Published in Am J Clin Nutr on October 01, 2002
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Anthropometry measures and prevalence of obesity in the urban adult population of Cameroon: an update from the Cameroon Burden of Diabetes Baseline Survey. BMC Public Health (2006) 1.74
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Interethnic differences in the accuracy of anthropometric indicators of obesity in screening for high risk of coronary heart disease. Int J Obes (Lond) (2009) 1.30
Comparison of body mass index and waist circumference as predictors of cardiometabolic health in a population of young Canadian adults. Diabetol Metab Syndr (2010) 1.26
Comparison of isocaloric very low carbohydrate/high saturated fat and high carbohydrate/low saturated fat diets on body composition and cardiovascular risk. Nutr Metab (Lond) (2006) 1.22
Different anthropometric adiposity measures and their association with cardiovascular disease risk factors: a meta-analysis. Neth Heart J (2012) 1.18
The combined relations of adiposity and smoking on mortality. Am J Clin Nutr (2008) 1.17
Prediction of hypertension by different anthropometric indices in adults: the change in estimate approach. Public Health Nutr (2009) 1.16
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Prescreening tools for diabetes and obesity-associated dyslipidaemia: comparing BMI, waist and waist hip ratio. The D.E.S.I.R. Study. Eur J Clin Nutr (2006) 1.06
Longitudinal paths to the metabolic syndrome: can the incidence of the metabolic syndrome be predicted? The Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci (2009) 1.05
Waist circumference and body mass index as predictors of health care costs. PLoS One (2008) 1.05
Waist worries. Am J Clin Nutr (2002) 1.04
Waist to hip ratio and trunk to extremity fat (DXA) are better surrogates for IMCL and for visceral fat respectively than for subcutaneous fat in adolescent girls. Nutr Metab (Lond) (2010) 1.02
Relationship of abdominal obesity with alcohol consumption at population scale. Eur J Nutr (2007) 0.99
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Health Canada's new guidelines for body weight classification in adults: challenges and concerns. CMAJ (2004) 0.96
Waist circumference threshold values for type 2 diabetes risk. J Diabetes Sci Technol (2009) 0.95
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Body mass index, waist circumference, and cardiometabolic risk factors in young and middle-aged Chinese women. J Zhejiang Univ Sci B (2010) 0.92
Factors Associated with the Prevalence of Diabetes Mellitus Among Elderly Men and Women Living in Mediterranean Islands: The MEDIS Study. Rev Diabet Stud (2009) 0.92
Waist circumference is the best index for obesity-related cardiovascular disease risk in individuals with spinal cord injury. J Neurotrauma (2013) 0.92
Waist circumference a good indicator of future risk for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. BMC Public Health (2012) 0.91
The Association of Sleep Disorder, Obesity Status, and Diabetes Mellitus among US Adults-The NHANES 2009-2010 Survey Results. Int J Endocrinol (2013) 0.90
What is an attractive body? Using an interactive 3D program to create the ideal body for you and your partner. PLoS One (2012) 0.89
Longitudinal anthropometric patterns among HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected women. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr (2008) 0.89
Does inflammation determine whether obesity is metabolically healthy or unhealthy? The aging perspective. Mediators Inflamm (2012) 0.89
Measures of adiposity and cardiovascular disease risk factors, New York City Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2004. Prev Chronic Dis (2011) 0.88
The correlation between waist circumference and ESC cardiovascular risk score: data from the German metabolic and cardiovascular risk project (GEMCAS). Clin Res Cardiol (2008) 0.88
A body shape index and body roundness index: two new body indices to identify diabetes mellitus among rural populations in northeast China. BMC Public Health (2015) 0.87
Dietary magnesium intake is related to metabolic syndrome in older Americans. Eur J Nutr (2008) 0.87
Waist Circumference, Weight, and Body Mass Index of Iranians based on National Non-Communicable Disease Risk Factors Surveillance. Iran J Public Health (2012) 0.87
Predictors of metabolic monitoring among schizophrenia patients with a new episode of second-generation antipsychotic use in the Veterans Health Administration. BMC Psychiatry (2009) 0.86
