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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Waist / hip ratio"”.
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Incidence of heart failure in an urban population
… A significant interaction was seen between waist circumference and immigrant status on incident HF hospitalization; the increased HF risk was limited to immigrants with high waist circumference. Elevated body mass index, waist circumference, waist-hip ratio, body fat percentage and weight …
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Monogenic diabetes in large population settings
… use a gene-based burden analysis on BMI adjusted waist hip ratio, to identify novel disease-gene associations. As waist hip ratio can be used as a proxy for unfavourable adiposity, genes associated with this trait often also cause partial lipodystrophy. This analysis identified MIB1 as a novel …
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Metabolic complications resulting from the use of antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected patients
… measures in women on ART. We found that weight, waist circumference, and waist-hip ratio increased, limb skinfold thickness decreased, and the proportion of participants with hypertension and diabetes increased. Longitudinal data was used to describe changes in body fat distribution over a 24 …
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Exercise capacity with special reference to type 2 diabetes
… affect by whole body insulin sensitivity and the waist-hip ratio (Study III). Also, fibre type composition (Study I and III) and capillary density (Study III) contributed to peak exercise capacity. Estimation of VO2peak according to Åstrand sub-maximal exercise testing significantly overestimates …
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Nutrition, Inflammation and Lung Function in Middle-aged Men
… a mean body mass index of 26.3kg/m2 and a mean waist-hip ratio of 0.94. 1779 men had valid baseline lung function measurements by spirometry. Mean percent predicted FEV1 was 92% and mean percent predicted FVC was 96.9%. The baseline current smokers had the greatest decline in FEV1 over 10 years …
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Increased fat-free milk consumption improves weight loss, body composition, metabolic syndrome, and cardiometabolic outcomes in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus
… greater reduction in body weight, body fat mass, waist circumference (WC) and waist-hip ratio after MD. Serum 25- hydoxyvitamin D and HOMA2-B% increased and serum uric acid, parathormone, and glycated hemoglobin concentrations reduced after MD. The consumption of approximately 3 servings of …
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Life style intervention in primary care and aspects on stroke prevention
… factors like smoking, physical inactivity, BMI, waist-hip-ratio (WHR), blood pressure, perceived mental stress and low education at baseline were selected. Association with atrial fibrillation (AF), diabetes and myocardial infarction was tested as survival time free from stroke. Results: Subjects …
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Impact of Physical Activity and Sugar Sweetened Beverage Consumption on Arterial Stiffness
… this study (p>0.05) when examining the relationship between PWV and age, height, weight, waist-hip ratio, body fat percentage, sugarsweetened beverage consumption, and physical activity minutes. Conclusion: Previous research has indicated that there is a relationship between SSB consumption, …
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A randomised controlled trial of a diet and physical activity intervention in prostate cancer patients and related studies.
… aim of this thesis is to present the rationale and methodology of a Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT) to test the efficacy of a 6 month combined dietary and walking intervention on alleviating the Health-Related QoL (HRQoL) issues associated with ADT treatment. Ninety-four men were …
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The use of a genetic strategy to study the role of modulation of oxidative stress by uncoupling proteins 2 and 3 in the pathogenesis of Type 2 Diabetes
… the UCP2-866A variant was associated with lower waist-hip ratio (GX v AA,1.00 [0.06] v 0.98 [0.07]; p=0.003), although also associated with lower insulin secretion (42.6 [24.6] v 35.6 [18.6]; p=0.03). The UCP3 variant was not significantly associated with any metabolic trait. The significant …
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Common risk factors associated with acute myocardial infarction: Population-based studies with a focus on gender differences
… variation of cortisol was associated with high waist-hip ratio solely in women. • Leisure time physical activity was negatively associated with insulin resistance and obesity in both men and women. However, the association with regard to insulin resistance and leisure time physical activity was …
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Influência da variação sazonal no status de 25-hidroxivitamina D de adultos com síndrome metabólica de uma região do Brasil com elevados índices de radiação ultravioleta
… III (NCEP-ATP III) criteria. The 25OHD concentration was considered dependent variable; the independent variables were age, gender, skin color, use of sunscreen, skin type, sun exposure score, ultraviolet index (UVI), geographic location, season, body mass index (BMI), waist-hip ratio (WHR), …
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Obesity and cardiovascular disease. Aspects of methods and susceptibility.
… activity. Body fat distribution as measured by waist hip ratio (WHR) was associated with increased CVD risk. WHR added to the CVD risk in women at all levels of BMI and in men with normal weight. It is concluded that the susceptibility to CVD in obese people differs substantially according to …
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Cardiovascular health, stress and sleep of shift working police officers : a physiological assessment
… after accounting for the covariates of age, sex, waist-hip ratio and lifestyle risk factors. Subjects’ perception of stress was within normal ranges for the majority, likely due to the significant associations found with preferable coping style prevalence. By comparison, poor sleep quality and …
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Effect of Obesity on the Traditional and Emerging Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in African American Women
… assessment of height, weight, BMI, waist circumference, and waist-hip-ratio were determined. An average of two resting blood pressures was taken. Hypertension was defined as a systolic blood pressure ≥ 140 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure ≥ 90 mmHg. Fasting blood levels were drawn of …
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Effect of low glycinin soymilk on body composition, biomarkers of inflammation and oxidative stress and gut microbiota in overweight men
… No effects were detected in BMI (p = 0.721), waist-hip ratio (WHR) (p = 0.454), weight (p = 0.836), triglycerides (p = 0.947), total cholesterol (p = 0.320), plasma leptin (p = 0.655), fatty acid synthase (FAS) (p = 0.976), tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα) (0.61) and C-reactive protein (CRP) …
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A descriptive study of the type 2 diabetic population with hypertriglyceridemia of more than 2.5 mmol/l at presentation with subsequent analysis of their baseline and follow up variables
… baseline TG and HDL-C, baseline BMI and baseline waist circumference (waist/hip ratio could have possibly corrected for different anthropometry), but there was a positive correlation between triglycerides and alcohol intake, (r2=0.224, P=0.012). There was no correlation between baseline …
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Interventions in patients at high cardiovascular risk
… This intervention improved central obesity (waist/hip ratio, p=0.02; body mass index, p=0.008), blood pressure (systolic blood pressure=0.02; diastolic blood pressure, p=0.009) and LDL levels (p=0.03). However, the biological variation of lipids is similar to that in health and remained …
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Un’analisi statistico – economica dell’impatto delle norme WHO su nutrizione e salute
… Mass Index, BMI) e del rapporto vita-fianchi (Waist-hip ratio, WHR).
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First generation Ghanaian migrants in the UK : dietary intake, anthropometric indices and nutrition intervention through the black churches
… habitual diet and body composition of first generation Ghanaian migrants, to validate a food frequency questionnaire specific for Ghanaians, find the ideal body image of Ghanaians and the body size most attractive to Ghanaian males and to conduct a nutrition intervention programme using the Black …
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