in diagnosing abdominal visceral obesity. METHODS BMI, WC, and WHR were assessed in 690 Chinese adults (305 men and 385 women) and compared with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) measurements of abdominal visceral adipose tissue (VA). Receiver opera...

OBJECTIVES To describe the patterns and trends in waist circumference and abdominal obesity for those aged 70-89 contrasting the standard and new age-related cut-points, and to investigate how they vary with time, age and educational level. METHODS The subjects were 7129 men and 9244 women aged 70-89 years who participated in the Health Survey for England during 1993-2010. The outcome measure...

OBJECTIVE To investigate variables potentially associated with abdominal obesity among childbearing-age women. METHODS A total of 781 women were studied based on data from the Nutrition and Health Survey conducted in 1996 in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Abdominal obesity was defined as waist girth (WG) > 80 cm or waist:hips girth ratio (WHR) > 0.85. Statistical analysis involve...

This study evaluated the prevalence of general and abdominal obesity among students of the University for Development Studies, School of Medicine and Health Sciences (UDS-SMHS), Tamale, Ghana. Also, lifestyle risk factors for the two obesity indices were investigated. This study was conducted among a sample of 646 students. Anthropometric measures of weight, height, and waist circumference were...

Introduction The health hazards of abdominal obesity were documented several decades ago when, in 1947, a French physician by the name of Dr. Jean Vague published in Presse Médicale the results of his clinical observations on the “android” type of obesity (“apple shape”) [1]. Vague was the first to suggest that android obesity was the high-risk form of obesity. In contrast, he proposed that “gy...

OBJECTIVES To examine sex-specific disparities in total and abdominal obesity prevalence across 6 ethnic-immigrant groups and explore whether the observed differences were attributable to diet and physical activity (PA). METHODS Data were from 4331 respondents age 18-64 from the 2003-2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Sex-specific multiple logistic regression analyses were...

BACKGROUND Although there is substantial evidence of differential hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity in both generalized and abdominal obesity, consistent trends in obesity-related HPA axis perturbations have yet to be identified. OBJECTIVES To systematically review the existing literature on HPA activity in obesity, identify possible explanations for inconsistencies in the li...

To assess overall and abdominal obesity and their relation to periodontal disease among young adults, body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) were measured and clinical attachment loss (CAL), gingival index (GI) and Community Periodontal Index (CPI) were estimated. The sample comprised 380 adults (170 males and 210 females) aged 20-26 years. There was a significant correlation betwee...

BACKGROUND Obesity and abdominal obesity are associated independently with morbidity and mortality. Physical activity attenuates these risks. We examined trends in obesity, abdominal obesity, physical activity, and caloric intake in US adults from 1988 to 2010. METHODS Univariate and multivariate analyses were performed using National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data. RESULTS Av...