Anthropometric cutoff values for detecting metabolic abnormalities in Jordanian adults. Diabetes Metab Syndr Obes (2010) 0.86
Overweight and Obesity among Palestinian Adults: Analyses of the Anthropometric Data from the First National Health and Nutrition Survey (1999-2000). J Obes (2012) 0.86
The relation between body fat distribution and cardiovascular risk factors in patients with schizophrenia: a cross-sectional pilot study. Prim Care Companion J Clin Psychiatry (2005) 0.85
Role of lifestyle variables on the lipid profile of selected South Indian subjects. Indian Heart J (2012) 0.84
Relationship between anthropometric variables and nutrient intake in apparently healthy male elderly individuals: a study from Pakistan. Nutr J (2011) 0.84
The Prevalence of Diabetes and Prediabetes in the Adult Population of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia- A Community-Based Survey. PLoS One (2016) 0.84
Performance of body mass index in predicting diabetes and hypertension in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. Ann Saudi Med (2009) 0.83
Ultrasound estimates of visceral and subcutaneous-abdominal adipose tissues in infancy. J Obes (2013) 0.83
Eating quickly is associated with waist-to-height ratio among Japanese adolescents: a cross-sectional survey. Arch Public Health (2016) 0.83
Lower-extremity muscle atrophy and fat infiltration after chronic spinal cord injury. J Musculoskelet Neuronal Interact (2015) 0.82
Fat distribution and mortality: the AGES-Reykjavik Study. Obesity (Silver Spring) (2015) 0.82
Relationships of obesity and fat distribution with atherothrombotic risk factors: baseline results from the Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation 2 Diabetes (BARI 2D) trial. Obesity (Silver Spring) (2009) 0.82
Associations of self-reported and actigraphy-assessed sleep characteristics with body mass index and waist circumference in adults: moderation by gender. Sleep Med (2013) 0.82
Defining body fatness in adolescents: a proposal of the AFAD-A classification. PLoS One (2013) 0.82
Changes in waist circumference and body mass index in the US CARDIA cohort: fixed-effects associations with self-reported experiences of racial/ethnic discrimination. J Biosoc Sci (2012) 0.82
Comparing the Ability of Anthropometric Indicators in Identifying Metabolic Syndrome in HIV Patients. PLoS One (2016) 0.81
The Correlations between Extremity Circumferences with Total and Regional Amounts of Skeletal Muscle and Muscle Strength in Obese Women with Type 2 Diabetes. Diabetes Metab J (2011) 0.81
Measuring body composition in individuals with intellectual disability: a scoping review. J Obes (2013) 0.80
Repletion of TNFα or leptin in calorically restricted mice suppresses post-restriction hyperphagia. Dis Model Mech (2011) 0.80
Waist circumference and the risk of hypertension and prediabetes among Filipino women. Eur J Nutr (2012) 0.80
Increased body mass and depressive symptomatology are associated with hypercholesterolemia, among elderly individuals; results from the MEDIS study. Lipids Health Dis (2009) 0.80
Association of Neck Circumference with Obesity in Female College Students. Open Access Maced J Med Sci (2015) 0.80
The impact of weight loss on health-related quality-of-life: implications for cost-effectiveness analyses. Qual Life Res (2013) 0.79
Reducing morbidity and mortality in high risk patients with statins. Vasc Health Risk Manag (2009) 0.79
Predicting waist circumference from body mass index. BMC Med Res Methodol (2012) 0.79
Comparison of the performance of two measures of central adiposity among apparently healthy Nigerians using the receiver operating characteristic analysis. Indian J Endocrinol Metab (2011) 0.79
Anthropometric and biochemical characteristics of patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver diagnosed by non-invasive diagnostic methods. Med Arch (2014) 0.79
Blood pressure in relation to general and central adiposity among 500 000 adult Chinese men and women. Int J Epidemiol (2015) 0.79
Adiposity and blood pressure among 55 000 relatively lean rural adults in southwest of China. J Hum Hypertens (2015) 0.79
Is waist circumference a better predictor of blood pressure, insulin resistance and blood lipids than body mass index in young Chilean adults? BMC Public Health (2012) 0.79
Association between Urinary Bisphenol A and Waist Circumference in Korean Adults. Toxicol Res (2014) 0.78
