background: identifying new ways to decrease adiposity have great importance for human health. we aimed to find out whether l – arginine (arg) and selenium alone or together can increase the effect of hypocaloric diet enriched in legumes (hdel) on anthropometric measures in healthy women with central obesity. methods: this randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial was undertaken in 84 ...

background: the superiority of either of body mass index (bmi), waist circumference (wc), waist-to-hip ratio (whr) and waist-to-height ratio (whtr) for prediction of metabolic syndrome (mets) is remained controversial in asian population. the objective of this study was to compare the discriminative capacity of either of these measures in prediction of non-adipose components of mets. methods: i...

background: waist circumference (wc) is an accurate and simple measure of abdominal obesity as compared to waist–hip ratio (whr). the aim of this study was to determine the correlation between body mass index (bmi) with wc and whr and suggest cutoff points for wc among rural malaysian adults. methods: a cross‑sectional study was conducted among 669 respondents from three villages in tanjung kar...

background: obesity is one of the known risk factors of diabetes. nowadays in parallel with industrialization of societies, changes in lifestyle and diet habits and also decreased physical activity, the prevalence of obesity is increasing. the objective of this study is to evaluate the effect of change in body weight on blood glucose disorders rate after 3 years of tehran lipid and glucose stud...

OBJECTIVE The association between rarely used anthropometric measurements (e.g., mid-upper arm, forearm, and calf circumference) and metabolic syndrome has not been proven. The aim of this study was to assess whether mid-upper arm, forearm, calf, and waist circumferences, as well as waist/height ratio and waist-to-hip ratio, were associated with metabolic syndrome. METHODS We enrolled 387 sub...

background: obesity is a significant risk factor for metabolic disorders including increase in blood pressure. body mass index (bmi), waist circumference (wc) and waist/hip ratio (whr) are simple and effective indicators of obe­sity. the objectives of this study were to examine the relationships between obesity anthropometric indicators and hy­pertension and to identify the best anthropometric ...

BACKGROUND Higher waist circumference and lower hip circumference are both associated with increased cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, despite being directly correlated. The real effects of visceral obesity may therefore be underestimated when hip circumference is not fully taken into account. We hypothesized that adding waist and hip circumference to traditional risk factors would significant...