Background: Obesity is a major nutritional problem in the world and is a source of multiple co-morbid conditions in metabolic and cardiopulmonary disorders. It is recognized that obesity is associated with impaired lung function and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. This study examines the relation between obesity and lung function using body mass index (BMI) as a measure of...

OBJECTIVE Although obesity is recognized as an important risk of mortality, how the amount and distribution of body fat affect mortality risk is unclear. Furthermore, whether fat distribution confers any additional risk of mortality in addition to fat amount is not understood. METHODS This data linkage cohort study included 16415 participants (8554 females) aged 18 to 89 years from National H...

South Asians are 1/4 of the world's population and have increased susceptibility to central obesity and related cardiometabolic disease. Knowledge of genetic variants affecting risk of central obesity is largely based on genome-wide association studies of common SNPs in Europeans. To evaluate the contribution of DNA sequence variation to the higher levels of central obesity (defined as waist hi...

To systematically and quantitatively review the relation of abdominal obesity, as measured by waist circumference (WC) and waist to hip ratio (WHR), to total gastroesophageal cancer, gastric cancer (GC), and esophageal cancer. PubMed and Web of Science databases were searched for studies assessing the association between abdominal obesity and gastroesophageal cancer (GC and/or esophageal cancer...

CONTEXT Obesity is a well-established risk factor for coronary heart disease (CHD), but whether regional fat distribution contributes independently to risk remains unclear. OBJECTIVE To compare waist-hip ratio (WHR) and waist circumference in determining risk of CHD in women. DESIGN AND SETTING Prospective cohort study among US female registered nurses participating in the Nurses' Health St...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Influence of obesity as determinant of cardiovascular risk factors has not been well studied. To determine association of obesity, measured by body-mass index (BMI), waist-size or waist-hip ratio (WHR), with multiple risk factors in an urban Indian population we performed an epidemiological study. METHODS Randomly selected adults > or = 20 years were studied using str...

We were interested to read the recent commentary provided by Dr. Bronson regarding the practical value of waist–hip ratio (WHR) for office-based prediction of risk for heart disease (1). Although we wholeheartedly agree that such measures as computed tomography (CT), as shown by Goodpaster and colleagues (2), may be superior in quantifying visceral adipose tissue and hence better able to predic...

Physical characteristics, such as breast size and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), function as important features used by human males to assess female attractiveness. Males supposedly pay attention to these features because they serve as cues to fecundity and health. Here, we document that women with higher breast-to-underbreast ratio (large breasts) and women with relatively low WHR (narrow waists) h...

The perceived beauty of a potential partner has traditionally been explained in terms of physical characteristics such as body weight and the waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), while non-physical characteristics have been neglected. This study looked at the contribution of body weight, WHR and personality to ratings of overall female attractiveness. Seventy-six participants rated 30 line drawings that v...

OBJECTIVE To determine the correlation between CRP (C-reactive protein) and Waist to Hip Ratio (WHR) among over weight and obese patients with normal blood pressure. STUDY DESIGN An analytical study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Medical indoor and outpatient clinics of Mayo Hospital, Lahore, from March to August 2013. METHODOLOGY Willing patients with Body Mass Index (BMI) of > 23 kg/m2...