Neck Circumference and Incidence of Diabetes Mellitus over 10 Years in the Korean Genome and Epidemiology Study (KoGES). Sci Rep (2015) 0.78
Cut-Off Values of Visceral Adiposity to Predict NAFLD in Brazilian Obese Adolescents. J Nutr Metab (2013) 0.78
High prevalence of being Overweight and Obese HIV-infected persons, before and after 24 months on early ART in the ANRS 12136 Temprano Trial. AIDS Res Ther (2016) 0.78
Associations of subjective vitality with DNA damage, cardiovascular risk factors and physical performance. Acta Physiol (Oxf) (2014) 0.78
Sex difference of type 2 diabetes affected by abdominal obesity versus overall obesity. Yonsei Med J (2010) 0.78
Left ventricular mass, abdominal circumference and age: the Fels longitudinal study. J Nutr Health Aging (2009) 0.77
Is the 90th Percentile Adequate? The Optimal Waist Circumference Cutoff Points for Predicting Cardiovascular Risks in 124,643 15-Year-Old Taiwanese Adolescents. PLoS One (2016) 0.77
Association of abdominal circumference with serum nitric oxide concentration in healthy population. Environ Health Prev Med (2006) 0.77
Rates and predictors of progression to esophageal carcinoma in a large population-based Barrett's esophagus cohort. Gastrointest Endosc (2016) 0.77
Body size and risk of spontaneous abortion among danish pregnancy planners. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol (2014) 0.77
Change in prevalence of restrictive lung impairment in the U.S. population and associated risk factors: the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 1988-1994 and 2007-2010. Multidiscip Respir Med (2015) 0.77
Rimonabant: the evidence for its use in the treatment of obesity and the metabolic syndrome. Core Evid (2008) 0.76
Changes in body weight, body composition and cardiovascular risk factors after long-term nutritional intervention in patients with severe mental illness: an observational study. BMC Psychiatry (2011) 0.76
Relation of components of the metabolic syndrome to left ventricular geometry in hispanic and non-hispanic black adults. Am J Cardiovasc Dis (2011) 0.76
The relationship of adiposity and mortality among people with diabetes in the US general population: a prospective cohort study. BMJ Open (2014) 0.76
Prevalence of dyslipidemia according to the nutritional status in a representative sample of São Paulo. Arq Bras Cardiol (2014) 0.76
Total and Abdominal Adiposity and Hypertension in Indigenous Women in Midwest Brazil. PLoS One (2016) 0.75
Lipid profile in relation to anthropometric indices and insulin resistance in overweight women with polycystic ovary syndrome. Health Promot Perspect (2013) 0.75
The Relation between Early Pregnancy Anthropometric Indices among Primiparous Women and Macrosomia. J Caring Sci (2012) 0.75
Waist-to-height ratio is an effective indicator for comprehensive cardiovascular health. Sci Rep (2017) 0.75
Fat tissue and inflammation in patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis. Clin Kidney J (2016) 0.75
Reappraisal of waist circumference cutoff value according to general obesity. Nutr Metab (Lond) (2016) 0.75
Waist related anthropometric measures - simple and useful predictors of coronary artery disease in women. Int J Physiol Pathophysiol Pharmacol (2014) 0.75
The metabolic syndrome: prevalence and associated risk factor findings in the US population from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-1994. Arch Intern Med (2003) 10.84
Short sleep duration as a risk factor for hypertension: analyses of the first National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Hypertension (2006) 8.72
Low relative skeletal muscle mass (sarcopenia) in older persons is associated with functional impairment and physical disability. J Am Geriatr Soc (2002) 8.28
Inadequate sleep as a risk factor for obesity: analyses of the NHANES I. Sleep (2005) 8.15
Myths, presumptions, and facts about obesity. N Engl J Med (2013) 5.39
Effects of an oral ghrelin mimetic on body composition and clinical outcomes in healthy older adults: a randomized trial. Ann Intern Med (2008) 4.85
Dual energy X-Ray absorptiometry body composition reference values from NHANES. PLoS One (2009) 4.29
Sleep duration as a risk factor for diabetes incidence in a large U.S. sample. Sleep (2007) 4.14
Incretin levels and effect are markedly enhanced 1 month after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery in obese patients with type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Care (2007) 3.97
Total body skeletal muscle and adipose tissue volumes: estimation from a single abdominal cross-sectional image. J Appl Physiol (1985) (2004) 3.59
Development of bioelectrical impedance analysis prediction equations for body composition with the use of a multicomponent model for use in epidemiologic surveys. Am J Clin Nutr (2003) 3.40
Adipose tissue in muscle: a novel depot similar in size to visceral adipose tissue. Am J Clin Nutr (2005) 3.40
Body mass index and waist circumference independently contribute to the prediction of nonabdominal, abdominal subcutaneous, and visceral fat. Am J Clin Nutr (2002) 3.33
Outcomes of minor and subsyndromal depression among elderly patients in primary care settings. Ann Intern Med (2006) 3.27
Re-engineering systems for the treatment of depression in primary care: cluster randomised controlled trial. BMJ (2004) 3.23
Depression and obesity. Biol Psychiatry (2003) 3.23
A survey of the genetics of stomach, liver, and adipose gene expression from a morbidly obese cohort. Genome Res (2011) 3.00
Total-body skeletal muscle mass: estimation by a new dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry method. Am J Clin Nutr (2002) 2.96
Obesity paradox in cancer: new insights provided by body composition. Am J Clin Nutr (2014) 2.95
Comparisons of waist circumferences measured at 4 sites. Am J Clin Nutr (2003) 2.78
Low dose leptin administration reverses effects of sustained weight-reduction on energy expenditure and circulating concentrations of thyroid hormones. J Clin Endocrinol Metab (2002) 2.76
Independent association of insulin resistance with larger amounts of intermuscular adipose tissue and a greater acute insulin response to glucose in African American than in white nondiabetic women. Am J Clin Nutr (2005) 2.72
QDR 4500A dual-energy X-ray absorptiometer underestimates fat mass in comparison with criterion methods in adults. Am J Clin Nutr (2005) 2.66
Visceral adipose tissue: relations between single-slice areas and total volume. Am J Clin Nutr (2004) 2.57
Executive dysfunction and the course of geriatric depression. Biol Psychiatry (2005) 2.56
A computational model to determine energy intake during weight loss. Am J Clin Nutr (2010) 2.55
Energy balance and its components: implications for body weight regulation. Am J Clin Nutr (2012) 2.51
Food reinforcement and eating: a multilevel analysis. Psychol Bull (2007) 2.32
Race-ethnicity-specific waist circumference cutoffs for identifying cardiovascular disease risk factors. Am J Clin Nutr (2005) 2.30
Bias in estimates of quantitative-trait-locus effect in genome scans: demonstration of the phenomenon and a method-of-moments procedure for reducing bias. Am J Hum Genet (2002) 2.25
Missing data in randomized clinical trials for weight loss: scope of the problem, state of the field, and performance of statistical methods. PLoS One (2009) 2.21
Adipose tissue quantification by imaging methods: a proposed classification. Obes Res (2003) 2.19
Air displacement plethysmography: validation in overweight and obese subjects. Obes Res (2005) 2.07
Remission in depressed geriatric primary care patients: a report from the PROSPECT study. Am J Psychiatry (2005) 2.04
Neuropeptide Y5 receptor antagonism does not induce clinically meaningful weight loss in overweight and obese adults. Cell Metab (2006) 2.02
Is percentage body fat differentially related to body mass index in Hispanic Americans, African Americans, and European Americans? Am J Clin Nutr (2003) 2.01
Waist circumference correlates with metabolic syndrome indicators better than percentage fat. Obesity (Silver Spring) (2006) 2.00
Sleep duration associated with mortality in elderly, but not middle-aged, adults in a large US sample. Sleep (2008) 1.98
Yield of contact investigations in households of patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis: systematic review and meta-analysis. Clin Infect Dis (2013) 1.98
Association of upper trunk and visceral adipose tissue volume with insulin resistance in control and HIV-infected subjects in the FRAM study. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr (2007) 1.98
Recombinant variant of ciliary neurotrophic factor for weight loss in obese adults: a randomized, dose-ranging study. JAMA (2003) 1.97
The acyclic CB1R inverse agonist taranabant mediates weight loss by increasing energy expenditure and decreasing caloric intake. Cell Metab (2008) 1.94
Waist Circumference and Cardiometabolic Risk: a Consensus Statement from Shaping America's Health: Association for Weight Management and Obesity Prevention; NAASO, the Obesity Society; the American Society for Nutrition; and the American Diabetes Association. Obesity (Silver Spring) (2007) 1.87
Lifestyle behaviors associated with lower risk of having the metabolic syndrome. Metabolism (2004) 1.87
Canaries in the coal mine: a cross-species analysis of the plurality of obesity epidemics. Proc Biol Sci (2010) 1.86
Comparison of dual-energy x-ray absorptiometric and anthropometric measures of adiposity in relation to adiposity-related biologic factors. Am J Epidemiol (2010) 1.84
Body-size dependence of resting energy expenditure can be attributed to nonenergetic homogeneity of fat-free mass. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab (2002) 1.82
Scaling of body composition to height: relevance to height-normalized indexes. Am J Clin Nutr (2011) 1.81
Self-report-based estimates of energy intake offer an inadequate basis for scientific conclusions. Am J Clin Nutr (2013) 1.79
Adipose tissue distribution is different in type 2 diabetes. Am J Clin Nutr (2009) 1.78
Percentage body fat ranges associated with metabolic syndrome risk: results based on the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1988-1994). Am J Clin Nutr (2003) 1.75
Changes in childhood food consumption patterns: a cause for concern in light of increasing body weights. Am J Clin Nutr (2003) 1.72
Comparison of visceral adipose tissue mass in adult African Americans and whites. Obes Res (2005) 1.71
Smaller organ mass with greater age, except for heart. J Appl Physiol (1985) (2009) 1.70
Patients' depression treatment preferences and initiation, adherence, and outcome: a randomized primary care study. Psychiatr Serv (2009) 1.70
Directly observed antiretroviral therapy improves adherence and viral load in drug users attending methadone maintenance clinics: a randomized controlled trial. Drug Alcohol Depend (2010) 1.67
Waist circumference and abdominal adipose tissue distribution: influence of age and sex. Am J Clin Nutr (2005) 1.64
Comparison of dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry and magnetic resonance imaging-measured adipose tissue depots in HIV-infected and control subjects. Am J Clin Nutr (2008) 1.63
Independent associations of insulin resistance with high whole-body intermuscular and low leg subcutaneous adipose tissue distribution in obese HIV-infected women. Am J Clin Nutr (2007) 1.63
Predictors of attrition and weight loss success: Results from a randomized controlled trial. Behav Res Ther (2009) 1.59
Intermuscular adipose tissue-free skeletal muscle mass: estimation by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry in adults. J Appl Physiol (1985) (2004) 1.57
Measurement of percentage of body fat in 411 children and adolescents: a comparison of dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry with a four-compartment model. Pediatrics (2004) 1.55
Does body mass index adequately convey a patient's mortality risk? JAMA (2013) 1.54
Metabolic syndrome in normal-weight Americans: new definition of the metabolically obese, normal-weight individual. Diabetes Care (2004) 1.54
Hierarchical linear models for the development of growth curves: an example with body mass index in overweight/obese adults. Stat Med (2003) 1.53
Obesity and quality of life: mediating effects of pain and comorbidities. Obes Res (2003) 1.52
Weight criticism during physical activity, coping skills, and reported physical activity in children. Pediatrics (2002) 1.51
Sex and race differences in fat distribution among Asian, African-American, and Caucasian prepubertal children. J Clin Endocrinol Metab (2002) 1.51
Predicting fat percent by skinfolds in racial groups: Durnin and Womersley revisited. Med Sci Sports Exerc (2011) 1.48
Small organs with a high metabolic rate explain lower resting energy expenditure in African American than in white adults. Am J Clin Nutr (2006) 1.48
Total-body skeletal muscle mass: estimation by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry in children and adolescents. Am J Clin Nutr (2006) 1.48
Volume estimates by imaging methods: model comparisons with visible woman as the reference. Obes Res (2003) 1.46
Determinants of leptin gene expression in fat depots of lean mice. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol (2002) 1.45
Physiological models of body composition and human obesity. Nutr Metab (Lond) (2007) 1.43
Ethnicity-related skeletal muscle differences across the lifespan. Am J Hum Biol (2009) 1.42